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The program of the workshop is as follows:

January 12th -

6:30-8:30 pm Welcome reception Hotel Fort Canning

January 13th -

9:30-9:45Thomas Elliott
Opening Address
9:45 -10:15Mile GuThe Quantum and Complexity Science Initiative
10:15-11:00James Crutchfield Thermodynamic Computing: Fast, Cheap, and Under Control
11:00-11:30Coffee
11:30-12:15Sarah MarzenNew methods for continuous-time, discrete-event prediction
12:15-12:35 Liu Qing Optimal stochastic modeling with unitary quantum dynamics
12:40-2:15Lunch
2:15-3:00Geoff Pryde Superpositions of outcomes and operations in stochastic simulations and communication complexity experiments.
3:00 – 3:20 Nora Tischler Quantum devices for classical and quantum memory reduction
3:25 – 3:45 Yuxiang Yang Memory effects in quantum metrology
3:45-4:15Coffee
4:15-6:00Poster Session

January 14th -

9:30 - 10:15Howard Wiseman
Can a Qubit be your Friend?
Why a philosopher would want to have a quantum computer
10:15-10:35Aharon Brodutch Do qubits dream of entangled sheep?
10:40-11:00
Paul Riechers 		Thermodynamic cost of misaligned expectations
11:00-11:30Coffee
11:30-12:15Adan Cabello Quantum correlations from simple assumptions
12:15-12:35 Joshua Morris Selective quantum state tomography
12:35-2:15Lunch
2:15 -3:00Vlatko VedralHow would one test if there are quantum aspects
in human perception?
3:00-3:20Timothy Liew Exciton-polariton reservoir processing
3:25-3:45 Sanjib Ghosh Quantum reservoir processing
3:45-4:15Coffee
4:15-6:00Discussion Session 1

January 15th -

9:30-10:15Man Hong Yung Low-Depth Optical Neural Networks
10:15 -11:00 Daniel Terno Compatibility of classical requirement
11:00 - 11:30Coffee
11:30-11:50 Cheong Siew Ann What Can a Classical Agent Do?
11:55-12:15Chengran Yang
 Learning compressed quantum descriptions of histories
12:20-12:40 Ariadna Venegas-Li Measurement Induced Complexity in Controlled Qubit Processes
12:40-2:15Lunch
2:15-3:00Oscar Dahlsten
Quantum generalizations of feedforward neural networks, design and applications
3:00-3:20 Alec BoydThermodynamics of Machines Learned
3:25-3:45Kishor Bharti Near-term quantum algorithms for linear systems of equations
3:45-4:15Coffee
4:15-6:00Discussion Session 2
7:15 pmConference Dinner at Swissotel Merchant Court

January 16th -

9:30 - 10:15Chiara Marletto
Constructor-based irreversibility in a unitary quantum universe
10:15 – 11:35Andrew Garner
Oracular information and the second law of thermodynamicsT
10:40-11:00 Alexandra Jurgens Functional Thermodynamics for Arbitrary Maxwellian Ratchets
11:00-11:30Coffee
11:30-12:15 Otfried Guehne
Characterizing quantum correlations from marginal information
12:15-12:35 Samuel Loomis Thermal Efficiency of Quantum Memory Compression
12:35-2:15Lunch
2:15 -2:35 Felix Pollock The emergence of agents from quantum dynamics
2:40-3:00Felix BinderHow complex is a quantum stochastic process
3:05-3:25 Chew Lock Yue Maxwell Demon as an agent in work and information processing
3:30-3:50 Nana Liu Adversarial quantum learning: quantum internet,
security and machine learning
3:50-4:20Coffee
4:20-5:30Discussion Session 3
5:30-5:45Mile Gu Closing Remarks