Distributed Quantum Computing Workshop 2025
October 20th-22nd, 2025

Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

About the workshop

The workshop is focused on the topic of quantum advantage in distributed settings, and the main goal is fostering collaboration among different research groups from different countries. We aim to achieve this by proposing a combination of talks and brainstorming sessions.

This workshop is an activity of HALT - Helsinki Algorithms and Theory.

Registration

If you would like to participate, please send an email to: massimo.equi@aalto.fi

You will receive a link to the registration form.

Registration deadline: Friday, September 26.

Registration is now closed.

Local Information

Once landed at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport, you can easily reach Helsinki city center by either train I or train P in approximately 35 minutes. From there, the metro line brings you close to the most common accommodation choices. Alternatively, many buses and trams are leaving from the central railway station leading.

Public Transports: Tickets and Info

You can buy tickets public transports from the HSL app, or from the physical vending machines located at train stations (airport included) and metro stations.
If you need directions when taking public transports, consulting the HSL website or the HSL app are the your best options.

Dinner

The workshop dinner will be held at 19:00 on Tueasday (October 21) at the Ostrobotnia House, located at the following address:

Museokatu 10
00101 Helsinki

The precise room inside the Ostrobotnia House where dinner will be served is the Jaeger Room (Jääkärihuone).
The easiest way to reach the dinner venue from Aalto University is to take the metro and get off at the Central Railway Station stop, and then take tram 10 from there (direction Pikku Huopalahti via Ruskeasuo).

Please reserve 45 minutes to reach the dinner venue from Aalto University.

Organisers

Program Committee

Contact

For further questions, please send an email to Massimo Equi.

Email: massimo.equi@aalto.fi.

Venue

The event will be held in the Helsinki area, Finland, in the premises of Aalto University located in Otaniemi at the following address:

Maarintie 8
02150 Espoo

The map below shows the exact entrance to the building.


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Workshop program

Monday, October 20th
Time Room Activity
08:45-09:00 AS2 Welcome
09:00-10:30 AS2 Carlos De Gois & Isadora Veeren, INRIA Saclay.
Tutorial: the inflation NPA method and numerical tools
10:30-11:00 Maarintie 8 Lobby Coffee break
11:00-12:00 AS2 Massimo Equi, Aalto University.
Distributed quantum advantage in locally checkable labelling problems
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 AS3 Gopal Pandurangan, University of Houston.
Link to the online session.
15:30-16:00 Maarintie 8 Lobby Coffee break
16:00-17:00 AS3 Lucas Tendick, INRIA Saclay.
Applications of quantum nonlocality, review on related open problems in quantum information theory
Tuesday, October 21th
Time Room Activity
09:00-10:30 AS3 Jukka Suomela, Aalto University.
Tutorial: an overview of distributed computing
10:30-11:00 Maarintie 8 Lobby Coffee break
11:00-12:00 AS3 Jukka Suomela, Aalto University.
Tutorial: an overview of round elimination
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 AS3 Fatemeh Moradi Kalarde, INRIA Saclay.
A potential fermionic advantage over quantum information theory in the LOCAL model
15:30-16:00 Maarintie 8 Lobby Coffee break
16:00-17:00 AS3 Ludovic Noirie, Nokia Bell Labs (Saclay).
Quantum Networks and Algorithms for Distributed Quantum Systems
Wednesday, October 22nd
Time Room Activity
09:00-10:30 TU3 Presentation of open problems
10:30-11:00 Maarintie 8 Lobby Coffee break
11:00-12:00 TU1 and TU3 Discussions on open problems
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 AS3 and TU3 Discussions on open problems
15:30-16:00 Maarintie 8 Lobby Coffee break
16:00-17:00 AS3 and TU3 Discussions on open problems