Name: 3rd Workshop on Quantum Computing @ INFN
Start: 2026-02-03T02:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-06T13:30:00+01:00
Location: No location set

3rd Workshop on Quantum Computing @ INFN

from Tuesday, 3 February 2026 (02:00) to Friday, 6 February 2026 (13:30)

Monday, 2 February 2026
Tuesday, 3 February 2026

10:00 Registration

10:00 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
11:00 Institutional Welcome
11:00 - 11:20
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

11:00 Welcome from the Rector of the University of Milano-Bicocca - Marco Orlandi (University of Milano-Bicocca)

11:05 Welcome from the Director of the INFN Unit of Milano-Bicocca - Tommaso Tabarelli De Fatis (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:10 Welcome from the Director of the Bicocca Quantum Technologies (BiQuTe) Centre - Angelo Enrico Lodovico Nucciotti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:15 Welcome from the INFN Executive Committee - Oscar Adriani (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
11:20 Strategy and Insight from INFN Commissions
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

11:20 Quantum Strategy: Europe, Italy and the Italian Quantum Alliance - Elisa Ercolessi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:45 Quantum Technologies @CSN5 - Alberto Quaranta (TIFPA - University of Trento)

12:10 Quantum Activities in CSN4 - Giuseppe Degrassi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:35 Quantum Machine Learning in High-Energy Physics: insights from INFN CSN1 Activities - Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 Foundational studies
14:30 - 16:15
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

14:30 QuEra: Progress towards fault-tolerant quantum computing - Tommaso Macrì (QuEra)

14:50 Entanglement Generation in Uniformly Accelerating Quantum Systems - Riccardo Acquaviva (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:10 Complexity transitions in chaotic quantum systems: Nonstabilizerness, entanglement, and fractal dimension in SYK and random matrix models - Andrea Legramandi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:30 Multipartite entanglement of random states - Giorgia Trotta

15:50 Geometric Aspects of Quantum Entanglement - Roberto Franzosi (DSFTA - Università di Siena)
16:15 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
16:15 - 16:45
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
16:45 Foundational studies
16:45 - 18:30
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

16:45 Statistical mechanics of multipartite entanglement in ‘Hadamard’ quantum state sunmanifolds - Paolo Scarafile (Napoli)

17:10 Gate-based enhancement in dark matter searches with superconducting qubits - Roberto Moretti (University of Milano-Bicocca and INFN Milano-Bicocca)

17:35 Average-computation benchmarking for local expectation values in digital quantum devices - Flavio Baccari

18:00 Floquet Theory applied to Lindbladian Open Quantum Systems - Antonio Sojo López (Universidad de Sevilla)
Wednesday, 4 February 2026
09:00 Quantum Machine Learning
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

09:00 Quantum Generative Models for Fragmentation Functions - Michele Grossi (CERN)

09:20 Quantum Neural Network-enhanced Models For Fast Calorimeter Simulation In ATLAS - Federico Andrea Guillaume Corchia (University of Bologna and INFN Bologna)

09:40 Quantum machine learning applications for classification and simulation tasks at the LHCb experiment - Lorenzo Sestini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:00 Finding the Higgs boson with quantum machine learning - Eric Ballabene (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:20 Boosted Objects in Vector Boson Scattering: from classical to quantum ML prospects - Fabrizio Napolitano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
10:45 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
11:15 Quantum Machine Learning
11:15 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

11:15 QChaiTEA: the quantum-inspired machine learning application of the QTEA library - Alberto Coppi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:35 Sn-based quantum machine learning for multi-object tracking - Matteo Argenton (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:55 Characterization and upgrade of a quantum graph neural network architecture for particle tracking - Concezio Bozzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:15 Ultra-Low-Latency Tree Tensor Network Inference on FPGAs - Lorenzo Borella (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:35 FPGA-Accelerated Quantum Circuit Emulation for Efficient QML models Training - Deborah Volpe (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
14:30 Quantum Simulation
14:30 - 16:15
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

14:30 Nuclear dynamics on digital quantum computers - Alessandro Roggero (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:55 Exploring complex quantum many-body dynamics with QuantumTEA - Darvin Wanisch (University of Padova)

15:20 Quantum Encoding of Polymer Physics - Pietro Faccioli (University of Milano-Bicocca and INFN Milano-Bicocca)

15:45 Collective neutrino oscillations in three flavors on qubit and qutrit processors - Luca Spagnoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
16:15 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
16:15 - 16:45
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
16:45 Technological aspects
16:45 - 18:30
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

16:45 Quantum computing and security. A reasonable worry? - Vincenzo Ciaschini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:05 The Qibo Ecosystem: Integrating Advanced QML with Real-Time Hardware Control - Andrea Papaluca

17:25 Chalmers automatic calibration, a software framework to build collaborations - Michele Faucci Giannelli (Chalmers University of Technology)

17:45 Hybrid workflow compilation for Quantum Natural Gradient optimizer in PennyLane - Simone Gasperini (University of Bologna & INFN)
Thursday, 5 February 2026
09:00 Quantum Machine Learning
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

09:00 Optimizing Complex Quantum Systems with Few Measurements - Leonardo Banchi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:25 Quantum noise modeling through Reinforcement Learning - Simone Bordoni (Sapienza universita di Roma)

09:50 Exploring fixed points and eigenstates of quantum systems with reinforcement learning - María Laura Olivera Atencio (Universidad de Sevilla)

10:15 Quantum reinforcement learning in the presence of thermal dissipation - Jesús Casado Pascual (Universidad de Sevilla)
10:45 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
11:15 Technological aspects
11:15 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

11:15 The Italian landscape of Quantum Computing - Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico di Milano)

11:35 The 25 → 64 Qubits Superconducting Quantum Computer of the HPC National Center @Unina: Physics, Implementation, Operation & Hardware Evolution - Francesco Tafuri (Università di Napoli Federico II)

11:55 Full-Stack Quantum Engineering at Politecnico di Torino: The Lagrange System - Giovanna Turvani (Politecnico di Torino)

12:15 Quantum Computing at CINECA: Integrating a Quantum Accelerator into an HPC Environment - Sara Marzella (Cineca)

12:35 Activities on Quantum Computing in the Salerno Area - Sergio Pagano (Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Salerno and INFN GC Salerno)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
14:30 Technological aspects
14:30 - 16:15
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

14:30 Italian Technological Platforms for Quantum Computing - Francesco Cataliotti (Università di Firenze - CNR)

14:55 Quantum Computers to accelerate the path to FTQC - Cosma Belli

15:20 IBM - towards Quantum Advantage and Error Correction - Davide Moretti Luca Cavallini Vito Sammarco

15:45 VIO, an architecture for scaling superconducting quantum processors - Alessandro Bruno (QuantWare)
16:15 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
16:15 - 16:45
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
16:45 Quantum Simulation
16:45 - 18:30
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

16:45 Lattice Gauge Theory simulations with Quantinuum Systems - Enrico Rinaldi (Quantinuum)

17:05 Local fermion-to-qudit mappings - Rodolfo Carobene (University of Milano-Bicocca and INFN Milano-Bicocca)

17:25 Complex vs. Imaginary Time: Benchmarking Quantum-Inspired Annealing for the SK Spin Glass - Shima Amirentezari (University of Padova)

17:45 Quantum state preparation with polynomial resources: Branched-Subspaces Adiabatic Preparation (B-SAP) - Davide Cugini (Università di Pavia)

18:05 Implementation in a quantum computer and quantum phase classification of an anharmonic Lipkin model. - ALVARO SAIZ CASTILLO (UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA)
Friday, 6 February 2026
09:00 Quantum Machine Learning
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

09:00 Quantum-Enhanced Fraud Detection: A Comparative Study on Real-World Financial Data - Andrea Cacioppo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:20 A new approach to rating scale definition with quantum optimization - Laura Cappelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:40 Quantum image processing and optical neural networks - Simone Roncallo (University of Pavia)
10:00 Technological aspects
10:00 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

10:00 Two-photon interferometry: beyond the boundaries of distinguishability - Fabrizio Sgobba (Università degli studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:20 Integrated Waveguide Source of Squeezed Vacuum for Quantum computation and Gravitational-Wave Detection - Hamza Hasnaoui (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
10:45 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
11:15 Quantum Simulation
11:15 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti
Contributions

11:15 Modelling and Simulation of Dispersively Coupled Resonator–Qubit Systems under Quantum and Semiclassical Drives - Fabio Chiarello (IFN-CNR)

11:40 Maximum Independent Set via Probabilistic and Quantum Cellular Automata - Matteo Grotti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:05 Improving VQE Ground State Accuracy via Soft-Coded Orthogonal Subspace Representations - Marco Intini (Università di Pisa, INFN Pisa)

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