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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:
  • Gate-based quantum computing
  • Optimisation, routing and compilation of quantum circuits
  • Quantum algorithms
  • Quantum chemistry
  • Diagrammatic reasoning
  • Compositionality and computational linguistics
  • Quantum hackathon
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.
 

Material

ICTP - Quantinuum Quantum Hackathon | (smr 3829)
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  • Monday, 17 April 2023
    • 08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Breakfast 
      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)
    • 09:00 - 18:30 click here to see live-streaming
      • 09:00 Welcome remarks 25'
        Speakers: Rosario FAZIO (ICTP), Jean BARBIER (ICTP)
      • 09:30 Intro to Quantum Computing 1 1h30' 
        - 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
      • 11:00 Group photo 10'
      • 11:10 Intro to Quantum Computing 2 1h0' 
        - 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
      • 12:10 Lunch 50'
      • 13:00 SHUTTLE TO 'Info Lab' 30' 
        - from Leonardo Building to Adriatico GH
      • 13:30 Intro to Quantum Computing Exercise Session 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House ( Info Lab - Lower level ) ) 
        - 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
      • 14:40 Grover’s Algorithm 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House ( Info Lab - Lower level ) ) 
        - Grover’s algorithm
        Speaker: Callum MACPHERSON
      • 15:50 SHUTTLE TO 'Leonardo Building' 30' 
        - from Adriatico GH to Leonardo Building
      • 16:20 Adiabatic Quantum Computation 1h0' ( Leonardo Building ( Budinich Lecture Hall ) ) 
        - Introduction to adiabatic quantum computation
        Speaker: Glen MBENG
        Material: Video
      • 17:20 Welcome reception 1h10'
  • Tuesday, 18 April 2023
    • 08:00 - 08:30
      • 08:00 SHUTTLE TO 'Leonardo Building' 30'
    • 08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
      Location: Leonardo Building (Lobby)
    • 09:00 - 18:00 click here to see live-streaming
      Location: Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Adiabatic Quantum Computation 1h0' 
        - Adiabatic quantum computing and related algorithms
        Speaker: Glen MBENG
        Material: Video
      • 10:10 Introduction to Quantum Error Mitigation 1 1h0' 
        - Quantum Error Mitigation Introduction
- Examples of Quantum Error Mitigation Schemes
- “Qermit” paper overview
        Speaker: Silas DILKES, Cristina CIRSTOIU, Dan MILLS
        Material: Video
      • 11:20 Introduction to Quantum Error Mitigation 2 1h0' 
        - Introduction to “Qermit” software package
        Speaker: Silas DILKES, Cristina CIRSTOIU, Dan MILLS
        Material: Video
      • 12:20 Lunch 1h10'
      • 13:30 Quantum Error Correction 1 1h0' 
        - 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
      • 14:40 Quantum Error Correction 2 1h0' 
        - Group theory
- Paulis and Cliffords
- Simple exercises
        Speaker: Ben CRIGER, Ciaran RYAN-ANDERSON
        Material: Video
      • 15:50 Quantum Error Correction 3 1h0' 
        - Overview of Stabilizer formalism
- [[n, k, d]] notation
- Introduce surface code 
- Simple exercises (surface code patches)
        Speaker: Ben CRIGER, Ciaran RYAN-ANDERSON
        Material: Video
      • 17:00 Quantum Error Correction 4 1h0' 
        - 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
  • Wednesday, 19 April 2023
    • 08:00 - 08:30
      • 08:00 SHUTTLE TO 'Leonardo Building' 30' 
        from Adriatico Guest House
    • 08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
      Location: Leonardo Building (Lobby)
    • 09:00 - 17:30 click here to see live-streaming
      Location: Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Introduction to Quantum Computational Chemistry 1 1h0' 
        - Qubit encoding of the electronic structure
- Manipulating the wavefunction
- Hamiltonian construction
        Speaker: Nathan FITZPATRICK
        Material: Video
