Spring School on Quantum Information Processing - Gate-based and Annealing Systems

Europe/Berlin
Building 16.4, room 301 (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Building 16.4, room 301

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße 52428 Jülich
JUNIQ Team
Description

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre will host the spring school on Quantum Information Processing – Applications on Gate-based an Annealing Systems” from March 27 to March 31, 2023. The school focuses on hands-on experiences in developing and implementing algorithms on both gate-based devices and quantum annealers. Therefore the attendees will make use of the cloud-programming platform of the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ) to access quantum devices located at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The hands-on sessions will be accompanied by several lectures covering basic concepts of gate-based and annealing systems, the design and implementation of use-cases, and big-picture lectures, all given by experts from the field. The spring school will be complemented by a poster session where attendees present their research activities to each other.

Topics: Introduction to gate-based quantum computing, introduction to quantum annealing, formulating QUBO problems, Ising Hamiltonians, Variational Quantum Eigensolvers, Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm, simulation of quantum systems, classical vs quantum optimization

Participants have to present a poster. Please submit an abstract for your poster and a motivation letter stating why attending this spring school will be beneficial for your current and future research. Submit abstract and motivation letter in one pdf file to training-juniq@fz-juelich.de with the header "Abstract Spring School 2023". Your application will only be reviewed if abstract, motivation letter and application (follow the "apply now" button) are submitted.

Please note that this is the registration page for on-site participation. In case you want to participate remotely register here.

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    • 1
      Registration
    • 2
      Welcome and Who is Who
      Speaker: Nils Küchler
    • 3
      Introduction to gate-based quantum computing
      Speaker: Dr Dennis Willsch (Forschungszentrum Jülich, JSC)
    • 11:05
      Break
    • 4
      Introduction to quantum annealing
      Speaker: Dr Madita Willsch
    • 12:10
      Lunch break
    • 5
      Formulating QUBO Problems
      Speaker: Dr Dennis Willsch
    • 14:45
      Break
    • 6
      Tours: JUNIQ, HPC Systems, PGI QC Lab
    • 17:10
      Break
    • 7
      Poster session I
    • 8
      Finger food dinner and socializing
    • 9
      Last bus from FZJ to Jülich City
    • 10
      Hardware & Software Setup
      Speaker: Nils Küchler
    • 11
      Variational Algorithms
      Speaker: Dr Manpreet Jattana
    • 12
      The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm
      Speaker: Dr Alejandro Montanez
    • 11:15
      Break
    • 13
      Project work
    • 12:25
      Lunch break
    • 14
      Project work
    • 16:00
      Break
    • 15
      Simulation of quantum systems
      Speaker: Prof. Kristel Michielsen
    • 16
      Research at the Forschungszentrum Jülich
      Speaker: Dr Christopher Wolf
    • 17
      Project work
    • 10:30
      Break
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • 18
      Comparing quantum and classical optimization algorithms
      Speaker: Dr Alejandro Montanez
    • 19
      Visiting Aachen: City Tour, Dinner, Bar
    • 20
      Warum-up & organizational questions
      Speaker: Nils Küchler
    • 21
      Quantum Annealing - A Broader Perspective
      Speaker: Dr Nicholas Chancellor
    • 10:30
      Break
    • 22
      Gate-based Quantum Computing - A Broader Perspective
      Speaker: Prof. David DiVincenzo
    • 12:10
      Lunch break
    • 23
      Project work
    • 24
      Poster session II
    • 25
      Finger food dinner and socializing
    • 26
      Last bus from FZJ to Jülich City
    • 27
      Feedback session
    • 28
      Project presentations
    • 10:30
      Break
    • 29
      Project presentations
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • 30
      The future of quantum computing
      Speaker: Prof. Tommaso Calarco
    • 31
      Wrap-up and goodbye