Tentative Course Schedule*

Week Date Topics
1 Aug 23. Intro
Aug 25.
2 Aug 30 D-Wave
Sep 2
3 Sep 6 Math Foundations
Sep 8 Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
4 Sep 13
Sep 15. Introduction to the Gate Model/IBM Q
5 Sep 20 Quantum Circuits and Algorithms/IBM Q
Sep 22 The IBM Q Experience
6 Sep 27
Sep 29 Grover's algorithm
7 Oct 4 Grover's algorithm (cont.) and Project Selection
Oct 6 First Exam
8 Oct 11 no class
Oct 13 QFT
9 Oct 18 Shor's Algorithm
Oct 20 VQE
10 Oct 25 QAOA
Oct 27 Quantum Device Technologies
11 Nov 1 Noisy Quantum Computing
Nov 3 no class
12 Nov 8 Systems Level Mitigation of Noise
Nov 10 Quantum Compilers
13 Nov 15. Quantum Error Correction
Nov 17.
14 Nov 22 project presentations
Nov 24 no class
15 Nov 29 project presentations (cont.)
Dec 1 Second Exam

*This schedule is tentative and subject to change.