Name: 2026 MQV Annual Meeting
Start: 2026-10-06T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-08T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Altes Stadttheater Eichstätt

Monday, 5 October 2026
Tuesday, 6 October 2026

09:00 Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
09:45 Welcome and MQV Overview - Julia Rucha, Stefan Filipp and Amit Devra
Welcome and MQV Overview
- Julia Rucha, Stefan Filipp and Amit Devra
09:45 - 10:30
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
10:30 Research Presentations
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

10:30 NP5: Quantum Computer Theory and Applications [35'+15'] - Ignacio Cirac and Jeanette Lorenz

11:20 Accelerator Project: Bridging Tensor Networks and Quantum Computing [12'+3'] - Johannes Feldmeier

11:35 Pilot Project: Preparing and Characterizing Quantum States on Quantum Processors [5'] - Michael Knap

11:40 NP4: Quantum-Classical Computing Ecosystem [35'+15'] - Martin Schulz
12:30 gGmbH Presentation
12:30 - 12:50
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

12:30 Quantum Software Integration [15'+5'] - Jorge Echavarria
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 13:50
Room: Foyer (EG)

13:50 Walk to Bischöfliches Seminar
Walk to Bischöfliches Seminar
13:50 - 14:00
14:00 Workshops
14:00 - 15:25
Contributions

14:00 Workshop 1: SQQC Systems and Applications on SQQC QPU [75'] - Workshop led by Klaus Liegener

14:00 Workshop 2: QDMI, Compiler Infrastructure and Quantum Pathway Program [75'] - Workshop led by Lukas Burgholzer, Yannick Stade
15:25 Walk to Altes Stadttheater
Walk to Altes Stadttheater
15:25 - 15:35
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)

15:35 Conclusion from workshop

15:35 - 15:50
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)

15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Foyer (EG)
16:20 Quantum Science and Technology Education in Bavaria
16:20 - 17:05
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

16:20 Communication and Public Engagement [12'+3'] - Sascha Mehlhase

16:35 Education [12'+3'] - Jan von Delft

16:50 MQV Fellow Presentation: What Makes Quantum Computations Classically Simulable? [12'+3'] - Adelina Barligea
17:05 Quantum Technology Park and Entrepreneurship
17:05 - 17:20
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

17:05 Quantum Technology Park [12'+3'] - Jelena Ninkovic
17:20 gGmbH Presentations
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

17:20 gGmbH Infrastructure [7'+3'] - Matt Tovey

17:30 Partner Network [7'+3'] - David Reichmuth
17:40 Poster Session

17:40 - 19:10
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)

19:10 Walk to the restaurant
Walk to the restaurant
19:10 - 19:15
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)

19:15 Dinner at Gasthof Krone
Dinner at Gasthof Krone
19:15 - 20:15

20:15 Wrap-up: first day
first day
20:15 - 21:45
Wednesday, 7 October 2026

07:00 Fun run/walk (optional)
Fun run/walk (optional)
07:00 - 07:45
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)

08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Foyer (EG)
09:00 Research Presentations
09:00 - 09:50
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

09:00 NP3: Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance [35'+15'] - Michael Hartmann, Peter Rabl, Daniel Burgarth, Robert König, Jens Eisert, Florian Marquardt and Markus Müller
09:50 gGmbH Presentation
09:50 - 10:10
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

09:50 Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance [15'+5'] - Petr Zapletal
10:10 Research Presentations
10:10 - 10:40
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

10:10 Accelerator Project: From Model Systems to Molecules M2M [12'+3'] - Jakob Kottmann

10:25 Accelerator Project: Co-design in Quantum Error Correction [12'+3'] - Jens Eisert
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Foyer (EG)
11:10 Research Presentations
11:10 - 12:00
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

11:10 NP2: Trapped Atom Quantum Computing [35'+15'] - Immanuel Bloch
12:00 gGmbH Presentation
12:00 - 12:20
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

12:00 Trapped Atom Quantum Computing [15'+5'] - Johannes Zeiher and Gerd Kilian
12:20 Group picture
Group picture
12:20 - 12:40
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)

12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:40
Room: Foyer (EG)
13:40 Research Presentations
13:40 - 15:25
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

13:40 Lighthouse Project: Preliminary Results on Quantum Error‑Correction in the HESC Project [12'+3'] - Francisco Lázaro Blasco

