Semester IV: Spring 2020

Themes: Quantum simulation, quantum supremacy, and quantum error correction. Flyer.
When? Tuesday's 11:30 am - 12:30 pm.
Where? 1400 BPS.

• [Virtual] QuIC Seminar 44, 04-21-2020.
  • Super Mario is NP-hard.
• [Virtual] QuIC Seminar 43, 04-14-2020.
  • The surface code: Part II.
• [Virtual] QuIC Seminar 42, 04-07-2020.
  • The surface code: Part I.
• [Virtual] QuIC Seminar 41, 03-31-2020.
  • Introduction to quantum error correction.
• [Virtual] QuIC Seminar 40, 03-24-2020.
  • Decoherence.
• QuIC Seminar 39, 02-25-2020.
  • Quantum supremacy II: Supreme quantum states.
• QuIC Seminar 38, 02-18-2020.
  • Quantum supremacy I: Experimental by Niyaz Beysengulov.
• QuIC Seminar 37, 02-11-2020.
  • Quantum simulation: Trotterization.
• QuIC Seminar 36, 02-04-2020.
  • Intro to quantum simulation.
• QuIC Seminar 35, 01-28-2020.
  • The variational quantum eigensolver.
• QuIC Seminar 34, 01-21-2020.
  • How to compute expectation values on a NISQ computer by Ben Hall.
• QuIC Seminar 33, 01-14-2020.
  • Introduction and review of gate-model quantum computing.