TQT workshop curriculum 2015

A full day is planned for Saturday, December 5, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm ending with a dinner for all participants. On Sunday we will end at 4:00 pm.

The Teaching Quantum Technology workshop (TQT) will comprise of:

  • 25% lectures
  • 50% hands-on and investigatory activities
  • 25% enrichment activities

You will also participate in a daily one-hour round table on how to incorporate what you’ve learned into your curriculum.

Lectures include:

  • The rise of quantum mechanics as the ultimate theory of nature
  • What is quantum information science and technology
  • How quantum technology will revolutionize today and tomorrow’s society

You will get the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities including:

  • Working with polarizers to explain quantum superposition and entanglement
  • Using pens to demonstrate the Uncertainty principle
  • Measuring the width of a hair by revisiting the Double slit experiment
  • Studying the quantization of the atomic spectra
  • Demonstrating how quantum cryptography works using coins and boxes
  • Playing the quantum coin flip game you can never lose

For your own learning, we will be offering some additional enrichment activities including a:

  • Quantum cryptography demo that you will design and build
  • Tour the state-of-the-art laboratories of IQC
  • Keynote lecture on quantum technology