QBronze180 | Quantum Computing and Programming Workshop, December 1 – 5, 2025
We are pleased to announce the QBronze quantum programming workshop! Join us for the introductory workshop “Quantum Computing and Programming” and learn the basics of quantum computing and how to write simple quantum programs. These quantum programming workshops are free of charge and will take place during the Africa Quantum Hackathon 2025, organized by the African Quantum Consortium (AQC).
We invite event participants and anyone interested in joining the workshops, including high school students, university and graduate students, researchers, professors, and industry professionals from the region and around the world. During the quantum programming workshop, we will use the introductory tutorial Bronze-Qiskit by QWorld. We will use Discord to communicate with each other and conduct the workshop. Jupyter notebooks, lectures, and mentoring will be in English.
We will share homework via QWorld Canvas (five homework assignments, in total 100 pts). The participants who complete them all successfully (at least 50% for each) with at least 70 pts in total, will earn their diplomas!
Participants will be watching the lecture videos and completing the tasks on their own. Mentor support will be provided for participants to ask their questions and share their progress with mentors. The workshop will be held over 8 days, with a total of 20 hours of training.
Quantum Workshop Schedule
Day 1 | December 1, 2025 (13:00–15:30 UTC+0)
Classical Systems and Introduction to Quantum Programming
Topics: One Bit, Coin Flipping, Coin Flipping Game, Probabilistic Operators, Two Probabilistic Bits, Quantum Coin Flipping, Qiskit Installation & Testing, and First Quantum Programs with Qiskit
Day 2 | December 2, 2025 (13:00–15:30 UTC+0)
Basics of Quantum Systems
Topics: Hadamard Operator, One Qubit, Quantum State, Visualization of a Real-Valued Qubit, Superposition and Measurement, Operations on the Unit Circle, Rotations, Reflections, Quantum Tomography
Day 3 | December 3, 2025 (13:00–15:30 UTC+0)
Multiple Qubits and Quantum Communication Protocols
Topics: Two Qubits, Phase Kickback, Multiple Control Constructions, Entanglement and Superdense Coding, Quantum Teleportation
Day 4 | December 4, 2025 (13:00–15:30 UTC+0)
Grover’s Search
Topics: Inversion About the Mean, Grover’s Search (One-Qubit Representation), and Grover’s Search (Implementation)
Day 5 | December 5, 2025 (13:00–17:00 UTC+0)
Quantum Machine Learning Core Topics: Data Encoding and Dataset Preparation, Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms, Quantum Applications with QML
Special Sessions
December 1–4, 2025 (13:00–15:30 UTC+0)
Day 1–2: Quantum Programming for Hackathon
Day 3–4: QML Preparatory Sessions for Day 5 Session
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 for our quantum programming workshop
You may apply for the workshop by filling the application form until November 30, 2025, 11:59 PM (UTC+0). Applications later than the deadline won’t be taken into consideration.
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Workshop Team
Organizers: Kenneth Isamade, Amrit Chhetri, and Agnieszka Wolska
Lead Coordinator: Kenneth Isamade
Lead Instructor: Amrit Chhetri
QML Instructor: Jibran Rashid
QML Preparatory Instructor: Amrit Chhetri
QBronze Instructors: Kiran Patil, Laiba Tahir, and Rithik Rai
Mentors: Saurabh Suman, Harsh Mehta and Winny Babu
Contact: kenneth [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.