A pre-workshop short course will be held on Wednesday, August 5, at Featheringill Hall/Jacobs Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus, where the main workshop will also take place. The registration fee includes instructor materials, refreshments, and lunch.
Registration for the short course is now closed.
The short course on quantum computing will use the following textbook as a reference. We must squeeze a semester's worth of material into an 8-hour short course! You will get the most out of the course if you read the material (the text above) prior to the workshop.
Audacious plan:
Chapter 1 (Intro): Read on your own
Chapter 2 (Software): Download/test the software before the workshop
Chapter 3 (Math): Read on your own
Chapter 4 (Engr problems): Brief review (15 mins)
Chapter 5 (Annealing): Skip
Chapter 6 (Real # encoding): Skip
Chapter 7 (Qubits): Brief review (15 mins)
Chapter 8 (Gates): Brief review (15 mins)
Chapter 9 (Circuits): Brief review (15 mins)
Chapter 10 (Tests): Brief review (15 mins)
Chapter 11 (Hardware): Brief review (15 mins)
Chapter 12 (Grover): Brief review (30 mins)
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Chapter 13 (Vector Encoding): Discussion (50 mins)
Chapter 14 (Matrix Encoding): Discussion (50 mins)
<Lunch>
Chapter 15 (QAE): Discussion (30 mins)
Chapter 16 (QFT): If time permits (30 mins), else skip
Chapter 17 (QPE): If time permits (30 mins), else skip
Chapter 18 (HHL): If time permits (30 mins), else skip
<Break>
Chapter 19 (QSVT): Discussion (60 mins)
Chapter 20 (QAOA): Skip
Chapter 21 (VQLS): Skip
Open Topics: Discussion (60 mins)