Yes, we intend to have the full schedule out before the deadline

1. Early-bird registration ends April 24th, details at qec-conference.org/2026/registr...
2. Room block bookings must be in by May 8th, and are going to run out fast, details at qec-conference.org/2026/travel/

Accepted submissions for QEC26 are out: qec-conference.org/2026/accepte.... Congratulations!

If you are attending QEC, a few reminders below:

Earlybird deadline for QEC is extended til April 24th, with acceptances out on Friday!

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! :)

If you or your organisation is interested in sponsoring QEC26, please reach out to me as well and we can discuss the different sponsorship levels and opportunities we’ve set up!

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.

The Nobel committee saw this and decided to award a prize in something you know just to spite you haha

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

My favorite example is one Oscar pointed out when he first mentioned this idea, where four broken couplers in a square can lead to 4 weight-1 gauges. In this case we increase our distance by 2 in one basis!

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!

Typ(tw)o: PlanqTN.com

Can I get bonus points for almost certainly having the _most_ stim circuits in a single paper? I think the LUCI zenodo is ~15k :P

Relaxing Hardware Requirements for Surface Code Circuits using Time-dynamics The typical time-independent view of quantum error correction (QEC) codes hides significant freedom in the decomposition into circuits that are executable on hardware. Using the concept of detecting r...

I think arxiv.org/abs/2302.02192 is a really interesting paper that gives a new way to think about circuits and provides a lot of new intuition.

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!

If you replace every reference to another section of the paper with the full text of that paper, you could have the first ever recursive, infinite length paper!

Would have lower overhead if it was 2D

I have a Wyze camera we used to catch a rat in our house. Was very easy to set up and worked well, but the cheap option I got doesn't have the best camera quality.

Research scholar program Overview

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.
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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.

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.

🌳 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

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