Keynote Speakers
33rd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing
Keynote Talks
Title: Limitations of Quantum Advantage and Implications
Speaker: Apoorva D. Patel, Emeritus Professor, Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Abstract: Quantum computation is universal, but quantum advantage is not. Applications of quantum technology will be practical only in situations where the advantage offered by them is large enough to offset their technological cost. Genuine quantum features appear in algorithms and devices only when they involve the fundamental Planck constant in some form or the other. Explicit scenarios illustrating this constraint will be described. The implication is that quantum technology will be used only as special purpose subroutines in hybrid classical-quantum settings.
Speaker Bio: Apoorva D. Patel is an Emeritus Professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and is involved with the IISc Quantum Technology Initiative. He is also a Visiting Professor at the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore. He obtained his MSc in Physics (1980) from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and his PhD in Physics (1984) from the California Institute of Technology, USA. He has extensively worked on lattice gauge theory investigations of Quantum Chromodynamics. He is also notable for his work on quantum algorithms, and the application of information theory concepts to understand the structure of genetic languages. He was exposed to the subject of quantum computation during his graduate student days at Caltech, and he has been teaching the subject at IISc for more than 25 years.
HiPC 2026 is the 33rd edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing. It will be an in-person event in Bengaluru, India, from December 16 to December 19, 2026.
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