QBronze79 | Quantum Computing and Programming Workshop, March 7-11, 2022

We are happy to announce our next QBronze workshop organized jointly by QPoland and QIreland! Join us in the introductory workshop “Quantum Computing and Programming” and learn the basics of quantum computing and how to write simple quantum programs by using Qiskit.

We are inviting everyone wishing to learn more about quantum computers. During the workshop, we will use the introductory tutorial Bronze-Qiskit by QWorld. The tutorial will be in English. We will use a dedicated Discord server to conduct the workshop and we will have daily Zoom meetings.

Participants are expected to follow the workshop materials, watch the lecture videos and complete the tasks on their own. The workshop will be held during 5 days with about 20 hours of commitment from the participants. On-line mentoring will be provided for participants during the times specified in the schedule below. We will also use Canvas for homework tracking.

The participants completing the workshop (including homework) successfully will receive a diploma!


Workshop Agenda (lectures):


Day 1 | Monday 7 March, 16:00 – 17:30 UTC (17:00 – 18:30 CET)
Introduction, One Bit, Coin Flipping, Coin Flipping Game, Probabilistic States, Probabilistic Operators, Two Probabilistic Bits

Day 2 | Tuesday 8 March, 16:00 – 17:30 UTC (17:00 – 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 | Wednesday 9 March, 16:00 – 17:30 UTC (17:00 – 18:30 CET)
Operations on the Unit Circle, Rotations, Reflections, Quantum Tomography, Two Qubits, Phase Kickback

Day 4 | Thursday 10 March, 16:00 – 17:30 UTC (17:00 – 18:30 CET)
Entanglement and Superdense Coding, Quantum Teleportation, Multiple Control Constructions

Day 5 | Friday 11 March, 16:00 – 17:30 UTC (17:00 – 18:30 CET)
Inversion About the Mean, Grover’s Search: One Qubit Representation, Grover’s Search: Implementation


Also, the participants are expected to work individually for about 15 hours to complete the following sections of Bronze (https://gitlab.com/qworld/bronze-qiskit): basics of classical systems, basics of quantum systems, basic quantum operators, quantum correlation and quantum protocols, and quantum search algorithm.

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 the basics of mathematics and participants should review them before the workshop starts.


Application

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Workshop Team

Organizers: Paweł Gora, Victoria Sánchez Muñoz
Workshop Instructor: Adam Glos
Mentors: Aleksandra Lipińska, Kamila Szafrańska, Przemysław Michałowski, Ian Craig, Jakub Nowak, Magdalena Wiercioch, Rafał Chrzanowski, Michał Malik, Piotr Wodecki

Contact: qireland [at] qworld.net or qpoland [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.