Thursday, June 13

Applied Quantum Computing, organized by NHR@SW

09:00 – 09:30                 Introduction / General Information

09:30 – 10:30                 Introduction to Quantum Computing (QC)

10:30 – 11:00                 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30                 Gate-Based QC & Variational Methods

12:30 – 13:30                 Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:00                 Quantum Annealing

15:00 – 15:30                 Coffee Break

15:30 – 18:00                 Hands-On Sessions (Annealing & Gate-Based)

18:30 onwards                organized evening program with joint dinner

                                        (more information see PDF below)

Thursday is all about quantum computing. In the morning, an introduction to quantum computing (QC), its formalisms, and mathematical descriptions from the start of this workshop. Once the foundations have been laid, we will dive deeper into the world of gate-based QC and Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQA). In the afternoon, participants will be introduced to quantum annealing before deepening what has been learned with hands-on sessions featuring topics of gate-based QC as well as quantum annealing.

Pre-Requisites

Working knowledge of Python to execute the code on Jupyter notebooks. Please bring your laptop. No previous knowledge of quantum mechanics is necessary to participate. Some knowledge of classical optimization algorithms and Qiskit is helpful but optional. 

We ask you to create a virtual environment for the hands-on session. The file "requirements.txt" below lists all the packages you will need among other requirements.