Online meetup: Quantum Computing Algorithms

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Schedule:

19:15 - Opening

19:20 - Dr. Ross Duncan

20:10 - Prof. Wim van Dam- Comparing Quantum Optimization Algorithms using Ordinal Utility

21:00 - Dr. Pooya Ronagh

21:50 - Closing event

Dr. Ross Duncan- a research fellow in the MSP group in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. Prof. Duncan is interested in quantum computation, the foundations of quantum mechanics, category theory and its application in computer science, logic and physics, and graphical techniques for reasoning.

In his other job, he is the Head of Quantum Software at Cambridge Quantum Computing Ltd.

Prof. Duncan is the co-inventor (with Bob Coecke) of the ZX-calculus, a string diagrammatic language for quantum systems. I initiated the quantomatic project (with Lucas Dixon and Aleks Kissinger), a graphical theorem prover, intended for reasoning about quantum systems.

Prof. Duncan is a member of the editorial board of the open access journal Compositionality. Please feel free to contact me if you wish to submit an article to the journal -- only your best stuff though, no rubbish!

Pof. 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 is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. He is an Associate Researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research is focused on the synergy between mathematical programming, machine learning, and quantum computation. Pooya is trained as an algebraic geometer and a theoretical computer scientist. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology. He then received his Masters of Science 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 K. Behrend, he developed a novel proposal for the theory of generalized Donaldson-Thomas invariants motivated by applications in string theory.

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