Name: Quantum Applications Workshop 2026
Start: 2026-02-26T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-27T19:20:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Quantum Applications Workshop 2026

from Thursday, 26 February 2026 (08:30) to Friday, 27 February 2026 (19:20)

Monday, 23 February 2026
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Wednesday, 25 February 2026
Thursday, 26 February 2026

08:30 Registrations
Registrations
08:30 - 09:15
Room: Lecture hall 5

09:15 Welcome

09:15 - 09:30
Room: Lecture hall 5
09:30 Keynote speech: Quantum Applications in Financial Institutions - Mario Onorato (Promontory IBM Consulting)
Keynote speech: Quantum Applications in Financial Institutions
- Mario Onorato (Promontory IBM Consulting)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Lecture hall 5
10:00 Introduction to Quantum Computing

10:00 - 11:00
Room: Lecture hall 5

11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
Room: Lecture hall 5

11:20 Introduction to Quantum Computing

11:20 - 13:00
Room: Lecture hall 5

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Lecture hall 5
14:30 Frontiers of Physics
14:30 - 16:10
Room: Lecture hall 5
Contributions

14:30 Quantum Entanglement Beyond Kinematics: A Dynamical Hypothesis in (3,2)-Dimensional Spacetime - Marco Pettini

14:55 Quantum Sensing for Particle Physics: the NAMASSTE R&D Project - Giuseppe Latino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:20 Quantum effective action for the Josephson dynamics - Luca Salasnich (University of Padova and INFN)

15:45 Improving VQE Ground State Accuracy via Soft-Coded Orthogonal Subspace Representations - Marco Intini (Università di Pisa, INFN Pisa)
16:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:30
Room: Lecture hall 5
16:30 Quantum Computing Quantum Information Communication & Criptography
16:30 - 18:15
Room: Lecture hall 5
Contributions

16:30 Learning as the Interface Between Quantum Hardware and AI: From Data‑Driven Quantum Design to Quantum‑Native Models - Matteo Rosati (Università Roma Tre)

16:55 Quantum AI: How Quantum Physics Drives the Next Generation of Secure Artificial Intelligence - Antonio Greco

17:20 Quantum computing: a resource of today or tomorrow? - Roberto Cappuccio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:45 Mixing reveals spectral and topological structure - Stefano Scali (Fujitsu Research)
18:15 Welcome cocktail

18:15 - 19:15
Room: Lecture hall 5

20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Bottega Roots, Via Pantaneto, 58, 53100 Siena
Friday, 27 February 2026

09:30 Introduction to Quantum Computing

09:30 - 10:20
Room: Lecture hall 5

10:20 Introduction to Quantum Computing

10:20 - 11:20
Room: Lecture hall 5

11:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:20 - 11:40
Room: Lecture hall 5

11:40 Quantum Computing for Business applications

11:40 - 12:10
Room: Lecture hall 5
12:10 Quantum Computing Quantum Information Communication & Criptography
12:10 - 13:00
Room: Lecture hall 5
Contributions

12:10 Effective counterdiabatic quantum control - Sandro Wimberger (Università di Parma e Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Milano Bicocca, gruppo Parma))

12:35 La strada verso il vantaggio quantistico: stato dell'arte di IBM Quantum - Federico Mattei (IBM)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Lecture hall 5
14:30 Machine Learning & Quantum Machine Learning
14:30 - 15:20
Room: Lecture hall 5
Contributions

14:30 Quantum machine learning for High Energy Physics - Lorenzo Sestini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:55 Variational quantum circuits: quantum convolutional neural network and quantum GAN - Roberto Cappuccio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
15:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Lecture hall 5
15:40 Frontiers of Physics
15:40 - 17:50
Room: Lecture hall 5
Contributions

15:40 Universal Properties and Phase Diagrams of Quantum Long-Range Systems - Andrea Trombettoni (University of Trieste & INFN)

16:05 Entanglement Properties of Quantum Complex Networks - Lucio De Simone (University of Siena - INFN Perugia)

16:30 Multipartite entanglement generation in inflationary scenarios - Alessio Belfiglio (University of Camerino)

16:55 Entanglement Distance: A Geometric Framework for Efficient Multipartite Entanglement Estimation - Lorenzo Capra (Università degli Studi di Siena)

17:20 Decoherence mitigation via repeated joint weak measurements in entangled two-qubit register - Oleksandr Konovalenko (O.Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics)
17:50 Conclusions

17:50 - 18:50
Room: Lecture hall 5

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