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Quantum Information Science at Dartmouth
welcomes IBM Q

IBM Quantum Researchers from T. J. Watson will be visiting Dartmouth on January 22, 2019 and will host a series of talks on quantum information science and their new quantum technologies. Other campus-wide events will include a Programming 'n Pizza event and tutorials using their software platform. The detailed event schedule is below (subject to change).

Faculty Contact: James.D.Whitfield@dartmouth.edu, Lorenza.Viola@dartmouth.edu

Event Schedule:

Fermi Systems and Quantum Computing

10:30 am – 11:30 am | Wilder 104

Technical Lecture | Antonio Mezzacapo

Solving correlated Fermi systems is a problem of ubiquitous importance in the fields of chemistry, materials science and fundamental interactions. Quantum computers can help addressing this type of challenges, provided that descriptions of Fermi systems are loaded onto a set of qubits. In this talk I will review methods to represent Fermi quantum states and interactions onto a set of qubits, how to optimize mapping procedures, and how these methods are used to perform computations on quantum hardware. I will then present some recent work in which we introduce connections between such mappings and stabilizer codes, showing that adequate encodings can account for the correction of single-qubit errors.

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Qiskit Aqua: A Library of Quantum Algorithms and Applications

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Moore Hall, Filene Auditorium

Public Lecture | Marco Pistoia

Aqua is an open-source, cross-domain library of quantum algorithms and applications running on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. Aqua is specifically designed to be modular and extensible at multiple levels.  Users with differing levels of experience and scientific interests can contribute to, and extend, Aqua.  With the addition of Aqua, Qiskit has become the only scientific software framework for quantum computing capable of taking high-level domain-specific problem specifications down to circuit generation, compilation, and finally execution on IBM Q quantum hardware.  Aqua supports four applications, in domains that have long been identified as potential areas for quantum computing: Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Optimization, and Finance. New domains can be easily added using the versatile Aqua interfaces.

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QISKit Aqua Tutorials

4:30-5:30 pm | Kemeny 008, Bradley Lecture Hall

A tutorial coding about specific QISKit Aqua functions will be held in Kemeny before the Pizza N Programming event.
  • Richard Chen  : Qiskit Optimization: Combinatorial Optimization with Ising Hamiltonian
  • Jennifer Glick : Quantum machine learning with Qiskit
  • Donny Greenberg : Fitting Non-linear Distributions with quantum machine learning Models in Aqua

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Programming 'N Pizza

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Carson 61

Programming Event |Dartmouth Library and Research Computing

Programming N’ Pizza is a crowd-learning initiative led by the Dartmouth Library and Research Computing. It is an opportunity for the entire Dartmouth community to share, teach and learn programming skills in a casual, fun environment, where beginners and more advanced users can help each other. Each PNP participant can both help and be helped, and learn and teach skills that they want to share or pickup. You may have specific questions you’d like to ask from another participant, or just get started on some new programming and computational skills.

Quantum computing is a fast-developing research discipline that is poised to revolutionize the computer industry while driving advances in fields ranging from physics and chemistry to finance.  Researchers from IBM Quantum will be on-hand during the PNP event to help us learn how to use QISKit to control actual quantum hardware via the Python programming language. And, of course, there's pizza!