JUNIQ/EPIQ Summer School on Quantum Computing 2025

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre will host the summer school on “Quantum Computing – Applications across Digital and Analog Architectures” from September 01 to 05, 2025. The school is jointly organized by the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ) and the NRW-funded project Entwicklungspartnerschaft Ionenfallen-Quantencomputer (EPIQ), a collaboration between Forschungszentrum Jülich and the quantum start-up eleQtron from Siegen. The school focuses on hands-on experiences in developing and implementing algorithms on both gate-based devices and quantum annealers. Therefore the attendees will make use of JUNIQ's cloud-programming platform to access quantum devices located at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The hands-on sessions will be accompanied by several lectures covering basic concepts of gate-based and annealing systems, the design and implementation of use-cases, and big-picture lectures, all given by experts from the field. The summer school will be complemented by a poster session in which the attendees can introduce themselves and their interest in quantum computing and potentially present their own research results. Our school is free of charge and will be on-site only this year.

Topics

Introduction to Gate-Based Quantum Computing, Introduction to Quantum Annealing, Introduction to Quantum Simulation, Formulating QUBO Problems and Ising Hamiltonians, Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm, Classical vs Quantum Optimization, Error Correction, Error Mitigation, Entangling Gate Mechanism, Cooling Quantum Systems, Introduction to Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions.

Registration

• The school is taylored to PhD students from the field of quantum computing in their first years. This, however, is not a requirement for participation.
• To register for on-site participation applications must be submitted. To submit your application and to get further information, please see our registration page.

Costs & Services

The participation is free and includes:

• One week of interesting talks given by experts from the field;
• Hands-on sessions in small groups supervised by experts;
• Lunch and coffee/tee on all days;
• Dinner on the first and the last evening;
• A tour in the Aachen/Jülich region;
• Ticket for public transportion between Aachen and Jülich for the full week;