And we're off for QEC26! Starting with a tutorial from Annie, Adrien, and Adnaan from Riverlane.

The QEC room block closes on Friday, May 8th, and is filling quickly. I recommend registering for the conference if you haven't already, and then booking ASAP. Room block info at: qec-conference.org/2026/travel/

Had some website troubles, so we're extending the early-bird deadline for QEC from tonight to Monday, April 27th. See qec-conference.org/2026/registr... for details. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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! :)

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.

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

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!

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'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. research.google/programs-and...

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.

🌳 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 blog.google/technology/r...