Retrospective on JUNIQ's Summer School on Quantum Information Processing

From 28 August to 1 September 2023, JUNIQ hosted the Summer School on Quantum Information Processing combining expert lectures with hands-on sessions. Twenty-four participants from academia and industry across Europe came to the Jülich Supercomputing Centre to study applications of quantum computing. Additionally, about 30 participants followed the lectures online.

The students got introductory lectures on gate-based quantum computing and quantum annealing, followed by theoretical concepts of state-of-the-art algorithms that they had to use to solve their research problems during the hands-on part. Invited speakers including Viv Kendon from Glasgow and David DiVincenzo from Jülich, complemented the school with meta-perspectives on the evolution of quantum computing (QC) and gave an outlook on future challenges and research activities.

During the hands-on sessions, the students had to solve simplified research questions directly applying the lessons learned in the lectures. For this, they used JUNIQ’s cloud-programming environment, from which they could access several QC resources using a unified programming interface. During the sessions, the students were supervised by several experts from JSC’s research group Quantum Information Processing. In addition to the hands-on sessions, talks, and lectures, the students presented their own research to their peer group and experts in dedicated poster sessions. This encouraged the participants to create new research ideas, initiate future collaborations, and establish new networks.

We thank all attendees for their active participation and are looking forward to hosting another group of students at next year’s summer school.

Contact: Dr. Nils Küchler, info-juniq@fz-juelich.de

from JSC News No. 298, 15 September 2023