Description |
Click HERE for video streaming link of the Hackathon An ICTP - Quantinuum meeting in person The ICTP-Quantinuum Quantum Hackathon invites 18 international teams of students to the International Centre for Theoretical Physics to learn and develop quantum algorithms and apply them in the context of real-world use-cases with leading industrial partners. Quantum computing is undergoing a long-predicted transition from scientific revolution to industrial reality. Global governments, in partnership with industry, are making major investments in pursuit of quantum-related global goals. As the technology approaches practical implementation, the ICTP and Quantinuum jointly organise a hackathon to contribute to a global education effort around quantum computing. Following a series of lectures by Quantinuum and academic researchers, and workshops on quantum computing and algorithms, students will join scientists and industrial partners to learn how to deploy quantum algorithms focused on industrially-relevant use-cases across multiple sectors, from automotive, chemistry, finance, energy and pharmaceuticals. This multi-industry hackathon aims to accelerate applications of quantum computing, and to ensure that the benefits of this nascent technology are distributed equitably and globally. Topics:
Lecturers:
Glen Biga MBENG: Quantum computing algorithms 1, 2 Gianni MOSSI: Foundations of Quantum Computing 3, 4 Antonello SCARDICCHIO (ICTP): Foundations of Quantum Computing 1, 2 Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. |
REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Leonardo Building (Lobby). The Registration Desk will be open from 8.00 to 9.00. BREAKFAST starts at 8.30 at the Leonardo Building (Lobby). Time zone: You can choose your time zone (in place of Europe/Rome) on the top right of the page and the programme time will be modified accordingly.
Location: | Leonardo Building (Lobby) |
Speakers: | Rosario FAZIO (ICTP), Jean BARBIER (ICTP) |
- Intuitive concept of "problem hardness" - Intuitive concept of "algorithm" - Computational Complexity (deterministic) - Random Processes - Prelude to quantum (when classical probability modeling breaks down)
Speaker: | Gianni MOSSI |
Material: | Video |
- Computation by circuits: logic gates and circuits - Bit versus qubit - Main postulates and principles of quantum mechanics - Bloch sphere, superposition, complex numbers, measurement - Quantum circuits and quantum gates
Speaker: | Kathrin SPENDIER |
Material: | Video |
- from Leonardo Building to Adriatico GH
- Short Hardware introduction/NISQ - Introduction to TKET – overview, motivation, design - Building quantum circuits – registers, gates, OpTypes - Simulating quantum circuits, measurement, running on backends and sampling - Transforming/compiling quantum circuits
Speaker: | Kathrin SPENDIER and Callum MACPHERSON |
Material: | Video |
- Grover’s algorithm
Speaker: | Callum MACPHERSON |
- from Adriatico GH to Leonardo Building
- Introduction to adiabatic quantum computation
Speaker: | Glen MBENG |
Material: | Video |
Location: | Leonardo Building (Lobby) |
Location: | Budinich Lecture Hall |
- Adiabatic quantum computing and related algorithms
Speaker: | Glen MBENG |
Material: | Video |
- Quantum Error Mitigation Introduction - Examples of Quantum Error Mitigation Schemes - “Qermit” paper overview
Speaker: | Silas DILKES, Cristina CIRSTOIU, Dan MILLS |
Material: | Video |
- Introduction to “Qermit” software package
Speaker: | Silas DILKES, Cristina CIRSTOIU, Dan MILLS |
Material: | Video |
- Intro to QEC (No cloning, errors are continuous, measurement) - Why we need it, levels of abstraction (gates etc..) - From Rep code to Shor’s code - Simple exercises
Speaker: | Ben CRIGER, Ciaran RYAN-ANDERSON |
Material: | Video |
- Group theory - Paulis and Cliffords - Simple exercises
Speaker: | Ben CRIGER, Ciaran RYAN-ANDERSON |
Material: | Video |
- Overview of Stabilizer formalism - [[n, k, d]] notation - Introduce surface code - Simple exercises (surface code patches)
Speaker: | Ben CRIGER, Ciaran RYAN-ANDERSON |
Material: | Video |
- Gottesman-Knill and Eastin-Knill Theorems - Brief intro to magic - Brief overview of more advanced topics we don’t have time to cover
Speaker: | Ben CRIGER, Ciaran RYAN-ANDERSON |
Material: | Video |
from Adriatico Guest House
Location: | Leonardo Building (Lobby) |
Location: | Budinich Lecture Hall |
- Qubit encoding of the electronic structure - Manipulating the wavefunction - Hamiltonian construction
Speaker: | Nathan FITZPATRICK |
Material: | Video |
- Variational quantum eigensolver and related NISQ algorithms
Speaker: | Nathan FITZPATRICK |
Material: | Video |
- Quantum phase estimation
Speaker: | Nathan FITZPATRICK |
Material: | Video |
- from Leonardo Building to Adriatico Guest House
- Quantum signal processing/LCU approaches
Speaker: | Nathan FITZPATRICK |
Material: | Video |
- Quantum chemistry exercises
Speaker: | Nathan FITZPATRICK |
Material: | Video |
from Adriatico Guest House
Location: | Leonardo Building (Lobby) |
- Process theories as wires and boxes - ZX-notation for linear maps - The universality of ZX-notation - ZX-calculus rules - ZX-calculus's completeness - Quantum circuit simplification
Speaker: | Bob COECKE |
Material: | Video |
- Quantum teleportation - MBQC - Classical versus quantum in diagrams - Composing quantum measurements - Classical communication
Speaker: | Bob COECKE |
Material: | Video |
Speaker: | Bob COECKE |
Material: | Video |
- QNLP experiments - Practice tutorial, exercises using LAMBEQ
Speaker: | Konstantinos MEICHANETZIDIS |
Material: | Video |
from Adriatico Guest House
Location: | Leonardo Building (Lobby) |
Location: | Budinich Lecture Hall |
Material: | Video |
from Adriatico Guest House
Location: | Leonardo Building (Lobby) |
Location: | Budinich Lecture Hall |
from Adriatico Guest House
Location: | Leonardo Building (Lobby) |
Location: | Budinich Lecture Hall |
(10’ of presentation, 5’ of Q&A, 5’ of rollover)
Material: | Video |
(10’ of presentation, 5’ of Q&A, 5’ of rollover)
Material: | video |