Semester II: Spring 2019

Theme: Quantum algorithms, computational complexity, and quantum software.

• QuIC Seminar 21, Wednesday 04-24-2019.
  • Boson-sampling.
• QuIC Seminar 20, Wednesday 04-17-2019.
  • Circuit QED Part 2.
• QuIC Seminar 19, Wednesday 04-10-2019.
  • Circuit QED Part 1.
• QuIC Seminar 18, Wednesday 04-03-2019.
  • The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm.
    • Web-based Jupter notebook with QAOA implementation in Cirq for the Ising Hamiltonian.
• QuIC Seminar 17, Wednesday 03-27-2019.
  • The Variational Quantum Eigensolver.
    • Web-based Jupyter notebook with VQE implementation in pyQuil for molecular Hydrogen.
• QuIC Seminar 16, Wednesday 03-20-2019.
  • Quantum Simulation: Hamiltonians in Occupation Number Representation.
• QuIC Seminar 15, Wednesday 03-13-2019.
  • The Hidden Subgroup Problem and the Visible Engineering Problem. (Intro to Modern Quantum Computing).
• QuIC Seminar 14, Wednesday 02-27-2019.
  • Introduction to Quantum Simulation Algorithms.
• ​QuIC Seminar 13 and 14, Wednesday 02-20-2019.
  • ​Shor's Algorithm Part 3.
  • Shor's Algorithm Part 2: The QFT.
• QuIC Seminar 12, Wednesday 02-13-2019.
  • Shor's Algorithm Part 1.
• QuIC Seminar 11, Wednesday 02-06-2019.
  • Simon's Algorithm.
• QuIC Seminar 10. Wednesday 01-23-2019.
  • Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm.
• QuIC Seminar 9, Wednesday 01-16-2019.
  • Recap of the Gate Model, Intro to Query Model, and the Deustch-Jozsa Algorithm.