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Combinatorics & Optimization
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
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Title: Quantum information science for combinatorial optimization
Speaker: Stephen Jordan Affiliation: Microsoft Quantum & University of Maryland Zoom: Please email Emma WatsonAbstract:
Due to input-output bottlenecks, quantum computers are expected to be most applicable to problems for which the quantity of data specifying the instance is small but the computational cost of finding a solution is large. Aside from cryptanalysis and quantum simulation, combinatorial optimization provides some of the best candidates for problems of real-world impact fitting these criteria. Many of these problems are NP-hard and thus unlikely to be solvable on quantum computers with polynomial worst-case time complexity.
Combinatorics & Optimization
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext 33038
PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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