Due to the APS March Meeting being canceled, IQC has scheduled a mini-symposium for University of Waterloo students to give their accepted talks.
Talks are open for all to attend.
Variational quantum algorithms such as VQE or QAOA aim to simulate low-energy properties of quantum many-body systems or find approximate solutions of combinatorial optimization problems. Such algorithms employ variational states generated by low-depth quantum circuits to minimize the expected value of a quantum or classical Hamiltonian.
Approximate counting -- given a black-box function f:[N]->{0,1}, multiplicatively estimate the number of x's such that f(x)=1 -- is one of the most basic problems in quantum algorithms. In 1998, Brassard, Hoyer, Mosca, and Tapp (BHMT) gave a fully quadratic quantum speedup for the problem, while Nayak and Wu showed that this speedup was optimal. What else is there to say?
Nigar Sultana
The Quantum Innovators in Computer Science and Mathematics workshop brings together promising researchers working on theoretical aspects of quantum information and computation in computer science and mathematics.
Talks are open for anyone to attend.
The one-day workshop is the third in a series that brings together researchers at Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF), Université Paris-Diderot and the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo. It will feature a full day of talks on recent progress in quantum algorithms and complexity theory, and related areas, made by members of the two institutions, with the idea to foster collaboration.
Maureen Joel Lagos
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
2:30 p.m.
C2-361 (Reading Room)
Abstract:
Le festival Quantum Shorts du court métrage quantique a le plaisir d’annoncer les gagnants de ses 3 principaux prix, choisis parmi les 10 courts métrages remarquables finalistes inspirés par la physique quantique. L’Institut d’informatique quantique (IQC) est un partenaire scientifique du festival.
Maryam Mirkamali
Security in the Quantum Future
Quantum theory is quickly becoming quantum technology.