QBronze39 | Quantum Computing and Programming | November 3-8, 2020

We, as QCousins, are organizing many QBronze workshops as a part of QWorldChallenge 2020 Autumn Edition.

We are inviting high school students, university and graduate students, researchers, professors, and working people to learn the basics of quantum computing and how to write simple quantum programs.

The workshop will be held online in Mexico between November 3 and 8 and there is no registration fee. During the workshop, we will use the introductory tutorial Bronze by QWorld. Participants are required to know English to follow our tutorial but the mentors will speak both in English and Spanish. We will use the Discord to conduct the workshop and we will have daily Zoom meetings. Besides, the participants will be able to use the platform https://quantumcomputing.com by Strangeworks.

The participants completing the workshop successfully will receive a diploma.

Participants will be watching the lecture videos and completing the tasks on their own. Mentor support will be provided according to the following schedule for participants to ask their questions and share their progress with the mentors. The sessions are given in the time zone GMT-5.

  • 18:00-20:00, Saturday (Oct 31): Installation session
  • 12:00-13:00 & 18:00-21:00 from Tuesday to Friday (Nov 3-6)
  • 12:00-14:00 and 16:00-18:00, Saturday & Sunday (Nov 7-8)

There will also be daily short zoom meetings (their schedule will be announced later). The participants are expected to work individually at least 16 hours to complete the following sections of Bronze: basics of classical systems, basics of quantum systems, basic quantum operators, quantum correlation and quantum protocols, and quantum search algorithm.

https://gitlab.com/qkitchen/basics-of-quantum-computing

The tutorial is a collection of Jupyter notebooks, and each notebook has a recorded lecture. We use python to solve the tasks and Qiskit library to code quantum programs. The participants should know at least one programming language, and they should make themselves familiar with Python before the workshop if they do not know Python. We will share the installation instructions and a few notebooks on basics of mathematics and participants should review them before the workshop starts.

This is also the entangling event of QMexico with the QCousins network of QWorld.


Application

The applications are closed.

You can apply for Global Quantum Programming Workshop on November 23-28, 2020.


Workshop Team

Organizers (QMexico): Javier Orduz, Johan Katherine Noreña, Bruno Ramírez, Ricardo Olvera, Claudia Zendejas, Edgar Quiroz, and Andrea Delgado
Organizer (QWorld): Abuzer Yakaryilmaz
QMentors: Javier Orduz, Ricardo Olvera, Edgar Quiroz, Bruno Ramírez, and Andrea Delgado

Contact: qmexico [at] qworld.lu.lv


Code of Conduct

Our event is dedicated to providing a harassment-free workshop experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media. Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event.

We respect the minors (children under age 18) and we must make every effort to protect their rights. All private relationships, private communications (including social media channels), or sexual contacts with minors are prohibited.

The default communication channel between the organizers and participants is e-mail. Except filing the application form, the contact info of any attendee or participant cannot be requested by any person from organizer side (i.e., mentor, educator, speaker, organizer, sponsor, or volunteer). On the other hand, any person from organizer side may share his or her contact info with a participant who is not a minor, upon request by the participant.

A minor can access the emails of the main organizers on the event’s website. If a minor interested in working with a person from organizer side for scientific or pedagogical purpose, then he or she should read this document before contacting this person:
http://qworld.lu.lv/index.php/code-of-ethics-and-conduct/#minors

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the organizers immediately. You may also contact directly the members of the Ethics Committee of QWorld.
http://qworld.lu.lv/index.php/code-of-ethics-and-conduct/
Check the above link for more details.


The accepted applicants younger than 18 years old must provide a consent form signed by a legal guardian.

Please download a copy of the consent form as RTF (rich text format) or PDF by using the links below. The blank part must be filled and then signed by a legal guardian of the minor. The signed document should be scanned and then send to the organizers by email (abuzer@lu.lv and jaorduz@ciencias.unam.mx).

consent form in ENG-SPANISH: RTF| PDF