And we're off for QEC26! Starting with a tutorial from Annie, Adrien, and Adnaan from Riverlane.
Dripto Debroy
@dripto.bsky.social
Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI focused on quantum error correction
The QEC room block closes on Friday, May 8th, and is filling quickly. I recommend registering for the conference if you haven't already, and then booking ASAP. Room block info at: qec-conference.org/2026/travel/
Travel and Accomodations
Travel Details The best way to get to Santa Barbara is to fly to Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA), which is 7 miles from downtown Santa Barbara where the conference will be hosted. This airport i...
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Had some website troubles, so we're extending the early-bird deadline for QEC from tonight to Monday, April 27th. See qec-conference.org/2026/registr... for details. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Registration
Click here to register on EasyChair The registration fees are as follows: Fees Early Bird Regular Onsite Student Registration $600 $800 $1000 General Registration $700 $900 $1100 Early-bird registrati...
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Accepted submissions for QEC26 are out: qec-conference.org/2026/accepte.... Congratulations! If you are attending QEC, a few reminders below:
Accepted Papers
Invited Speakers Natalie C. Brown (Quantinuum) Vedika Khemani (Stanford University) Anthony Leverrier (Inria) Yue Wu (Microsoft) List of Accepted Contributed Talks (presented in order of submission) T...
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The hotel block for QEC is now up on the website at qec-conference.org/2026/travel/ The bookings are somewhat limited and must be made by May 8th, which is sooner than you'd think. I recommend that if you know you'll be attending the conference, register and reserve your room ASAP!
Registration is now open for QEC26, to be held this June in sunny Santa Barbara, CA! See the registration page at qec-conference.org for a link. Also, the deadline for submissions is next Friday. Make sure to get those in and spread the word to friends and collaborators!
The call for submissions is now live on the QEC website! Deadline is March 6th, AoE. Please consider submitting and we'd appreciate it if you spread the word! :)
Matt McEwen@matt.mcewen.xyz · 6mo agoThe Call for Submissions for QEC26 is now up: qec-conference.org/2026/call/ Follow the link to submit your paper or poster by March 6th AOE.
Last week we put up the website for QEC26, which can be found at qec-conference.org! It should have all conference information and deadline details needed, but if anything is missing please reach out to the admin email and we’ll get back to you asap.
Very exciting announcement, the next Quantum Error Correction conference QEC26 will be hosted by Google 7-12 June 2026 in Santa Barbara. See you there! @dripto.bsky.social @mattmcewen.bsky.social
If you saw my talk yesterday at QEC, this paper is the one that allows us to further improve distance of the mid cycle states further!
Matt McEwen@matt.mcewen.xyz · 12mo agoCheck out our new work on how to make the surface code on a hexagonal grid robust to dead components: www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.08116 It turns out adding weight-1 checks to LUCI gives you a lot of new freedom!
Our team made a page on our website in case you're coming to March Meeting and interested in the work we do. Come find us and say hi!
Ofer Naaman@ofernaaman.bsky.social · last yr.Our team will be at #APSUmmit25 March meeting, say hello! quantumai.google/apsglobalphy...
If you're an early-career faculty member (received their PhD within seven years of submission) in quantum computing, consider applying to Google's Research Scholar Program. The application process is lightweight and the grant comes in the form of an unrestricted gift. research.google/programs-and...
Research scholar program
Overview
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Check out Matt's thread on implementing the novel surface code circuits from the Relaxing Hardware Requirements pallet in experiment! It's always exciting when we can find new ways to use the resources we already have.
Matt McEwen@matt.mcewen.xyz · 2y agoCircuits Galore! Check out our latest work demonstrating three new circuits for implementing the surface code: arxiv.org/abs/2412.14360 They all perform well below threshold on a device optimised for the standard surface code, but they each open up wild new possibilities for devices.
🌳 Excited to introduce Willow, Google Quantum AI’s latest chip. Willow 5x’s coherence times, beats the Surface Code QEC threshold, and the time to reproduce Willow's RCS on Frontier supercomputer is estimated at 10^25 years⏳! 👇 thread #Quantum #Physics #Science blog.google/technology/r...
Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
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