| Week | Date | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 9 | Frank Mueller: Intro |
| Jan 11 | ||
| 2 | Jan 16 | Frank Mueller: D-Wave |
| Jan 18 | no class (snow day) | |
| 3 | Jan 23 | Frank Mueller: D-Wave |
| Jan 25 | Patrick Dreher: Quantum Devices and Physics | |
| 4 | Jan 30 | Scott Pakin (LANL): TBA |
| Feb 1 | Patrick Dreher: Quantum Devices and Physics | |
| 5 | Feb 6: Room 3211 EB2 | Joel Gottlieb (D-Wave via Hangouts) |
| Feb 8 | Onkar Patil: A Layered Software Architecture for Quantum Computing Design Tools | |
| 6 | Feb 13 | Greg Byrd: A Quantum Computer Logic Array Architecture |
| Feb 15 | Dan Stancil: IBM Q and the Josephson junction | |
| 7 | Feb 20: Room 3211 EB2 | John Martinis (UCSB/Google via Hangouts): Quantum Hardware and Recent Results |
| Feb 22 | Patrick Dreher: Quantum Devices and Physics | |
| 8 | Feb 27: Room 3211 EB2 | Travis Humble (ORNL via Hangouts): Systems and Software for Quantum Computing |
| Mar 1 | no class (canceled) | |
| 9 | Mar 6. | no class |
| Mar 8. | no class | |
| 10 | Mar 13 | Patrick Dreher: Quantum Devices and Physics |
| Mar 15 | ||
| 11 | Mar 20 | Joel Gottlieb (D-Wave in person): Introduction to the Physics of D-Wave and Comparison To Gate Model |
| Mar 22 | Lubos Mitas (NCSU Physics): Quantum Monte Carlo methods for high-accuracy electronic structure of real materials | |
| 12 | Mar 27. | no class (canceled) |
| Mar 29 | Thomas Schaefer (NCSU Physics): Quantum Computing for Quantum Many Body Physics | |
| 13 | Apr 3 | Frank Mueller: HW2 |
| Apr 5 | Hash Khetawat: ScaffCC: A Framework for Compilation and Analysis of Quantum Computing Programs | |
| 14 | Apr 10. | Behnam Kia: Quantum machine learning |
| Apr 12. | Abida Haque: Quantum Information Theory and Holevo's Bound | |
| 15 | Apr 17 | Utsab Ray: Solving the Optimal Trading Trajectory Problem Using a Quantum Annealer |
| Apr 19 | Ali Javadi (IBM): TBA | |
| 16 | Apr 24. | no class (canceled) |
| Apr 26. | no class (canceled) | |
| 17 | Apr 30: Monday: Lab tour at Duke | Atrium of the Duke Fitzpatrick building (walk from parking indicated by URL) at 12:55pm |
| May 1: Room 3300 EB2 | Quantum FFT | |
| May 3: Room 2216 EB2 | Shor's algorithm | |
| 18 | May 8: Room 3300 EB2 | Grover's algorithm and discussion on future collaborations |
| May 10: Room 3211 EB2 | Jungsang Kim (Duke/IonQ) |
*This schedule is tentative and subject to change.