QBronze42 | Quantum Computing and Programming | November 16-20, 2020

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

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

The workshop will be held online in Romania between November 16 and 20 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 Romanian. We will use the Discord to conduct the workshop and we will have daily Zoom meetings. Daily homework will be assigned to the participants to check their progress

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, as well as daily online Zoom meetings.

  • Saturday & Sunday (Nov 14-15): Installation support in Discord
  • 14:00-20:00, Monday to Friday (Nov 16-20)

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.


QTalk in Romania

“No one understands quantum computing!” by Mark Mattingley-Scott
15:00 (UTC+2), Friday, November 20, 2020


Application

The applications are closed.


Workshop Team

Organizers: Andrei Voicu Tomut, Sorin Bolos, and Abuzer Yakaryilmaz
QMentors: Andrei Voicu Tomut and Sorin Bolos

Contact: qromania [at] qworld.lu.lv

Yakaryılmaz is partially supported by ERDF project Nr. 1.1.1.5/19/A/005 “Quantum computers with constant memory”.

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 (qromania[at]qworld.lu.lv).

consent form in ENG-RO: RTF | PDF