Talk Title: Quantum Earth Mover's Distance: A New Approach to Learning Quantum Data Speaker: Professor Milad Marvian, University of New Mexico Milad Marvian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico and also a member of the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC). He…
Talk Title: Quantum Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning for Open Quantum System Simulation Speaker: Dr. Mekena Metcalf, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Merced. Dr. Metcalf was the first graduate student in Prof. Chih-Chun Chien's theory group, and she…
Talk Title: Logical Abstractions for Noisy Variational Quantum Algorithm Simulation. Speaker: Professor Yipeng Huang, Rutgers University Abstract: Existing quantum circuit simulators do not address the traits of variational algorithms, namely: 1) their ability to work with noisy qubits and operations, 2) their repeated execution of the same circuits but with different parameters, and 3) the…
Talk Title: Quantum Coding for Classical Communication Speaker: Travis C. Cuvelier, University Texas at Austin Abstract: Notable features of quantum error correction include the decomposition of continuous communication impairments into discrete channels and the ability of quantum error correcting codes (and their recovery operations) to protect against wide varieties of noise given such a discrete description. Motivated…
Duke & NC State will host a Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminar Sept 3, 2021! Talk Title: Quantum computing with rotation-symmetric bosonic codes Speaker: Josh Combes, University of Colorado, Boulder Abstract: Bosonic mode error-correcting codes are error-correcting codes where a qubit (or qudit) is encoded into one or multiple bosonic modes, i.e., quantum oscillators with an…
NC State & Duke will host a Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminar Sept 10, 2021! Talk Title: Gate-free state preparation for fast VQE molecular simulations Speaker: Oinam Romesh Meitei, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract: The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is currently the flagship algorithm for molecular simulations on near-term quantum computers. The algorithm involves implementing a…
NC State & Duke will host a Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminar Sept 10, 2021! Talk Title: Circuit QED: From Materials to Mathematics Speaker: Andrew Houck, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University Abstract: Superconducting circuits provide a useful toolbox for science at the intersection of many different fields – materials, devices, physics, computer science,…
NC State & Duke will host a Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminar Sept 10, 2021! Talk Title: Software and the honeycomb code Speaker: Craig Gidney, Google AI Quantum Abstract: Recently, Hastings & Haah published a preprint (arXiv:2107.02194) describing a quantum code where the logical observables must dance around. The counter-intuitive nature of the code's observables, and historical precedent,…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Fall Break - No Speaker - Oct. 1, 2021 Have a Happy, Safe and Howling Good Fall Break! We will have a speaker for Oct. 8. at noon. Please Join us then. This is a Hybrid…
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO OCTOBER 29, 2021 - If you have Registered to attend you will receive follow up information directly. This Seminar will be held October 8, 2021 from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title: Topological quantum compiling -- an introduction Speaker: Layla Hormozi Abstract: Topological quantum computers are hypothetical devices in…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Seminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title: Optimizing Tensor Network Ansatzes Speaker: Daniel Stilck França Abstract: Tensor network states form a variational ansatz class widely used, both analytically…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Seminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title: Exploring Airline Gate-Scheduling Optimization Using Quantum Computers Speaker: Hamed Mohammadbagerpoor Abstract: Finding an optimal solution for scheduling, planning, and resource allocation…