WiQAS

Windsor Quantum Applications Symposium 2025

Friday, July 11, 2025
9am - 5pm
Ed Lumley CEI—Room 1101 University of Windsor

2025 is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Join us to celebrate quantum in Windsor at WiQAS 2025!

Agenda

8:30 - 9:00 Registration/Check-in

9:00 - 9:30 Inaugural Session:

• Robert Gordon, President
• Shanthi Johnson, Vice-President Research Innovation (Virtual)
• Claudio Verani, Dean, Faculty of Science
• Bill Van Heyst, Dean, Faculty of Engineering

9.30 - 10.15 Keynote Address

• Julien Chosson, IBM Canada

‘Seizing the quantum opportunity: progress, potential and pathways to applications’

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

Session 2

10:30 - 11:00 Greg Dick, Open Quantum Design (OQD)

‘Open Quantum Design - the world’s first open source quantum computer’

11:00 - 11:30 Bruna Shinohara de Mendonça, CMC Microsystems (Virtual)

‘FABrIC: Accelerating Quantum Readiness’

11:30 - 12:00 Chitra Rangan, Physics

‘Designing a Solid-State Quantum Memory’

Session 3

12:00 - 13:00 Poster presentations & Networking

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Session 4

14:00 - 14:30 Daniel Nino, Xanadu (Virtual)

‘Quantum computing with Xanadu and PennyLane: photonic quantum computing, quantum programming and open-source education’

14:30 - 15:00 Brynle Barrett, University of New Brunswick (Virtual)

‘Quantum Sensing Platforms for Real-World Applications’

15:00 - 15:30 Mitra Mirhassani, Electrical and Computer Engineering

‘Breaking the Unbreakable Post Quantum Cryptography’

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break

Session 5

15:45 - 16:15 Tirupati Bolisetti, Civil and Environmental Engineering

‘Remote Sensing Data Analysis Using Quantum Computing’

16:15 - 16:35 Joseph Santarelli, MITACS

‘Funding opportunities’

16:35 - 16:55 Discussions on collaborations and project ideas

16:55 - 17:00 Closing Remarks

• Sreekanta Das, Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering

Registration

Registration is now closed.

Questions? Please ask:

Tirupati Bolisetti, Ph. D., P.Eng. (Civil Engineering)
Chitra Rangan, Ph.D. (Physics)
Sreekanta Das, Ph. D., P.Eng. (Civil Engineering)

Acknowledgements

This Symposium is jointly sponsored by the the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science at the University of Windsor. ‘Quantum Canada 2025’ pins are provided thanks to the Canadian Association of Physicists. We thank the volunteers who are involved in running this symposium: