Draft Agenda
09.30 – 10.00: Doors Open- Coffee available from 09.30
10.00 – 11.30: Introduction to Quantum Computing
- What makes a computer ‘quantum’?
- The principles of superposition
- Understanding qubits and the Bloch sphere
- Elementary gates and measurement operations
- Entanglement and multi-qubit operations
- Quantum processing architectures
11.30 – 11.45: Coffee Break
11.45 – 12.45: Practical Session 1: Introduction to myQLM and ‘Circuits 101’
- Initialising a register of qubits
- Types of measurements
- Creating and executing circuits
- How to select a quantum processing unit
- Creating entangled pairs
- Superdense coding
- Quantum encoding schemes
- Quantum search algorithms
12.45 – 13.45: Break for Lunch & Networking
13.45 – 14.45: Practical Session 2: Applications of Quantum Computing
- Variational quantum algorithms and machine learning
- Designing a hybrid classical-quantum algorithm
- Variational quantum eigensolver
- Quantum neural networks
- Loss functions and gradient descent for a parameterised circuit
14.45 – 15.00: Coffee Break
15.00 – 15.30: Atos: Quantum Horizons and a View to the Future talk
15.30 – 16.00: Application to Research: Quantum Field Theory talk
16.00 – 16.30: Application to Research: Classification of Pulsars talk
16.30: Doors Close
