BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230510T155517Z UID:A6F81A1B-E54E-469F-90AF-5ECA2D08AA26 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20230307T180000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20230307T200000 DESCRIPTION:Web-based Course with live Instructor!\n\nTimes & Dates: 6 – 8PM ET\, March 7\, 9\, 14\, 16\, 21\, 23\, 28\, 30\n\nCourse Format: Live lectures interspersed with lab exercises in Visual Studio\n\nThis course i s organized by the MITRE Corporation and being offered as part of the IEEE Boston Section’s professional development program.\n\nSummary:\n\nIn re cent years\, there has been an enormous surge of interest in quantum compu ting. Government\, academic\, and commercial organizations have spent bill ions of dollars attempting to create reliable\, general-purpose quantum co mputers. These systems leverage the unusual properties of quantum mechanic s to perform computations that could never be performed on conventional co mputers in our lifetime. Such calculations have a wide range of applicatio ns\, including:\n\n• Breaking certain cryptographic algorithms\n• Engi neering new materials\n• Simulating how systems behave in extreme enviro nments\n• Finding new medicines that target specific diseases\n• Build ing secure transmission channels that cannot be eavesdropped\n\nHow do qua ntum computers accomplish these bold claims? How could we use this technol ogy to tackle our most difficult challenges? And how do programmers like y ou access it? In this course\, we will explore the answers to these questi ons and help you unlock the ability to write quantum software and simulate quantum algorithms. Students should bring some basic programming experien ce and an open mind as we delve into a new computing paradigm.\n\nTarget A udience: Practicing software engineers. Objective: Develop the practicable skills needed to implement and study quantum algorithms in software.\n\nP rerequisites:\n\nStudents are assumed to have exposure to the following co ncepts:• Complex numbers\n• Vectors & Matrices\n• Bra-ket and tensor notation\n• Digital information\n• Endianness\n• Digital logic\n• Low- and high-level programming\n• Visual Studio\n\nLearning materials covering the course prerequisites will be provided in advance. This way\, students can fill in any gaps in their knowledge and everyone starts on th e same page on day 1.\n\nOutline:\n\nThe course consists of live lectures interspersed with lab exercises in Visual Studio. All the materials are av ailable in the form of an online course guide\, so students can learn at t heir own pace both during and outside of class time. To mitigate technical difficulties\, each student is provided remote access to a virtual machin e with a preconfigured environment. The following topics are covered:\n\n • Qubits and quantum gates\n• Multi-qubit systems\n• Quantum circuit s\n• Quantum protocols\n• Quantum algorithms\n• Q# programming\n\nTh e Visual Studio exercises are Q# operations that must be implemented corre ctly for a unit test to pass. This approach allows students to get immedia te feedback on how well they understand a concept. We use the Discord plat form as a course forum\, where students can ask questions at any time and collaborate on solving the coding challenges.\n\n©2021 The MITRE Corporat ion. All Rights Reserved.\nApproved for Public Release\; Distribution Unli mited.\nPublic Release Case Number 21-3742.\n\nDecision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is: Wednesday\, March 1\, 2023\n\nCo-sponsored by: MITRE C orporation \n\nSpeaker(s): Richard Preston\, \n\nBoston\, Massachusetts\, United States\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/339953 LOCATION:Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States\, Virtual: https://events.v tools.ieee.org/m/339953 ORGANIZER:k.safina@ieee.org SEQUENCE:10 SUMMARY:Introduction to Quantum Software Development Course URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/339953 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\, March 7\, 9\, 14\, 16\, 21\, 23\, 28\, 30</p>\n<p>Course Format: Live lect ures interspersed with lab exercises in Visual Studio</p>\n<div class="gma il_default">\n<p>This course is organized by the MITRE Corporation and bei ng offered as part of the IEEE Boston Section&rsquo\;s professional develo pment program.</p>\n</div>\n<p>Summary:</p>\n<p>In recent years\, there ha s been an enormous surge of interest in quantum computing. Government\, ac ademic\, and commercial organizations have spent billions of dollars attem pting to create reliable\, general-purpose quantum computers. These system s leverage the unusual properties of quantum mechanics to perform computat ions that could never be performed on conventional computers in our lifeti me. Such calculations have a wide range of applications\, including:</p>\n </div>\n<div class="gmail_default">&bull\; Breaking certain cryptographic algorithms<br />&bull\; Engineering new materials<br />&bull\; Simulating how systems behave in extreme environments<br />&bull\; Finding new medici nes that target specific diseases<br />&bull\; Building secure transmissio n channels that cannot be eavesdropped</div>\n<div class="gmail_default">\ n<p>How do quantum computers accomplish these bold claims? How could we us e this technology to tackle our most difficult challenges? And how do prog rammers like you access it? In this course\, we will explore the answers t o these questions and help you unlock the ability to write quantum softwar e and simulate quantum algorithms. Students should bring some basic progra mming experience and an open mind as we delve into a new computing paradig m.</p>\n</div>\n<div class="gmail_default">\n<p>Target Audience:&nbsp\; Pr acticing software engineers.&nbsp\; Objective:&nbsp\; Develop the practica ble skills needed to implement and study quantum algorithms in software.</ p>\n<p>Prerequisites:</p>\n<p>Students are assumed to have exposure to the following concepts:&bull\; Complex numbers<br />&bull\; Vectors &amp\; Ma trices<br />&bull\; Bra-ket and tensor notation<br />&bull\; Digital infor mation<br />&bull\; Endianness<br />&bull\; Digital logic<br />&bull\; Low - and high-level programming<br />&bull\; Visual Studio</p>\n<p>Learning 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.</p>\n<p>Outline:</p>\n</div>\n<div class="g mail_default">The course consists of live lectures interspersed with lab e xercises in Visual Studio. All the materials are available in the form of an online course guide\, so students can learn at their own pace both duri ng and outside of class time. To mitigate technical difficulties\, each st udent is provided remote access to a virtual machine with a preconfigured environment. The following topics are covered:</div>\n<div>&nbsp\;</div>\n <div class="gmail_default">&bull\; Qubits and quantum gates<br />&bull\; M ulti-qubit systems<br />&bull\; Quantum circuits<br />&bull\; Quantum prot ocols<br />&bull\; Quantum algorithms<br />&bull\; Q# programming</div>\n< div class="gmail_default">&nbsp\;</div>\n<div class="gmail_default">The Vi sual Studio exercises are Q# operations that must be implemented correctly for a unit test to pass. This approach allows students to get immediate f eedback 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 coll aborate on solving the coding challenges.</div>\n<div class="gmail_default ">\n<p>&copy\;2021 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.<br />Approv ed for Public Release\; Distribution Unlimited.<br />Public Release Case N umber 21-3742.</p>\n</div>\n<div class="gmail_default">Decision (Run/Cance l) Date for this Course is:&nbsp\; Wednesday\, March 1\, 2023&nbsp\;</div> \n<div class="gmail_default">\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n</div> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR