QBronze153 | Quantum Computing and Programming Workshop, February 17-21, 2025

QBronze153 | Quantum Computing and Programming Workshop, February 17-21, 2025

We are pleased to announce the next QBronze Quantum Programming Workshop in Italy! Join us for the introductory workshop “Quantum Computing and Programming” and learn the basics of quantum computing and how to write simple quantum programs.

The workshop will be held online and in person in Cagliari (Ex Distilleria, Via Andrè Marie Ampere, 4), in collaboration with CRS4 in the DLAB project framework.

We invite high school students, university students and graduates, researchers, professors, software developers, professionals and industry experts from the region and around the world. We will use introductory tutorials called Bronze-Qiskit by QWorld. Discord will be our primary mode of communication and the workshop will be conducted through Zoom and in person. Jupyter notebooks, Zoom lectures, and mentoring sessions will be conducted in English language, while mentorship will be provided in both Italian and English. A copy of the notebooks translated into Italian will also be made available.

We will assign daily problem sets via Qworld’s Canvas (five problemsets, worth 100 pts). The participants who successfully complete themwith at least 50% per problem set and an average score of 75 pts in totalwill be awarded their diplomas!

This course can be also attended as self-paced and participants may watch lecture videos and complete the tasks by themselves. Mentoring support will be available throughout the workshop. The workshop will span over 5 days.


Quantum Workshop Schedule

Day 0 | February 14, 16:00 – 17:30 (CET)
Installation day

Day 1 | February 17, 16:00 – 18:30 (CET)
One Bit | Coin Flipping | Coin Flipping Game | Probabilistic States | Probabilistic Operators | Two Probabilistic Bits

Day 2 | February 18, 16:00 – 18:30 (CET)
Quantum Coin Flipping | First Quantum Programs with Qiskit | Hadamard Operator | One Qubit | Quantum State | Superposition and Measurement | Visualization of a (Real-Valued) Qubit

Day 3 | February 19, 16:00 – 18:30 (CET)
Operations on the Unit Circle | Rotations | Reflections | Quantum Tomography | Two Qubits | Phase Kickback

Day 4 | February 20, 16:00 – 18:30 (CET)
Entanglement and Superdense Coding | Quantum Teleportation | Multiple Control Constructions

Day 5 | February 21, 16:00 – 18:30 (CET)
Inversion About the Mean | Grover’s Search: One Qubit Representation | Grover’s Search: Implementation


The participants are expected to work individually at least 16 hours to complete the following sections of Bronze-Qiskit: basics of classical systems, basics of quantum systems, basic quantum operators, quantum correlation and quantum protocols, and quantum search algorithm.

https://gitlab.com/qworld/bronze-qiskit

This tutorial is a collection of Jupyter notebooks, and each notebook has a pre-recorded lecture. We will use Python to solve the tasks and the Qiskit library to code quantum programs.

The participants should have basic knowledge of at least one programming language, and they should make themselves familiar with Python before the workshop. We will share the installation instructions and a set of practice notebooks on basic mathematics.


Application for our quantum workshop

You may apply for the workshop by completing the application form by February 13, 2025, at midnight 23:59 CET. Applications later than the deadline won’t be taken into consideration.

The registration form >>

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Workshop Team

Organizer: Giuliana Siddi Moreau
Instructors: Lorenzo Pisani, Manuela Profir, Giuliana Siddi Moreau
Mentors: Maria Laura Clemente, Carlo Impagliazzo, Davide Muroni, Carlo Podda

Contact: qitaly [at] qworld.net or qc_at_dlab [at] crs4.it


Code of Conduct


Our event is dedicated to providing a harassment-free workshop experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media. Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event.

We respect the minors (children under age 18) and we must make every effort to protect their rights. All private relationships, private communications (including social media channels), or sexual contacts with minors are prohibited.

The default communication channel between the organizers and participants is e-mail. Except filing the application form, the contact info of any attendee or participant cannot be requested by any person from organizer side (i.e., mentor, educator, speaker, organizer, sponsor, or volunteer). On the other hand, any person from organizer side may share his or her contact info with a participant who is not a minor, upon request by the participant.

A minor can access the emails of the main organizers on the event’s website. If a minor interested in working with a person from organizer side for scientific or pedagogical purpose, then he or she should read this document before contacting this person:
https://qworld.net/code-of-ethics-and-conduct/#minors

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the organizers immediately. You may also contact directly the members of the Ethics Committee of QWorld.
https://qworld.net/code-of-ethics-and-conduct/
Check the above link for more details.