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Bonus: Interview with David Deutsch

Hi all,

I haven’t been able to host events these last two months as I took on the role of the president with Oxford Quantum Information Society. We’ve been doing many events at Oxford - I posted below the recording of the Ask me Anything session we hosted with David Deutsch, one of the pioneers of quantum computing.

We will be back at Quantum Conversations with a new website, be on the lookout!

Mert Esencan

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QuConv XV: Classiq - Automated Synthesis of Circuits

DATE: Wednesday, Mar 30, 2022 10:00 AM PT

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Happy Spring! This month we’ll be hosting two speakers from Classiq, a quantum algorithm design company from Tel Aviv, Israel. The Classiq platform allows one to quickly and efficiently create complex quantum circuits. By defining a set of parameters, such as the number of gates, circuit depth and entanglement, users can produce optimized circuits through the Classiq platform and execute them on different cloud and gate-based systems.

Yuval Boger runs global marketing at Classiq as the Chief Marketing Officer. He is an alumni of Tel Aviv University, graduting with distinction in Physics. After working in the technology industry for a few years, Yuval went back to school to complete an MBA at Northwestern. Since then, he’s had leading roles in high-tech companies, such as CEO or lead product management / marketing. Yuval is also known as the “the Qubit Guy”, the host of the QC podcast series with the same name.

Nir Minerbi is the co-founder and CEO of Classiq. After graduating from Tel Aviv University with a master’s in Electrical and Electronic’s engineering, Nir co-founded Classiq in late 2019. Before Classiq, Nir also had leading roles at the Israel Defence Forces.

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QuConv XIV: ColdQuanta

DATE: Wednesday, Feb 23, 2022 10:00 AM PT

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This February we’ll have two speakers from ColdQuanta join our discussion! ColdQuanta focuses on cold atom methods to offer quantum information services. With its “quantum everywhere” approach, ColdQuanta offers a multitude of quantum machines and devices, such as quantum computers, networks, and sensors.

Paul Lipman is President of Quantum Information Platforms at ColdQuanta. Paul completed a BSc in Physics at he Victoria University of Manchester and after working at Accenture, joined the Graduate School of Business at Stanford for an MBA. He has since held leadership positions at various tech companies and is now focusing on quantum technologies.

Mark Saffman is the Chief Scientist for Quantum Information at ColdQuanta. Mark is an experimental physicist working in atomic physics, quantum and nonlinear optics, and quantum information processing. Mark received his B.Sc. in Applied Physics from Caltech and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After working as a Senior Scientist at Riso National Laboratory in Denmark, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty as a Professor of Physics. His research team was the first to demonstrate a quantum CNOT gate and entanglement between two trapped neutral atom qubits in 2010. Mark is also the co-author of a forthcoming book titled Quantum Information Processing: Theory and Implementation.

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QuConv XIII: QC Ware - Quantum Optimization

DATE: Wednesday, Jan 26th, 2022 10:00 AM PT

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This month we’ll be hosting two speakers from QC Ware - the CEO Matt Johnson and the US Head of Algorithms Wim van Dam. Focusing on quantum algorithms, QC Ware was founded in Palo Alto, minutes away from the Stanford campus, in 2014. With a team of experts, QC Ware offer quantum computing software solutions to its clients, in addition to managing a quantum data science product named Forge. Matt will provide an overview of QC Ware and the industry while Wim will talk about quantum optimization.

Matt Johnson attended the United States Air Force Academy before going to Wharton to complete an MBA in Finance and Operations Management. He has been leading QC Ware’s business since co-founding it in 2014.

Wim van Dam completed his early education in the Netherlands and completed a PhD in CS at the University of Amsterdam, in addition to getting a PhD in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at the University of Oxford. He joined the UC Santa Barbara faculty shortly after, and was a full time professor when he left to lead algorithms at QC Ware on March 2019.

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QuConv XII: Bleximo - A Superconducting Startup

DATE: Wednesday, Dec 1st, 2021, 9:30AM PT Sign up to receive the Zoom link!

We are hosting two speakers from Bleximo at QuConv XII. Bleximo is a superconducting quantum computing startup based in Berkeley, California. Bleximo utilizes “quantum accelerators” that work together with  classical computers to solve classically impractical/impossible problems.

Fabio Sanches will talk about software at Bleximo. Fabio got his PhD from Berkeley focusing on quantum information theory and quantum gravity. He worked at QC Ware as their Quantum Computing Services Lead before joining Bleximo as their Head of Quantum Engineering.

Ziggy Q Kotchetkov will be focusing on hardware, specifically cryogenics. Ziggy got his Bachelor’s from Harvard in mechanical engineering in 2016 and joined the quantum computing industry through Bleximo in 2017 as their mechanical engineer.

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QC XI: Cat Qubits

NEW DATE: Wednesday, July 28th, 2021, 9:30AM PT

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For Quantum Conversations XI, we’ll be talking about building a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer. Our speakers are from Alice & Bob, a hardware company based in Paris that aims to build logical qubits from self-correcting superconducting bits - or cat qubits!

Sébastien Jezouin is the Chief Experimental Officer of Alice & Bob. After doing his PhD focusing on electronic quantum circuits, he worked on on superconducting circuits and developed a quantum limited amplifier as a post-doc, before joining Alice & Bob.

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QC X: The Landscape of Academic Literature in Quantum Technologies

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Join us for the 10th Quantum Conversations session, where we will look at an extensive study academic literature in quantum technologies.

The event will take place on May 26th, Wednesday, 9:30am PT.

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Speaker:

Zeki Seskir received his M.Sc. degrees in Physics (2015), and Science and Technology Policy Studies (2019), and is a Ph.D. candidate in Physics at METU, Ankara.

His research interests include quantum networks, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum education, quantum games, technology assessment, science and technology studies, and societal impact of quantum technologies. He is a member of Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

Abstract:

In this study, we investigated the academic literature on quantum technologies (QT) using bibliometric tools. We used a set of 49,823 articles obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) database using a search query constructed through expert opinion. Analysis of this revealed that QT is deeply rooted in physics, and the majority of the articles are published in physics journals. Keyword analysis revealed that the literature could be clustered into three distinct sets, which are (i) quantum communication/cryptography, (ii) quantum computation, and (iii) physical realizations of quantum systems. We performed a burst analysis that showed the emergence and fading away of certain key concepts in the literature. This is followed by co-citation analysis on the highly cited articles provided by the WoS, using these we devised a set of core corpus of 34 publications. Comparing the most highly cited articles in this set with respect to the initial set we found that there is a clear difference in most cited subjects. Finally, we performed co-citation analyses on country and organization levels to find the central nodes in the literature. Overall, the analyses of the datasets allowed us to cluster the literature into three distinct sets, construct the core corpus of the academic literature in QT, and to identify the key players on country and organization levels, thus offering insight into the current state of the field. Search queries and access to figures are provided in the appendix.

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QC IX: Quantum Finance - Academia & Industry

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For the third QC of 2021, we will be focusing on financial applications of quantum computing solutions - both theoretical and practical!

The event will take place on April 7th, Wednesday, 9am PT.

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Our speakers are:

Prof Myungshik Kim, Chair in Theoretical Quantum Information Sciences, Imperial University

Prof Kim’s focus is on quantum optics and quantum information theory. He has been elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2019, and also holds an MBA. He has taught on financial mathematics before as well, and its extension on options pricing.

Dmitriy Chermoshentsev, Researcher @ Russian Quantum Center

Dmitriy currently works at the Skolkovo Insitute of Science and Technology and Russian Quantum Center. His focus is on materials physics & atomic, molecular and optical physics. Dmitriy also works on practical financial applications of quantum computing methods.

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QC VIII: Quantum Machine Learning with Sigmoid!

We will be hosting four speakers from Sigmoid,  a data solutions company leveraging Open Source and Cloud Technologies to develop innovative frameworks around data analytics.

Scheduled for Thursday Feb 25th, 12:30PM PST

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Our main topic will be "Implementing Quantum Machine learning algorithms on IBM Q Environment."

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The speakers are:

Ashish Heda works as the Vice President (Data Science and AI/ML) at Sigmoid Analytics with 14+ years of experience in Data Science and consulting, and Masters in Mathematics and Scientific Computing from IIT-Kanpur, India. He did his internship in Quantum Computing at University of Rennes, IRMAR, France on the topic of "Quantum Random Walks" in 2005. Topics to cover: Quantum Random Walks and application in text search algorithms

Bhaskar Ammu is a Senior Data Scientist at Sigmoid. He specializes in designing data science solutions for clients, building database architectures, and managing projects and teams. Topics to cover: Exploring quantum machine learning algorithms in IBM qiskit library

Amit Patidar is a Data Scientist at Sigmoid. He works with data and application of Machine Learning algorithms. Currently, he is focusing on Quantum Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems and Big Data architecture. Topics to cover: Implementation of Q-SVM

Aniruddh Rawat is a Data Scientist at Sigmoid. He works with data and application of Machine Learning algorithms. Currently, he is focusing on Quantum Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems. Topics to cover: Implementation of Q-GANs

Hope to see you there!

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QC VII: Make 2021 Your Quantum Leap Year!

NOTE: THE TIME HAS CHANGED!

We start at 4pm San Francisco time with the first talk and 5pm will be the second talk and then a general discussion.

We are kicking off 2021 with a talk on AWS Bracket and our Stanford Quantum friends running a discussion,

How can we make the Most Impact on the world with Quantum Computing in 2021?

As always, RSVP here.

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4pm PT:

Introduction to Quantum Computing with AWS Bracket

We will discuss quantum computing in general and how to get started running our own simulations on hardware.

Speaker: Brett Koonce

Brett Koonce is the CTO of Quarkworks, a mobile consulting agency. He enjoys writing and cooking strange new things in his free time. His book "Convolutional Neural Networks with Swift for TensorFlow" is now available for order from Apress.

5pm PT:

Entanglement isn't just for computation: frontiers in quantum sensing

Speaker: Mark Kasevich, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford.

Hosts: Yosh Getachew, Events Chair, Stanford Quantum; Mert Esencan, Events Chair Emeritus, Stanford Quantum

We're happy to confirm that Stanford Quantum will coorganize Quantum COnversations going forward.

Mert Esencan and Rishi Sreedhar have summarized the Quantum Learning resources from C6 in the following Google Doc:

http://chief.sc/qc-resources-1

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Quantum Conversations VI: Learning and Self-Learning!

Our last QC in 2020 is on the last Wednesday of the last month of 20the year, December 23 at 9:10am Pacific!  Zoom link, join after 9am Pacific on Wednesday.

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Many members in our community are learning Quantum Computing, and they are doing it themselves. Using online courses, books, meetups, and so on.

Let us share all the ways to do it, including resources, areas of focus, things to play with, and so on.

What works, what doesn't.

Study groups -- how do they fare? Are you a member of one? Are you a lead?

Online courses and notebooks?

Let's discuss it all!

Mert Esencan of Stanford Quantum will be the moderator and also first speaker!  Mert helps co-organize QC and is both a student and a practitioner of Quantum Computing.

Rishi Sreedhar will give a lightning talk sharing a set of great resources for learning Quantum Computing.

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Quantum Conversations V: Tequila!  October 28, 9:10am PST

We are happy to announce our fifth meeting, dedicated to Tequila!

With QC5, we switch to a main talk + lightning talks and discussion format. Please propose or solicit a lightning talk as you RSVP!

We'll start at 9:10 as usual with the introductions, and Alba will join us at 9:30am for the talk. We expect to run through about 10:30am and then have Q&A/discussion until 11am.

Designing Variational Quantum Algorithms with Tequila

In the last few years, we have witnessed the proliferation of quantum computing languages. Many companies and research groups have developed their own tools to construct, simulate, and experimentally implement quantum algorithms. This fact has also accentuated the lack of standardized methods to solve problems using quantum computing. Heuristics play a crucial role in the development of new methods resulting in high demand for flexible and reliable ways to implement, test, and share new ideas. Inspired by all these demands, we introduce Tequila, a development package for quantum algorithms in python designed for fast and flexible implementation of novel quantum algorithms such as electronic structure and other fields. Tequila operates with abstract expectation values that can be combined, transformed, differentiated, and optimized in a blackboard style fashion. On evaluation, the abstract data structures are automatically compiled to run on state of the art quantum simulators or interfaces. In this talk, I will introduce the Tequila package, explain its current features, and present several usage examples.

Speaker: Alba Cervera Lierta did her doctoral studies in entanglement applications in quantum information at the University of Barcelona. She also worked on quantum algorithms for near-term applications at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Her background includes particle physics phenomenology, multipartitie entanglement and quantum information foundations. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Alán Aspuru-Guzik group at the University of Toronto. She is working on variational quantum algorithms and computational tools for quantum simulation.

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Quantum Conversations IV, September 30, 9:10am Pacific

We have two exciting talks -- quantum errors and benchmarking quantum computers.

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Agenda

9:10-9:30 Introductions

9:30-10:30 Talk 1 + Q&A

10:30-11:30 Talk 2 + Q&A (approximate, back to back)

11:30-12 Lightning talks and General discussion

Andrea Mari, Mitigating quantum errors with Mitiq

This demo/talk introduces an open-source package for error-mitigation in quantum computation using zero-noise extrapolation. Error-mitigation techniques improve computational performance (with respect to noise) using minimal overhead in quantum resources by relying on a mixture of quantum sampling and classical post-processing techniques. Our error-mitigation package interfaces with multiple quantum computing software stacks, and we demonstrate improved performance on a variety of benchmarks performed on IBM and Rigetti quantum processors. We describe the library using code snippets to demonstrate usage and discuss features, support, and contribution guidelines. We're looking forward to your feedback!

Andrea Mari is a physicist, with experience in academic and industrial research. PhD in Physics. Interested in quantum technologies,machine learning, computer vision, internet-of-things. 

This is Mitiq recently uploaded white paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04417, and the package documentation can be found at https://mitiq.readthedocs.io/, including the full API documentation, hands-on tutorials and additional information on quantum error mitigation. 

Dan Mills, Benchmarking Near-Tern Quantum Computers

One might imagine that verifying a quantum computation would take at least as much computing power as performing the computation itself. For example, in general it is thought that simulating a quantum computation on a classical computer should require inaccessible computing power. While there are in fact verification schemes for large error corrected quantum computers, these schemes are not accessible by near-term devices, and reducing the resource requirement for the verification of near-term devices is an active area of research. In this talk I review progress in this direction, such as quantum volume and cross entropy benchmarking. I will also discuss progress in and prospects for developing application-motivated benchmarking schemes, and ways in which these can encourage progress in all layers of the quantum computing stack. Dan Mills is a Research Scientist at Cambridge Quantum Computing. He received a masters degree in Mathematics from The University of Warwick and is in the process of writing his PhD thesis in Quantum Computing at The University of Edinburgh. In between his studies he has worked as a researcher at several technology companies.

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Quantum Conversations By the Bay III, August 26, 9:10am Pacific

In this installment of our series, we turn out attention to the two areas not yet covered in QCs: Hardware and Investment.  Hardware is what makes quantum computing possible and its progress will determine everything else.  We’re pleased to host Nick Bronn of IBM with fundamental insights and overview of the field.

Another barometer of practical progress is startup investment.  In the true spirit of Silicon Valley, we want to provide a market perspective to see where most work and employment will occur, based on what the startups think.  We welcome questions and discussions as always, and would be happy to hear lightning talks after the main program – please propose yours in the RSVP!

(1) Enabling Near-term Noisy Quantum Hardware with Qiskit Pulse Qiskit is IBM’s open source framework for quantum computing, and Qiskit Pulse provides pulse-level control of deployed quantum computers over the cloud. In this talk, I will overview the control and measurement of superconducting transmon qubits with microwave pulses, programming such pulses with Qiskit Pulse. Finally, we’ll summarize some recent applications of Qiskit Pulse. 

Speaker: Nick Bronn is a Research Staff Member in the Experimental Quantum Computing group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. He received B.S.’s in Applied Mathematics and Physics and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech, a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics from Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Illinois supported in part by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Since joining IBM in 2013, Nick has been responsible for qubit device design, packaging, and cryogenic measurement, working towards scaling up larger numbers of qubits on a device and integration with novel implementations of microwave and cryogenic hardware.

(2) The Quantum Tech investment landscape - who, where and how much?

2020 has seen record investments into Quantum Tech startups from both public and private capital. We will take a close look at the hard data to get a sense of how much is being invested and where, who is investing and what they are looking for.

Speaker: André König is a published author, speaker and expert on DeepTech with 25 years of Fortune 500, consulting and startup experience. He is the CEO of Interference Advisors, the premier data provider within Quantum Tech, Chairman of OneQuantum, the leading Quantum Tech community organization, and Managing Partner of Entanglement Capital, a Quantum Tech investment fund and startup accelerator.

He studied Quantum Computing at MIT (certificates) and holds a MBA in Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as well as a Masters in Business from ICN School of Management. He speaks English, German and French, and has competed in national small boat sailing championships.

Please RSVP here: http://chief.sc/qc3-signup.

Agenda: 

9:10-9:30 intros

9:30-10:30 Quantum hardware + Q&A

10:30-11:30 Quantum investment + Q&A

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Quantum Conversations By the Bay II, June 24, 9am Pacific

We had a great success with our inaugural meeting, with more than 80 registrations.  Given the feedback, we decided to keep the structured program as one main talk.  It will be followed by a Q&A and general discussion, where we will also welcome lightning talks, as before.  We were fortunate to start with a great lightning talk from Stanford already.

For our June meeting, we’re happy to welcome JPMorgan Chase team!

Simulating Quantum State and Computations with Kubernetes

Quantum Systems have state that evolves according to simple transformations. We will define a domain for Quantum Computing in the Go language, and show an implementation of a simulator on top of Kubernetes. Quantum Computing practitioners use simulators more than they do real quantum computers. We will see that quantum state and quantum gates map perfectly to the paradigm of distributed computing. We will also show a quantum state visualizer and real life examples based on some of our papers and contributions to the Qiskit framework. Vitaliy Dorum is a software engineer at JPMorgan Chase, specializing in distributed computing and software-defined networks.

Constantin Gonciulea is a Distinguished Engineer at JPMorgan Chase and leads the Advanced Computing team in Consumer & Community Banking.

Agenda -- all times in PDT

9am -- Introductions

Introduce yourself in under 30 seconds!

9:20 -- Opening Remarks

Sebastian Hassinger, IBM Quantum Academic Partner Program Leader

9:30am -- main talk

10:30am -- Q&A followed by general discussion and lightning talks

Looking forward to see everybody again soon!

As always, email me at alexy@chiefscientist.org with talk proposals, tutorial ideas, and more.

The video:

https://chief.sc/qc2-video

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Quantum Conversations By the Bay I, May 27, 8am Pacific

We’re happy to announce the first online meeting of the Quantum researchers from around the world.  We start with two talks, from University of Chicago and from Oxford.  Before the talks, we’ll do introductions, and afterwards, we’ll have time for Q&A and an unconference -- a format when audience members can propose and give their own talks!  

Talk 1:  Quantum circuits: from structure to software

Quantum circuits are a de facto assembly language for quantum software. Programs are described as list of primitive operations, or gates, which are run in sequence on a quantum computer to perform a computation. Just like with classical software, there is more that one way to write a program to do the same job, and so it's important to find programs that do that job as quickly and cheaply as possible. Looking at quantum circuits just as lists of gates doesn't tell us a whole lot about what computation is being performed, or how it might be optimised. However, if we "break open" quantum gates, we see a rich graphical/algebraic structure inside called the ZX-calculus. This can be used not only for making quantum circuits more efficient, but also for performing other critical tasks like bug-checking. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of these techniques, and how they can be used with an open source software library called PyZX.

Aleks Kissinger has been an Associate Professor of Quantum Computing in Oxford's Computer Science Department since Autumn 2019. Before that, he was an Assistant Professor of Quantum Structures and Logic at Radboud University in Nijmegen. He is the co-author of Picturing Quantum Processes (a.k.a. "The Dodo Book"), and works on the applications of diagrams and logical structures in the foundations of physics and quantum software.

