July 2020 - QWorld

29Jul 2020 by Agnieszka Wolska

Watch our Q&A session with Scott Aaronson!

QWebinars, QWorld

We invite you to watch the recording from the first Q&A session in the QWebinar series! Our first guest was Scott Aaronson, one of the best-known scientists in quantum computing and complexity theory, also known with his most popular blog "Shtetl-Optimized". In this amazing Q&A session, Scott answered the questions prepared by the moderators and also from the participants on quantum computing from the 80s to 20s. We thank Andris Ambainis, one of the world's leading experts on quantum algorithms, for being our special guest moderator! See the recording of the event on YouTube >> Moderators: Andris Ambainis (QLatvia) and Zoltán Zimborás (QHungary)Organizers: Abuzer Yakaryılmaz (QLatvia) and Agnieszka Wolska (QLatvia) Subscribe to our YouTube channel pageWatch all our QWebinars!

01Jul 2020 by Agnieszka Wolska

Workshop Online for high school students!

QJunior, QWorkshop, QWorld, Workshop

We are pleased to announce that our online workshop “Quantum Computing and Programming” for juniors will start this Saturday (July 4, 2020). Our workshop is dedicated to the high school students who are 14 years old or older. During the workshop, we use the tutorial “Bronze” prepared by QWorld. It is a collection of Jupyter notebooks and each notebook has a couple of programming tasks to be solved by the participants. We use python to code our quantum programs. The workshop leader: Dr. Abuzer Yakaryilmaz (QWorld, QLatvia, and University of Latvia)QMentors: Viktorija Leimane (QLatvia) and Laine Strankale (QLatvia) Check our QBronze page for further details! The workshop is conducted by QWorld and co-organized by University of Latvia, University of Namibia, University of Turku, and Aion.