      • 10:10 Introduction to Quantum Computational Chemistry 2 1h0' 
        - Variational quantum eigensolver and related NISQ algorithms
        Speaker: Nathan FITZPATRICK
        Material: Video
      • 11:20 Introduction to Quantum Computational Chemistry 3 1h0' 
        - Quantum phase estimation
        Speaker: Nathan FITZPATRICK
        Material: Video
      • 12:20 Lunch 1h10'
      • 13:30 SHUTTLE to Info Lab 30' 
         - from Leonardo Building to Adriatico Guest House
      • 14:00 Introduction to Quantum Computational Chemistry 4 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House ( Info Lab ) ) 
        - Quantum signal processing/LCU approaches
        Speaker: Nathan FITZPATRICK
        Material: Video
      • 15:10 Quantum Computational Chemistry Exercise Session 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House ( Info Lab ) ) 
        - Quantum chemistry exercises
        Speaker: Nathan FITZPATRICK
        Material: Video
  • Thursday, 20 April 2023
    • 08:30 - 09:00
      • 08:30 SHUTTLE to Leonardo Building 20' 
        from Adriatico Guest House
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Breakfast
      Location: Leonardo Building (Lobby)
    • 09:00 - 17:20 click here to see live-streaming
      • 10:00 Introduction to ZX-calculus part I 1h0' 
        - 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
      • 11:10 Introduction to ZX-calculus part II 1h0' 
        - Quantum teleportation
- MBQC
- Classical versus quantum in diagrams
- Composing quantum measurements
- Classical communication
        Speaker: Bob COECKE
        Material: Video
      • 12:20 Lunch 1h40'
      • 14:00 Compositional intelligence 1h0'
        Speaker: Bob COECKE
        Material: Video
      • 15:10 QNLP experiments Practice tutorial, exercises using LAMBEQ 1h30' 
        - QNLP experiments
- Practice tutorial, exercises using LAMBEQ
        Speaker: Konstantinos MEICHANETZIDIS
        Material: Video
  • Friday, 21 April 2023
    • 07:30 - 08:00
      • 07:30 SHUTTLE to Leonardo Building 30' 
        from Adriatico Guest House
    • 08:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
      Location: Leonardo Building (Lobby)
    • 08:30 - 19:00 click here to see live-streaming
      Location: Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Welcome speech from Quantinuum and introduction of the partners 30'
        Material: Video
      • 09:00 Beginning of the hackathon of Quantinuum day 1 3h0'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 13:00 Hackathon 4h0'
      • 17:00 Break 1h0'
      • 18:00 Hackathon 1h0'
  • Saturday, 22 April 2023
    • 07:30 - 08:00
      • 07:30 SHUTTLE to Leonardo building 30' 
        from Adriatico Guest House
    • 08:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
      Location: Leonardo Building (Lobby)
    • 08:30 - 19:30
      Location: Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Beginning of the hackathon of Quantinuum day 2 3h30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 13:00 Hackathon 4h0'
      • 17:00 Break 1h0'
      • 18:00 Hackathon 1h0'
      • 18:30 Welcome reception 1h0'
  • Sunday, 23 April 2023
    • 07:30 - 08:00
      • 07:30 SHUTTLE to Leonardo Building 30' 
        from Adriatico Guest House
    • 08:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
      Location: Leonardo Building (Lobby)
    • 08:30 - 13:30 click here to see live-streaming
      Location: Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Deadline to give the presentation material from each team 30'
      • 09:00 Beginning of the first part of the technical presentations 1h30' 
        (10’ of presentation, 5’ of Q&A, 5’ of rollover)
        Material: Video
      • 10:45 Second part of the technical presentations 1h30' 
        (10’ of presentation, 5’ of Q&A, 5’ of rollover)
      • 12:15 Lunch 1h15'
    • 13:15 - 20:00 Award Ceremony & Cocktail party
      Material: video
      • 13:15 TRANSFER (1st BUS) to Sala Teatro Piccola Fenice 30'
      • 13:45 TRANSFER (2nd BUS) to Sala Teatro Piccola Fenice 30'
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