Summer-and Winter-Schools

QUIP Summer- and Winter-Schools

For further education in the field of quantum technologies, we offer our QUIP summer and winter schools to all interested students. The schools teach scientific as well as technical and social skills according to a structured curriculum. The teaching units are held by members of the initiative as well as by external experts and are aimed in particular at doctoral students in the first phase of their doctorate.

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Winter School Quikstart 2024

The Quantum Initiative Rhineland-Palatinate (QUIP) hosted the QUIP International Winter School on Quantum Machine Learning 2024 “Quickstart 2024” last week. Students and young researchers from all over the world as well as industry came together to discuss the latest developments, challenges and applications in this field.

The detailed press release of the Fraunhofer ITWM can be found here.

Winter School 2024

Period of time: 19.02-23.02.2024 
Duration: 1 Week 
Subject: Quantum Machine Learning 
Preequisites: In order to cater for the different levels of prior knowledge of the participants, we offer optional modules on introduction to quantum computing (Basics QC) and introduction to classical deep learning (Basics DL) on the first two days. These do not have to be attended by all participants.

Description: The QUIP Winter School brings together students, young researchers and industry to discuss the latest developments, challenges and applications in the field of quantum machine learning. The programme offers exciting courses and varied talks by speakers from different application areas of quantum machine learning. Experts from our institute will also give talks on their research in the field.

Agenda:

Time	Monday 19.02	Tuesday 20.02	Wednesday 21.02	Thursday 22.02	Friday 23.02
08.30 – 10.00	Basics QC	Basics QC	Introduction to QML Antonio Macaluso	Quantum Natural Language Models  Bob Coecke	QML in industry Iraitz Montalban
10.00 – 10.30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10.30 – 12.00	Basics QC	Basics QC	Introduction to QML Antonio Macaluso	Quantum Natural Language Models  Bob Coecke	QML in industry Iraitz Montalban
12.00 – 13.30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13.30 – 15.00	Basics DL	Basics DL	Computational Complexity Nico Piatkowski	Classical Deep Learning for QC Shai Machnes	QML industry Caitlin Jones
15.00 – 15.30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.00	Basics DL	Basics DL	Helmstrom measurement Carsten Blanck	Hiking Humberg Tower or Lab Tours	Amazon Cloud Service Sebastian Stern
17.00 –	Evening activity 19.00: Pub Crawl	Evening activity 18.00: Bouldering or Bowling	Poster Session 17.00 – Open End Food Buffet Andreas Spörl	17.30 Walk to Bremerhof and  Conference Dinner	Goodbye from organizing committee

Location:
RPTU Kaiserslautern
Erwin-Schrödinger Straße 57
67663 Kaiserslautern
Room Rotunde and Building 57-215
https://rptu.de/anfahrtswege-und-anreise

Registration:
https://tuk-anmeldungen.procampus.de/de/registration-quikstart

Registration for the Basic QC and Basic DL courses is closed.
Registration for the lectures on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday is open until 31 January.
For online-only participation, registration is open until 15 February.

Language: English

Contact: Dr. Xiaoyin Cheng, xiaoyin.cheng@itwm.fraunhofer.de