December 14-17, 2025

Sydney, Australia

Program Schedule (Preliminary)

All the times are in AEDT (UTC +11). The program given below shows the schedule of workshops for Day 1.

⚠️ The rest of the schedule (Days 2, 3, 4), including talks and other activities along with further details on logistics, will be added later. 

Day 1: Sunday, December 14, 2025

The planned events on Day 1 include Workshops and a Welcome Reception. 

 

Workshop Session A
(Blackwattle 1)

Workshop Session B
(Blackwattle 2)

Workshop Session C
(Blackwattle 3)

8:30–9:00

Welcome tea and registration ☕

 9:00–10:00Breaking and Making Quantum Speedups
(organized by Siddhartha Jain, Seyoon Ragavan, Alexander Schmidhuber, and Noah Shutty)
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: Bridging Theoretical Foundations and Industrial Frontiers
(organized by Piotr Indyk, Rajesh Jayaram, and Ravi Krishnaswamy)
Space: Connecting Classical and Catalytic Approaches
(organized by Ian Mertz and Ted Pyne )
10:00–10:30

Break ☕

 10:30–12:00Breaking and Making Quantum Speedups
(organized by Siddhartha Jain, Seyoon Ragavan, Alexander Schmidhuber, and Noah Shutty)
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: Bridging Theoretical Foundations and Industrial Frontiers
(organized by Piotr Indyk, Rajesh Jayaram, and Ravi Krishnaswamy)
Space: Connecting Classical and Catalytic Approaches
(organized by Ian Mertz and Ted Pyne )
12:001:30

Lunch (provided) 🍽️

1:30–3:00Breaking and Making Quantum Speedups
(organized by Siddhartha Jain, Seyoon Ragavan, Alexander Schmidhuber, and Noah Shutty)
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: Bridging Theoretical Foundations and Industrial Frontiers
(organized by Piotr Indyk, Rajesh Jayaram, and Ravi Krishnaswamy)
The Localization Method for High-dimensional Inequalities
(organized by Santosh S. Vempala)
3:00–3:30

Break

 3:30–4:30Breaking and Making Quantum Speedups
(organized by Siddhartha Jain, Seyoon Ragavan, Alexander Schmidhuber, and Noah Shutty)
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: Bridging Theoretical Foundations and Industrial Frontiers
(organized by Piotr Indyk, Rajesh Jayaram, and Ravi Krishnaswamy)
The Localization Method for High-dimensional Inequalities
(organized by Santosh S. Vempala)
6:008:00

Welcome Reception 🥂