BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20220224T155252Z UID:8F4177AA-F8C9-466A-9550-353B1D9CC489 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20220208T180000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20220213T000000 DESCRIPTION:Web-based Course with live Instructor!\n\nTimes & Dates: 6 – 8PM ET\, February 8\, 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 22\, 23\, 24\n\nCourse Forma t: Live lectures interspersed with lab exercises in Visual Studio\n\nThis course is organized by the MITRE Corporation and being offered as part of the IEEE Boston Section’s professional development program.\n\nSummary:\ n\nIn recent years\, there has been an enormous surge of interest in quant um computing. Government\, academic\, and commercial organizations have sp ent billions of dollars attempting to create reliable\, general-purpose qu antum computers. These systems leverage the unusual properties of quantum mechanics to perform computations that could never be performed on convent ional computers in our lifetime. Such calculations have a wide range of ap plications\, including:\n\n• Breaking certain cryptographic algorithms\n • Engineering new materials\n• Simulating how systems behave in extrem e environments\n• Finding new medicines that target specific diseases\n • Building secure transmission channels that cannot be eavesdropped\n\nH ow do quantum computers accomplish these bold claims? How could we use thi s technology to tackle our most difficult challenges? And how do programme rs like you access it? In this course\, we will explore the answers to the se questions and help you unlock the ability to write quantum software and simulate quantum algorithms. Students should bring some basic programming experience and an open mind as we delve into a new computing paradigm.\n\ nTarget Audience: Practicing software engineers. Objective: Develop the pr acticable skills needed to implement and study quantum algorithms in softw are.\n\nPrerequisites:\n\nStudents are assumed to have exposure to the fol lowing concepts:• Complex numbers\n• Vectors & Matrices\n• Bra-ket a nd tensor notation\n• Digital information\n• Endianness\n• Digital l ogic\n• Low- and high-level programming\n• Visual Studio\n\nLearning m aterials covering the course prerequisites will be provided in advance. Th is way\, students can fill in any gaps in their knowledge and everyone sta rts on the same page on day 1.\n\nOutline:\n\nThe course consists of live lectures interspersed with lab exercises in Visual Studio. All the materia ls are available in the form of an online course guide\, so students can l earn at their own pace both during and outside of class time. To mitigate technical difficulties\, each student is provided remote access to a virtu al machine with a preconfigured environment. The following topics are cove red:\n\n• Qubits and quantum gates\n• Multi-qubit systems\n• Quantum circuits\n• Quantum protocols\n• Quantum algorithms\n• Q# programmi ng\n\nThe Visual Studio exercises are Q# operations that must be implement ed correctly for a unit test to pass. This approach allows students to get immediate feedback on how well they understand a concept. We use the Disc ord platform as a course forum\, where students can ask questions at any t ime and collaborate on solving the coding challenges.\n\n©2021 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.\nApproved for Public Release\; Distribut ion Unlimited.\nPublic Release Case Number 21-3742.\n\nDecision (Run/Cance l) Date for this Course is: Thursday\, February 3\, 2022\n\nCo-sponsored b y: MITRE Corporation \n\nSpeaker(s): Joe Clapis\, Richard Preston\n\nBosto n\, Massachusetts\, United States\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.or g/m/292972 LOCATION:Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States\, Virtual: https://events.v tools.ieee.org/m/292972 ORGANIZER:k.safina@ieee.org SEQUENCE:10 SUMMARY:Introduction to Quantum Software Development Course URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/292972 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><div class="gmail_default">\n<p>Web-based Cou rse with live Instructor!</p>\n<p>Times &amp\; Dates: 6 &ndash\; 8PM ET\, February 8\, 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 22\, 23\, 24</p>\n<p>Course Format: L ive lectures interspersed with lab exercises in Visual Studio</p>\n<div cl ass="gmail_default">\n<p>This course is organized by the MITRE Corporation and being offered as part of the IEEE Boston Section&rsquo\;s professiona l development program.</p>\n</div>\n<p>Summary:</p>\n<p>In recent years\, there has been an enormous surge of interest in quantum computing. Governm ent\, academic\, and commercial organizations have spent billions of dolla rs attempting to create reliable\, general-purpose quantum computers. Thes e systems leverage the unusual properties of quantum mechanics to perform computations that could never be performed on conventional computers in ou r lifetime. Such calculations have a wide range of applications\, includin g:</p>\n</div>\n<div class="gmail_default">&bull\; Breaking certain crypto graphic algorithms<br />&bull\; Engineering new materials<br />&bull\; Sim ulating how systems behave in extreme environments<br />&bull\; Finding ne w medicines that target specific diseases<br />&bull\; Building secure tra nsmission channels that cannot be eavesdropped</div>\n<div class="gmail_de fault">\n<p>How do quantum computers accomplish these bold claims? How cou ld we use this technology to tackle our most difficult challenges? And how do programmers like you access it? In this course\, we will explore the a nswers to these questions and help you unlock the ability to write quantum software and simulate quantum algorithms. Students should bring some basi c programming experience and an open mind as we delve into a new computing paradigm.</p>\n</div>\n<div class="gmail_default">\n<p>Target Audience:&n bsp\; Practicing software engineers.&nbsp\; Objective:&nbsp\; Develop the practicable skills needed to implement and study quantum algorithms in sof tware.</p>\n<p>Prerequisites:</p>\n<p>Students are assumed to have exposur e to the following concepts:&bull\; Complex numbers<br />&bull\; Vectors & amp\; Matrices<br />&bull\; Bra-ket and tensor notation<br />&bull\; Digit al information<br />&bull\; Endianness<br />&bull\; Digital logic<br />&bu ll\; Low- and high-level programming<br />&bull\; Visual Studio</p>\n<p>Le arning materials covering the course prerequisites will be provided in adv ance. This way\, students can fill in any gaps in their knowledge and ever yone starts on the same page on day 1.</p>\n<p>Outline:</p>\n</div>\n<div class="gmail_default">The course consists of live lectures interspersed wi th lab exercises in Visual Studio. All the materials are available in the form of an online course guide\, so students can learn at their own pace b oth during and outside of class time. To mitigate technical difficulties\, each student is provided remote access to a virtual machine with a precon figured environment. The following topics are covered:</div>\n<div>&nbsp\; </div>\n<div class="gmail_default">&bull\; Qubits and quantum gates<br />& bull\; Multi-qubit systems<br />&bull\; Quantum circuits<br />&bull\; Quan tum protocols<br />&bull\; Quantum algorithms<br />&bull\; Q# programming< /div>\n<div class="gmail_default">&nbsp\;</div>\n<div class="gmail_default ">The Visual Studio exercises are Q# operations that must be implemented c orrectly for a unit test to pass. This approach allows students to get imm ediate feedback on how well they understand a concept. We use the Discord platform as a course forum\, where students can ask questions at any time and collaborate on solving the coding challenges.</div>\n<div class="gmail _default">\n<p>&copy\;2021 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.<br />Approved for Public Release\; Distribution Unlimited.<br />Public Releas e Case Number 21-3742.</p>\n</div>\n<div class="gmail_default">Decision (R un/Cancel) Date for this Course is:&nbsp\; Thursday\, February 3\, 2022</d iv>\n<div class="gmail_default">\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n</div> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR