YPetz

Advances in quantum hypothesis testing
and quantum entropies

Pisa, 8–12 June 2026

The workshop YPetz is devoted to recent advances in quantum hypothesis testing and its connections with quantum communication theory, resource theories and quantum entropies. The aim of the meeting is to bring together established experts to discuss new methods, conceptual developments, and open problems in the field.

Topics covered by the workshop include

quantum hypothesis testing and discrimination of quantum states,
quantum Shannon theory and operational interpretations,
entropic quantities and \(f\)-divergences.

Programme

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:30–10:30	Tomamichel	Hayashi	Fawzi	Hiai	Sutter
10:30–11:00	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
11:00–12:00	Dalai	Cheng	Christandl	Hirche	Bergh
12:00–13:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13:30–14:30	Reguła	Berta		Rubboli	Mosonyi
14:30–15:00	Coffee break	Coffee break	Free afternoon	Coffee break	Coffee break
15:00–16:00	Buscemi	Brandão		Renes
Evening	Reception (18:00)		Social dinner (map)

Detailed schedule & recordings Photo album

Venue

The workshop will take place at the Scuola Normale Superiore, one of Italy’s leading institutions for research and higher education, located in the historic center of Pisa. Founded in 1810, the Scuola Normale is renowned for its strong tradition in mathematics, physics, and theoretical sciences.

Pisa is a historic university city in Tuscany, internationally known for the Leaning Tower, its medieval architecture, and a vibrant academic atmosphere. The city is easily reachable by train and is served by the nearby Galileo Galilei International Airport.

Participants

Bartosz Regula (RIKEN)
Bjarne Bergh (University of Cambridge)
Christoph Hirche (Leibniz University Hannover)
David Sutter (IBM Research)
Fernando Brandão (AWS and Caltech)
Francesco Buscemi (Nagoya University)
Fumio Hiai (Tohoku University)
Giulia Mazzola (ETH Zurich)
Hao-Chung Cheng (National Taiwan University)
Joseph M. Renes (ETH Zurich)
Marco Dalai (University of Brescia)
Marco Parentin (Polytechnic University of Turin)
Marco Tomamichel (National University of Singapore)
Mario Berta (RWTH Aachen University & Imperial College London)
Masahito Hayashi (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Matthias Christandl (University of Copenhagen)
Milán Mosonyi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Nilanjana Datta (University of Cambridge)
Omar Fawzi (Inria, ENS Lyon)
Roberto Rubboli (University of Copenhagen)
Robert Salzmann (RWTH Aachen University)
Ryuji Takagi (University of Tokyo)
Vittorio Giovannetti (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Organisers

Ludovico Lami
Filippo Girardi

Acknowledgements

This workshop is funded by the European Union (ERC StG ETQO, Grant Agreement no. 101165230). We are grateful to Gaia Sammartino for conceiving and designing the workshop logo.

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