Tentative Course Schedule*

Week Date Topics
1 Aug 22 Frank Mueller: Intro
2 Aug 27
Aug 29 Frank Mueller: D-Wave
3 Sep 3 Frank Mueller: D-Wave, Patrick Dreher: Math Foundations
Sep 5 Patrick Dreher: Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
4 Sep 10 Patrick Dreher: Postulates of Quantum Mechanics (cont.)
Sep 12 Greg Byrd: Introduction to the Gate Model/IBM Q
5 Sep 17 Greg Byrd: Quantum Circuits and Algorithms/IBM Q
Sep 19 Greg Byrd: The IBM Q Experience
6 Sep 24,
Sep 26, Greg Byrd: Quantum Algorithms, Frank Mueller: Project 1
7 Oct 1. Greg Byrd: Quantum Algorithms, Greg Byrd: Project 2
Oct 3. Greg Byrd: Quantum Algorithms and Exam Review, Patrick Dreher: Project 3
8 Oct 8 First Exam
Oct 10 no class
9 Oct 15 Dan Stancil: IBM Q and the Josephson junction
Oct 17 Patrick Dreher: Noisy Quantum Computing
10 Oct 22 Frank Mueller: Systems Level Mitigation of Noise
Oct 24. Greg Byrd: QAOA, VQE, hybrid computing
11 Oct 29. Patrick Dreher: Trapped Ion Quantum Computer
Oct 31 Frank Mueller: Quantum Compilers
12 Nov 5_ Frank Mueller: more Noise Mitigation
Nov 7_ Frank Mueller: TBD
13 Nov 12 Greg Byrd: Quantum Error Correction
Nov 14
14 Nov 19._ Patrick Dreher: QFT and Shor
Nov 21._
15 Nov 26 project presentations
Nov 28 no class
16 Dec 3. project presentations, exam review
Dec 5. Second Exam

*This schedule is tentative and subject to change.