FMQC 2026

     July 18
  Lisbon, Portugal

Invited Speakers

Bob Coecke (keynote)

From quantum in pictures to interpretable and scalable quantum AI
Over some 20 years we have developed a compositional quantum formalism, called categorical quantum mechanics or quantum picturalism. We showed that this enabled secondary school students to perform exceptional on an Oxford University post-grad quantum exam. The same formalism has been used as the basis for a compositional interpretable formalism for NLP, and AI more generally.

Bob

Yu-Fang Chen

Automata-Based Verification of Size-Parameterized Quantum Circuits
This talk focuses on how the automata structure in the quantum program verifier AutoQ has evolved, and how these changes enable the verification of size-parameterized quantum circuits. I will explain the motivation behind the new automata design, outline the resulting increase in expressiveness, and discuss what classes of parameterized circuits can now be handled, as well as current limitations.

Yu-Fang

Tim Coopmans

TBA

Tim

Johannes Klaus Fichte

TBA

Johannes

Markus Hecher

New Insights into Counting Complexity and Quantitative Reasoning with Complex Numbers
In this talk we show recent insights into fine-grained counting complexity and demonstrate how we can efficiently count over semirings and with complex numbers.

Markus

Kuldeep Meel

TBA

Kuldeep

Christopher Vasko

TBA

Christopher