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!
8:30 - 9:00 Registration/Check-in
• Robert Gordon, President
• Shanthi Johnson, Vice-President Research Innovation (Virtual)
• Claudio Verani, Dean, Faculty of Science
• Bill Van Heyst, Dean, Faculty of Engineering
• Julien Chosson, IBM Canada
‘Seizing the quantum opportunity: progress, potential and pathways to applications’
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
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’
12:00 - 13:00 Poster presentations & Networking
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
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
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
• Sreekanta Das, Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering
Registration is now closed.
Tirupati Bolisetti, Ph. D., P.Eng. (Civil Engineering)
Chitra Rangan, Ph.D. (Physics)
Sreekanta Das, Ph. D., P.Eng. (Civil Engineering)
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: