Online meetup: Quantum Computing Algorithms

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Schedule:19:15 - Opening19:20 - Dr. Ross Duncan - Compilation for NISQ machines20:10 - Prof. Wim van Dam - Comparing Quantum Optimization Algorithms using Ordinal Utility21:00 - Dr. Pooya Ronagh - Optimal control, from classical to quantum21:50 - Closing eventDr. Ross Duncan- Ross Duncan is the head of Quantum Software at Cambridge Quantum Computing Ltd and a permanent Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde. He obtained his Doctorate from Oxford University in 2006 for his thesis “Types for Quantum Computation”. Since then he has held positions as an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Chargé de Recherche at the Univeristé Libre de Bruxelles, and Lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde. His research focusses on the foundations of quantum computing and in particular on the use of category theory and diagrammatic calculi to better understand the structure of quantum states and programs; he is the co-inventor (with Bob Coecke) of the ZX-calculus and has applied this to reason about quantum circuits, measurement-based quantum computation, and quantum error correcting codes. Since joining CQC in 2018 he has focussed on the development of t|ket&gt;, a platform independent optimising compiler and software development framework for near-term quantum computers. Prof. Wim van Dam (QC Ware / UC Santa Barbara) - Wim van Dam is Head Quantum Algorithms (USA) at QC Ware. Dr. van Dam is on leave from UC Santa Barbara where he is a professor at the department of computer science and the department of physics. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oxford, UK in 2000, and in 2002 he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dr. van Dam's research focuses on the theory of quantum computation and quantum communication. His main interest is in the development of new quantum algorithms that give an exponential speed-up when compared with traditional, classical algorithms. He was a postdoc at UC Berkeley, HP Labs Palo Alto, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, and at MIT.Dr. Pooya Ronagh - Pooya directs an R&D lab in 1QB Information Technologies (1QBit) that investigates scalable and applicable quantum computing. Pooya holds BScs in Theoretical Computer Science and Pure Mathematics. He then received his MSc and PhD in Mathematics after studying at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of British Columbia. In his PhD thesis, under the supervision of Kai Behrend, Pooya developed a novel approach to counting quantum invariants of the warped algebro-geometric spaces which describe the spectra of certain supersymmetric string theories. He then pursued a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo where, under the mentorship of Raymond Laflamme and Roger Melko, he studied quantum information processing and various computational aspects of quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computing, and quantum control. Pooya is a Scientific Lead at the Perimeter Institute Quantum Intelligence Lab and continues his academic efforts at the University of Waterloo as a Research Assistant Professor in the following years.

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