13:55 Accelerator Project: Encoding-Aware Partitioning for Distributed Fault-Tolerant Quantum Circuits [12'+3'] - Abhishek Dubey

14:10 Lighthouse Project: Bench QC [12'+3'] - Johannes Oberreuter

14:25 Accelerator Project: Understanding the Cost of Quantum Computers: An Econimical Analysis [12'+3'] - Jona Stinner

14:40 R&D Professor: Applied Quantum Theory [12'+3'] - Peter Rabl

14:55 R&D Professor: Enhancing superconductivity by confining light around materials [12'+3'] - Francesco Piazza

15:10 R&D Professor: Optical Quantum Technologies [12'+3'] - Andreas Stute
15:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:25 - 15:55
Room: Foyer
15:55 Pilot Project Lightning Talks
15:55 - 16:55
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

15:55 Cryogenic Control [6'] - Christian Schneider

16:01 Quantum Transducers [6'] - Jonathan Finley

16:07 Quantum Interconnects and Distributed Quantum Computing [6'] - Peter Rabl

16:13 Novel Fault-Tolerant Concepts [6'] - Jens Eisert

16:19 Beyond the Logical Qubit: Foundations of Computation on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers [6'] - Wolfgang Mauerer

16:25 Application-driven Benchmarking of Quantum-classical Workflows [6'] - Jeanette Lorenz

16:31 Q&A Discussion [24']
16:55 Walk to Bischöfliches Seminar
Walk to Bischöfliches Seminar
16:55 - 17:05
17:05 Workshops
17:05 - 18:20
Contributions

17:05 Workshop 4: Chip Integration and Electronics [75'] - Workshop led by Christian Schneider

17:05 Workshop 3: QEC Control Stack and SC Qubit Software [75'] - Workshop led by Max Werninghaus, Jonas Winklmann, Burak Mete, Johannes Zeiher
18:20 Walk to Altes Stadttheater
Walk to Altes Stadttheater
18:20 - 18:30
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)

18:30 Conclusion from workshop: Conclusion from workshop
Conclusion from workshop
18:30 - 18:45
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
18:45 Poster Session: Research and Development, Accelerator, and Lighthouse Projects
Research and Development, Accelerator, and Lighthouse Projects
18:45 - 20:15
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

18:45 Light Dinner
20:15 Pub Quiz
Pub Quiz
20:15 - 21:45
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Thursday, 8 October 2026

08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Foyer (EG)
09:00 Entrepreneurship
09:00 - 10:35
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

09:00 Quantum Technology Park and Entrepreneurship [12'+3'] - Christopher Trummer

09:15 QMunicate [12'+3'] - Gianvito Chiarella

09:30 Peak Quantum [12'+3'] - Thomas Luschmann

09:45 planqc [12'+3'] - Christoph Gohle

10:00 Munich Quantum Software Company [12'+3'] - Robert Wille

10:15 Quint [12'+3'] - Christopher Eichler

10:30 Welcome to Eichstätt – right in the middle - Josef Grienberger, Oberbürgermeister Große Kreisstadt Eichstätt
10:35 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Foyer (EG)

11:00 Walk to Bischöfliches Seminar
Walk to Bischöfliches Seminar
11:00 - 11:10
11:10 Workshops
11:10 - 12:25
Contributions

11:10 Workshop 5: How to Work as an Ecosystem [75'] - Workshop led by Thomas Luschmann
12:25 Walk to Altes Stadttheater
Walk to Altes Stadttheater
12:25 - 12:35
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)

12:35 Conclusion from workshop

12:35 - 12:50
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)

12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 13:50
Room: Foyer (EG)
13:50 Research Presentations
13:50 - 14:40
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

13:50 NP1: Superconducting Qubit Quantum Computing [35'+15'] - Christoph Kutter, Rui Pereira, Max Werninghaus, Christian Schneider and Christopher Eichler
14:40 gGmbH Presentation
14:40 - 15:00
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
Contributions

14:40 Superconducting Qubit Quantum Computer [15'+5'] - Max Werninghaus
15:00 Concluding Remarks - Julia Rucha
Concluding Remarks
- Julia Rucha
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)
15:20 Farewell - Sascha Mehlhase
Farewell
- Sascha Mehlhase
15:20 - 15:25
Room: Festsaal (1. OG)