The Quantum Pontiff

The APS March meeting is next week as 10000 physicists invade Portland, Oregon. I hope Powell's bookstore has stocked their science sections well! GQI, the topical group on quantum information, sponsors a good number of sessions at the meeting including sessions with invited talks, focus sessions, and general sessions. Below the fold I'm assembling a list of quantum computing sessions, but before the fold I'd like to point out the invited sessions, which have longer speaking slots where one can actually learn more than the speakers name and research project title, that are sponsored or cosponsored by GQI (also below note the Focus sessions listed below have invited speakers)

• Monday, March 15 8:00am-11:00am Session A8: Quantum Opto-Mechanics
  Room: Portland Ballroom 255
  (Jointly sponsored with DAMOP)
  Invited speakers: Jack Harris, Klemens Hammerer, Philipp Treutlein, Nathaniel Brahms, Keith Schwab
• Monday, March 15 11:15am-2:15pm Session B6: Controlling Dissipation in Quantum Systems
  Room: Portland Ballroom 253
  (Jointly sponsored with DAMOP)
  Invited Speakers: Frank Verstraete, Hans Peter Buechler, Matthias Lettner, Luis A. Orozco, Sergio Boixo
• Monday, March 15 2:30pm-5:30pm Session D4: Quantum Computer Science
  Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
  Invited Speakers: Graeme Smith, Aram Harrow, Ben Reichardt, Sandy Irani, Stephanie Wehner
• Thursday, March 18 11:15am-1:40pm Session W6: Superconducting Qubits
  Room: Portland Ballroom 253
  Invited Speakers: Radoslaw Bialczak, Franco Nori, Leonardo DiCarlo, Sahel Ashhab

Here is the complete list of GQI sponsored or co-sponsored sessions.

Monday, March 15

• 8am Session A8 Quantum Opto-Mechanics
  Room: Portland Ballroom 255
  Invited Speakers: Jack Harris, Klemens Hammerer, Philipp Treutlein, Nathaniel Brahms, Keith Schwab
• 8am Session A26 Focus Session: Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms and Computational Complexity
  Room: D136
  Invited Speakers: Sarvagya Upadhyay
• 11:15am Session B6 Controlling Dissipation in Quantum Systems
  Room: Portland Ballroom 253
  Invited Speakers: Frank Verstraete, Hans Peter Buechler, Matthias Lettner, Luis A. Orozco, Sergio Boixo
• 11:15am Session B26 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Silicon and III-Vs
  Room: D136
  Invited Speakers: Malcolm Carroll
• 2:30pm Session D4 Quantum Computer Science
  Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
  Invited Speakers: Graeme Smith, Aram Harrow, Ben Reichardt, Sandy Irani, Stephanie Wehner
• 2:30pm Session D26 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Silicon
  Room: D136

• 8am Session H26 Spin Qubits - Diamond, III-Vs, and Coupling to Cavities
  Room: D136
• 11:15am Session J26 Focus Session: Topological Quantum Computing
  Room: D136
  Invited Speakers: Parsa Bonderson
• 11:15am Session J31 Focus Session: Hybrid AMO-condensed Matter Systems for Quantum Information Science
  Room: E141
  Invited Speakers: Jacob Taylor
• 2:30pm Session L26 Spin Qubits - Control, Transport, Architecture and Decoherence
  Room: D136
• 5:45pm Session M27 GQI Business Meeting
  Room: D137

• 8am Session P26 Superconducting Qubits: Materials / Nanomechanical Resonators
  Room: D136
• 11:15am Session Q26 Quantum Error Correction and Dynamical Decoupling
  Room: D136
• 2:30am Session T26 Superconducting Qubits: Measurements
  Room: D136

• 8:00am Session V26 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits
  Room: D136
  Invited Speakers: Matthias Steffen
• 11:15am Session W6 Superconducting Qubits Room: Portland Ballroom 253
  Invited Speakers: Radoslaw Bialczak, Franco Nori, Leonardo DiCarlo, Sahel Ashhab
• 11:15am Session W26 Quantum Control and Resources for Quantum Computing
  Room: D136
• 11:15am Session W33 Quantum Entanglement
  Room: E143
• 2:30pm Session X26 Superconducting Qubits: Coherent Phases in Superconducting Resonators
  Room: D136
• 2:30pm Session X33 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory
  Room: E143
  Invited Spearers: Enrique Galvez, Robert Spekkens

• 8am Session Y26 Superconducting Qubits: Decoherence and Noise
  Room: D136
• 8am Session Y33 Novel Probes of Quantum Gases and Quantum Measurement / Quantum Information
  Room: E143
• 11:15am Session Z26 Superconducting Qubits: New States and Effects
  Room: D136