2026 - AlgoLab Summer School - Towards Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing - Advanced schools

Bishop's University - Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Institut quantique’s Quantum AlgoLab is organizing and hosting its second Summer School from June 7th to 19th, 2026. The two-week event will be held at Bishop’s University, located in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

This event will focus on teaching the principles and methods of fault-tolerant quantum computing. By the end of the school, students will have a solid understanding of the theoretical and practical foundations spanning quantum computation, quantum information and complexity, quantum algorithms, and quantum error handling. They will also be equipped to apply these concepts toward the design and analysis of scalable, error-resilient quantum systems. The summer school curriculum will be officially recognized by Université de Sherbrooke as a graduate course (3 credits).

All participants, in particular students and postdocs, are encouraged to submit abstracts for scientific talks and posters. Morning sessions will comprise of lectures and afternoon sessions will be dedicated to hands-on programming of quantum algorithms.

Since 2020, AlgoLab has been exploring quantum computing in various sectors and has developed expertise that is unique in Quebec, notably through several collaborative projects with industrial and academic partners. With access to the most advanced systems (IBM Quantum, Pasqal, Nord Quantique, Anyon Systems) and a team of experts in quantum programming, AlgoLab has 70+ collaborative research projects across more than 100 partners, 200+ scientific events organized and more than 9500 people trained.

Our goal is to bring researchers from different backgrounds together to discuss the latest advances in fault-tolerance quantum computing.