QBronze70 | Quantum Computing and Programming Workshop, November 6-7 & 13-14, 2021

We are pleased to announce the first QBronze workshop in Nigeria! The entangling workshop for QNigeria will take place on the first two weekends in November. Join us for the introductory workshop “Quantum Computing and Programming” and learn the basics of quantum computing and how to write simple quantum programs.

We are inviting high school students, university and graduate students, researchers, professors, and industrial people from Nigeria. During the workshop, we will use the introductory tutorial Bronze-Qiskit by QWorld. We will use Discord to communicate with each other and conduct the workshop by Zoom meetings. Jupyter notebooks and Zoom lectures will be in English.

We will share daily homeworks via QWorld Canvas (five homeworks, in total 100 pts), and the participants who complete them all successfully (at least 50% from each) with at least 70 pts in total, will earn their diplomas!

All material will be explained on Zoom by the workshop leader. Participants will be given time to work on the problems before moving to the discussion of solutions. Mentor support will be provided for participants to ask their questions and share their progress with mentors. The workshop will be held over 4 days, with a total of 25.5 hours of training (23 hours of work on the notebooks, 1.5 hours of lectures and 1 hour of Q&A).


Installation Day | Thursday 4 November, 19:00 – 21:00 (GMT+1)
The mentors will be available to help the participants who had issues with the installation of everything needed for the workshop.

Day 1 | Saturday 6 November, 12:00 – 18:00 (GMT+1)
Classical systems and introduction to quantum circuits.

  • 12:00-13:00 – Welcome session with explanations
  • 13:00-17:00 – Participants will work on the notebooks of the day. The proposed ones for the first day introduce the basic concepts of bits, and IBM’s tool Qiskit to simulate quantum circuits/programs
  • 17:00-18:00 – Summarized explanation of the notebooks covered during the day and a Q&A session

Day 2 | Sunday 7 November, 12:00 – 18:00 (GMT+1)
Everything related to one-qubit operations.

  • 12:00-12:15 – Session with explanations about what to work with today
  • 12:15-17:00 – Participants will work on the notebooks of the day. The proposed ones for the second day deal with quantum bits, how they can be visualized and the basic quantum concepts of superposition, measurement, some examples of possible quantum operations on qubits and quantum tomography
  • 17:00-18:00 – Summarized explanation of the notebooks covered during the day and a Q&A session

Day 3 | Saturday 13 November, 12:00 – 18:00 (GMT+1)
Everything related to two and more qubits.

  • 12:00-12:15 – Session with explanations about what to work with today
  • 12:15-17:00 – Participants will work on the notebooks of the day. The proposed ones for the third day are two-qubit systems and some common operations used in quantum algorithms, the concept of entanglement and its use to the transmission of quantum information via superdense coding and quantum teleportation
  • 17:00-18:00 – Summarized explanation of the notebooks covered during the day and a Q&A session

Day 4 | Sunday 14 November, 12:00 – 18:00 (GMT+1)
Grover’s Search.

  • 12:00-12:15 – Session with explanations about what to work with today
  • 12:15-16:45 – Participants will work on the notebooks of the day. The proposed ones introduce the basic concepts to the implementation of one of the first quantum algorithms that outperformed the classical one: Grover’s Search Algorithm
  • 16:45-18:00 – Summarized explanation of the notebooks covered during the day, Q&A session and summary of the workshop.

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

The tutorial is a collection of Jupyter notebooks, and each notebook has a recorded lecture. We use python to solve the tasks and Qiskit library to code quantum programs. The participants should know at least one programming language, and they should make themselves familiar with Python before the workshop if they do not know Python. We will share the installation instructions and a few notebooks on basics of mathematics and participants should review them before the workshop starts.


Application

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Workshop Team

Organizer: Paweł Gora, Kenneth Isamade
Workshop Lead: Maksims Dimitriejvs, Kenneth Isamade
Mentors: Ini Ekpenyong, Inemesit Friday Umoh, Ibukunoluwa Adisa, Akeem Olalekan Safiriyu, Precious Amadi, Gilead Ezerie, Kenneth Isamade, Vishal Bajpe
Contact: qnigeria [at] qworld.net


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.