Toward Productive Quantum Programming

LOCATION CHANGE!!!
This talk is moving! It will now be at Vandalia Tower, hosted by Lab651 (thanks to Justin Grammens for the use of their space!) The new address is:

550 Vandalia St Suite 231, St Paul, MN 55114

This is a little bit south of University Avenue. Take the main elevator to the 2nd floor, then turn immediately to the right, and you're there. Parking is plentiful, and Lake Monster Brewing is right downstairs to mingle afterward. Still happening at 6pm on Oct 8th.

Description
On October 8th, the Minnesota Quantum Computing meetup welcomes Dr. Steve Reinhardt, who will talk about his recent joint paper "An Abstraction Hierarchy Toward Productive Quantum Programming", presented this September at the IEEE Quantum Week in Montréal. We will meet at 6pm October 8th at 550 Vandalia St Suite 231, St Paul, MN 55114

Here's Steve's description of the work:

"We coauthors of "An Abstraction Hierarchy Toward Productive Quantum Programming" (arXiv:2405.13918) believe that an effective set of abstractions will accelerate the pace of quantum software development and thereby the emergence of a sustainable quantum computing industry. This talk will cover our framing of the problem in the context of similar prior efforts for (classical) parallel computing and sketch what we see as profitable areas to flesh out next."

Throughout his career in classical supercomputing / high performance computing, quantum computing, and high-end AI/analytics, Steve Reinhardt has focused on delivering the power of emerging computer architectures to production users and enabling simpler access to that performance. From early parallel programming interfaces on Cray Research's shared-memory X-MP and Y-MP systems (e.g., Autotasking, an OpenMP precursor) and distributed-memory Cray T3D and T3E, and SGI Altix and Altix UV systems (e.g., shmem, UPC, and CoArray Fortran) to rapid-development languages for graph analytics (Python APIs and SPARQL) to method-specific approaches for D-Wave quantum computers (e.g., the QUBO form), Steve has developed and advocated for high productivity programming models that still deliver performance.