Talk 2:  Preparation of an Exciton Condensate of Photons on a 53-Qubit Quantum Computer

Quantum computation promises an exponential speedup of certain classes of classical calculations through the preparation and manipulation of entangled quantum states.  So far most molecular simulations on quantum computers, however, have been limited to small numbers of particles.  Here we prepare a highly entangled state on a 53-qubit IBM quantum computer, representing 53 particles, which reveals the formation of an exciton condensate of photon particles and holes.  While elusive for more than 50 years, such condensates were recently achieved for electron-hole pairs in graphene bilayers and metal chalcogenides.  Our result with a photon condensate has the potential to further the exploration of this new form of condensate that may play a significant role in realizing efficient room-temperature energy transport.

David Mazziotti is a Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Chemistry and the James Franck Institute.  He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Princeton University in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard University in 1999. He performed postdoctoral research at Duke University and Princeton University.  He has been awarded the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering and the Microsoft Newton Award for his development of advanced methods for strongly correlated quantum systems.  He developed the add-on Quantum Chemistry Toolbox for computational chemistry in Maple.  Professor Mazziotti’s research interests include electronic structure and properties of strongly correlated molecules and materials, quantum information, and quantum computing.

LeeAnn Sager is a second-year graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Chicago.  She has been conducting research into condensation phenomena and quantum computation under the tutelage of Prof. David Mazziotti since mid-July 2018.  Prior to that, she obtained her B.S. in Chemistry with minors in Math and Physics from Indiana University where she investigated non-classical carbocations through use of molecular dynamics simulations.  LeeAnn is a recipient of the 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Agenda (all times Pacific AM):

8:00-8:30: introductions

8:30-9:30: Aleks’s talk, with Q&A

9:30-10:30: LeeAnn and David’s talk, with Q&A

10:30-11:30: Open floor and Unconference

Unconference: propose short ad hoc talks to follow the main program.  You may either give or request talks.  We’ll discuss the proposals and select the ones we’ll hear dynamically as a part of the general discussion following the main talks!  

Questions/suggestions/ideas/talk proposals?  Email Alexy at: 

alexy@chiefscientist.org

Welcome to the community and hope to see you soon in our quantum conversations by the bay!

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A new Quantum Research Community

Quantum Conversations (QC) is a community of researchers working on Quantum Computing. We bring the informal unconference format to a meeting, at first virtual due to the global events, to connect all of us working on imagining and building the future.

Our industrial partner, IBM, is making their resources, expertise, and long-term planning horizon available to the research partners in an interactive way -- sharing capabilities and working with the community to identify the most promising goals and work to be done to get there. From reexamining classic research with new hardware to applying new paradigms to existing areas of science, QC will enable collaboration on discovery through community.

Quantum Conversations By the Bay follows a decade of community stewardship By the Bay, and its principal, Dr. Alexy Khrabrov. Dr. Khrabrov is the founder and organizer of Scale By the Bay, Bay Area AI, and other communities of practice uniting thousands of computer scientists, software engineers, technical leaders, data enterprise executives, founders, researchers, and many others. Dr. Khrabrov was a researcher at Dartmouth, NECI and UPenn as well as a software engineer at Amazon, a cofounder at Versa (an edtech startup), the Chief Scientist at Nitro (a global smart document company), and the Chief Community Officer at the Trusted IoT Alliance. With 1,000+ technical talks By the Bay on functional.tv, we share knowledge generated By the Bay around the world and earned a reputation for merit and rigor in technical quality. learning, and community building.

QC will be run as an unconference -- the participants will determine the topics of interest. We’ll start all together in a joint session and go over possible topics, probably with a panel to kicks things off. A spreadsheet will be used to propose and prioritize talks. Speakers will pitch their proposals for a few minutes each and then we’ll vote on the talks we want to see. Once the number of themes grows large, we can also use the plenary session to determine which breakout sessions are to follow.

At the end of the day, we all get together from the breakout sessions and share the lessons learned and the questions to ask for the next meeting. We hope that will launch the flywheel of good, generating ideas, collaborations, helping careers and creating new shareable knowledge.

The first meeting will be held online on April 22, 2020.

If you're interested in participating, please fill out a short form.

I'm Interested in joining Quantum Conversations in April