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Date: Friday, 10/Oct/2025
8:45amto9:00amSES-3.1: Remarks Day 3
9:00amto9:40amSES-3.2: keynote: Tolga Birdal
Location: Generali Hall
9:40amto10:00amSES-3.3: Coffee
10:00amto12:30pmSES-3.4.1: Mech Eng II
Location: Generali Hall
 
Presentations
10:00am - 10:25am

Quantum-assisted Stacking Sequence Retrieval and Laminated Composite Design

Arne Wulff1, Swapan Madabhushi Venkata1, Boyang Chen1, Sebastian Feld2, Matthias Möller2, Yinglu Tang1

1: TU Delft, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, The Netherlands; 2: TU Delft, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, The Netherlands



10:25am - 10:50am

Application of Quantum Annealing to Structural Design Optimization

Fabian Key, Lukas Freinberger

TU Wien, Austria



10:50am - 11:15am

ON THE INTEGRATION OF QUANTUM NEURAL NETWORKS INTO TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION

Naruethep Sukulthanasorn, Junsen Xiao, Koya Wagatsuma, Kenjiro Terada

Tohoku University, Japan



11:15am - 11:40am

A Fault-Tolerant Quantum Approach to Topology Optimization

Leonhard Hölscher1,2,3, Lukas Karch1, Oliver Ahrend4, Carlotta L'Estocq1, Marc Marfany Andreu1

1: BMW Group; 2: Forschungszentrum Jülich; 3: Universität des Saarlandes; 4: RWTH Aachen



11:40am - 12:05pm

QUANTUM KERNELS FOR FAILURE ENVELOPE PREDICTION OF OPEN-HOLE COMPOSITE LAMINATES

Giorgio Tosti Balducci1, Boyang Chen1, Matthias Moller2, Marc Gerritsma1, Roeland De Breuker1

1: Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands; 2: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science, TU Delft, The Netherlands



12:05pm - 12:30pm

Topology optimization with quantum optimization algorithm and HOBO formulation

Ryo Kitazato1, Shiori Haga1, Katsuhiro Endo2, Yoshihito Yamamoto1

1: Hosei University; 2: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

 
10:00amto12:30pmSES-3.4.2: Methods III
Location: Ford Hall
 
Presentations
10:00am - 10:25am

QUANTUM COMPUTING ASSISTED ENGINEERING – EMERGING FRONTIERS IN SIMULATION

Karim Essafi

QunaSys, Denmark



10:25am - 10:50am

Potential Directions for the Use of Quantum Computing in CAA

Hans Alexander Kösel, Roland Ewert

Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany



10:50am - 11:15am

RhoDARTS: Density Matrix Simulations to Facilitate Quantum Architecture Search

Swagat Kumar1, Jan-Nico Zaech1, Colin Wilmott2, Luc Van Gool1

1: INSAIT, Sofia University, Bulgaria; 2: Nottingham Trent University, UK



11:15am - 11:40am

Symbolic analysis of quantum circuits

Oliver Ahrend, Sathyamurthy Hegde, Julia Kowalski

RWTH Aachen University, Germany



11:40am - 12:05pm

Quantum simulation of one-dimensional fermionic systems with Ising Hamiltonians

Matthias Werner1, Artur Garcia-Saez2, Marta Estarellas3

1: Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, University of Barcelona; 2: Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, Barcelona Supercomputing Center; 3: Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech



12:05pm - 12:30pm

Stability, consistency and weak convergence for Carleman linearization

Devin Blankespoor, David Fernandez, Sitanshu Gakkhar

Univesity of Waterloo, Canada

 
12:30pmto12:45pmSES-3.5.0: Poster Pitches (chem & logistics & signal processing)
 
Presentations

Molecular Dynamics of small proteins: a comparison of quantum and classical computing platforms

Nicolas Vatiliotis, Maria Fyta

RWTH Aachen University, Germany



Evaluation of the Effect of Encoding Strategies in Factorization Machine with Annealing for RNA Inverse Folding

Shuta Kikuchi1,2, Shu Tanaka1,2,3,4

1: Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University; 2: Keio University Sustainable Quantum Artificial Intelligence Center (KSQAIC), Keio University; 3: Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University; 4: Human Biology-Microbiome-Quantum Research Center (WPI-Bio2Q), Keio University



Quantum Annealing Assisted Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Energy System Design to Decarbonize Industries

Rushit Kansara, Martin Baehr, María Isabel Roldán Serrano

German Aerospace Center, Germany



A QUBO-Based Quantum Annealing Approach to Transmission Expansion Planning Problem

Luca Hofstadler

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Delft University of Technology



Hybrid classical-quantum image processing via polar Walsh basis functions

Mohit Rohida1, Alok Shukla1, Prakash Vedula2

1: Ahmedabad University, India; 2: University of Oklahoma

 
12:45pmto2:00pmSES-3.5: Lunch
2:00pmto3:40pmSES-3.6.1: chemistry
Location: Generali Hall
 
Presentations
2:00pm - 2:25pm

Faster quantum chemistry simulations on a quantum computer

Matthias Degroote

Boehringer Ingelheim, Belgium



2:25pm - 2:50pm

Modelling Actinides Chemistry with Quantum Computers

Carlo Alberto Gaggioli1, Kesha Sorathia1, Gabriel Greene-Diniz1, Cono Di Paola1, David Zsolt Manrique1, David Muñoz Ramo1, Thomas Soini1, Joe Gibbs2, Sean Harding2, Neil Gaspar2, Robert Harker2, Mark Storr2

1: Quantinuum, 13-15 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1NL, United Kingdom; 2: AWE Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, United Kingdom



2:50pm - 3:15pm

SOLVING THE ANION-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE ELECTROLYSIS PROBLEM BY VARIATIONAL QUANTUM ALGORITHM

Timur Gubaev, Christian Dreßler, Jörg Schumacher

Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany



3:15pm - 3:40pm

A Unifying Initialization Protocol for Combinatorial Optimization and Quantum Materials Simulation

Chinonso Onah

RWTH Aachen University/ Volkswagen AG, Germany

 
2:00pmto3:40pmSES-3.6.2: Logistics
Location: Ford Hall
 
Presentations
2:00pm - 2:25pm

Alternative pipeline for Option Pricing using Quantum Computers

Alberto Manzano1, Gonzalo Ferro2, Álvaro Leitao1, Andrés Gómez2, Carlos Vázquez1

1: University of A Coruña and CITIC, Spain; 2: Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA), Spain



2:25pm - 2:50pm

QUNATUM COMPUTING FOR POWER SYSTEM DYNAMIC SECURITY ASSESEMENT

Andrea Benigni, Mahesh Jayakody, Carsten Hartmann, Ruben Kara

Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany



2:50pm - 3:15pm

Using Quantum Annealing for identifying plausible earthquake rupture paths in fault networks

Angela Stallone1, Marcin Dukalski2, Giovanni Diaferia1

1: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Bologna, Italy; 2: Independent

 
3:40pmto4:00pmSES-3.7: Coffee
4:00pmto5:00pmSES-3.8: Summary Day 3 + Conference close-out