Quantum for Educators class 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
- Quantum mechanics in today’s technology
- How physics and computer science blend into quantum information and quantum computing
- How quantum uncertainty can be used for unhackable cryptography
- Demystifying superposition, uncertainty, entanglement, and much more
You will get the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities including:
- Working with polarizers to explain quantum superposition and the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics
- Revisit the wave-particle duality using a model interferometer and real experimental results
- Investigate a simple quantum algorithm
- Investigate quantum spin and its uses for medical imaging
- Using pens to demonstrate the uncertainty principle
- Measuring the width of a hair by revisiting the double slit experiment
- Demonstrating how quantum cryptography works using coins and boxes, and much more
For your own learning, we will be offering some additional enrichment activities including:
- Quantum cryptography demo that you will design and build
- Tour the state-of-the-art laboratories of IQC
- Keynote lectures on quantum technology