EAGER: Curricula Development of a Quantum Programming Class with Hardware Access

• funded by: NSF (award abstract)
• funding level: $100,000
• duration: 09/01/2019 - 08/31/2020 (no-cost extension until 08/31/2021)

The project aims to transform the landscape of computing by establishing and advancing quantum computing as a means of computational acceleration. The effort has the potential significantly advance the knowledge about quantum computing of the scientific community in general and within the areas of Computer Science/ECE specifically.

We will utilize free cloud-based access to a gate-based platform to provide hands-on experience with programming actual quantum hardware. Curricular material will include the fundamentals in physics and mathematics required to understand quantum computing, introductory material to the quantum field, and the programming environment for a cloud-based platform. We will also develop training material suitable for tutorials at major conferences/symposia across different fields as well as online courses for faculty, staff and students.

• Automatically Translating Quantum Programs from a Subset of Common Gates to an Adiabatic Representation Malcolm Regan, Brody Eastwood, Mahita Nagabhiru, Frank Mueller in International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC), Springer LNCS 11497, eds. M. K. Thomsen and M. Soeken, Jun 2019, pages 146-161.
• Implementing NChooseK on IBM Q Quantum Computers Harsh Khetawat, Ashlesha Atrey, George Li, Frank Mueller, Scott Pakin in International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC), Springer LNCS 11497, eds. M. K. Thomsen and M. Soeken, Jun 2019, pages 209-223.
• Just-in-time Quantum Circuit Transpilation Reduces Noise by Ellis Wilson, Sudhakar Singh, Frank Mueller in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Oct 2020, Preprint arXiv:2005.12820
• Quantum Annealing Stencils with Applications to Fuel Loading of a Nuclear Reactor by Joseph Fustero, Scott Palmtag, Frank Mueller in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Oct 2021
• Mapping Constraint Problems onto Quantum Gate and Annealing Devices by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller, Scott Pakin in International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software, Nov 2021.
• "Empirical Evaluation of Circuit Approximations on Noisy Quantum Devices" by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller, Lindsay Bassman, Constin Iancu, in Supercomputing (SC), Nov 2021, pages, Preprint arXiv:2107.06701

• TBA

• Quantum Tutorial
• Quantum Computing Graduate Classes

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