QBarsaat 2025 | September 29 – October 16, 2025
Quantum Barsaat 2025 is an online workshop series on quantum computing, organized by QPakistan in partnership with QWorld. The program is completely free and open to everyone. We especially encourage high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, as well as lifelong learners, to join one or more of the sessions.
QCobalt (September 29 – October 2, 2025)
Topics:
- QUBO Formulation
- Modelling problems using penalty method and Ising model
- Simulated Annealing and expressing problems using BQM
- Quantum Annealing
QCobalt is QWorld’s workshop series on quantum annealing, designed for learners at the intermediate level. Launched in 2023, it guides participants through modeling and solving combinatorial optimization problems in a practical way. With Jupyter notebooks full of interactive coding tasks, QCobalt makes learning both engaging and applied. Beyond the basics of building QUBO formulations, the program also introduces the powerful Ocean SDK from D-Wave, opening the door to real-world quantum applications.
About Danial:
Syed Danial Haseeb is a computer science instructor at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA). He earned his Bachelor of Computer Science from IBA , where his research explored generalisations of the Bernstein–Vazirani algorithm in quantum query complexity. As an instructor at IBA, he has taught and designed materials for foundational programming courses and has also served as a mentor for QWorld. His interests span astronomy, quantum information, and programming languages. He also likes cats.
Workshop on Quantum Machine Learning (October 6 – 9, 2025)
Topics:
- Data Encoding and Quantum Feature Maps
- Quantum Kernels and Support Vector Machines
- Variational Quantum Circuits and Neural Networks
- Classical and Quantum Hybrid Networks
This workshop will be an introduction to the basic techniques of supervised machine learning using quantum computers. Students are expected to be already familiar with the fault-tolerant quantum algorithms and have hands-on experience of programming in qiskit. This workshop will build on it and introduce the students to the theory as well as hands-on implementations using the qiskit-machine-learning library in python.
About Muhammad:
Muhammad Faryad is an associate professor of physics at LUMS. He joined LUMS in July 2014. Before that, he was a postdoctoral research scholar at Pennsylvania State University from 2012 to 2014. He obtained his MSc and MPhil degrees in electronics from the Quaid-i-Azam University in 2006 and 2008, respectively, with certificates of merit in both degrees. He obtained his PhD degree in engineering science and mechanics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2012 with the best dissertation award by the university. He was awarded the Galleino Denardo award by the Abdus Salam International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in 2019 and the Early Career Achievement award by the department of engineering science and mechanics at the Pennsylvania State University in 2021. His current research is focused on the impact of noise on quantum algorithms.
Workshop on Quantum Sensing (October 13 – 16, 2025)
Topics:
- Basics of quantum sensing
- Dynamics of quantum sensors
- Quantifying the performance of quantum sensors
- Some concrete examples of quatum sensors
This workshop will be an introduction to quantum sensing. Quantum sensing is essentially the use of quantum systems to measure (generally) weak physical quantities such as electromagnetic fields, temperature, acceleration, etc. The applications are endless. Students attending this workshop are expected to be already familiar with basic quantum mechanics; some knowledge of essential estimation theory would be beneficial, but is not required.
About Adam:
Dr. Adam Zaman Chaudhry obtained his PhD in Physics from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2013 and continued working there as a post-doctoral fellow before joining LUMS in August 2014. He has been there ever since. His research focuses on harnessing the power of realistic quantum systems with the aim of using them for various applications. He has supervised a number of BS, MS and PhD students and has authored multiple publications with them.
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Workshop Team
Organizer: Jibran Rashid
Workshop Leads: Jibran Rashid, Syed Danial Haseeb, Muhammad Faryad, Dr. Adam Zaman Chaudhry
Mentors: Mah Noor, Rumlah Amer, Razeen ud Din, Imama Khan, Isam Balghari
Contact: qpakistan [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.
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