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QuSTEAM: Workshop on Quantum Computing

QuSTEAM hosted a hybrid Workshop of Quantum Computing at the 2022 ACS Meeting.

Find the full program below: 

8:55 – 9:00 AM– Welcome by Russell R. Ceballos

9:00 – 9:20 AM– 1st virtual session begins:

9:00 – 9:20 AM– Pranav Gokhale, VP of Quantum Software at ColdQuanta

  • Talk title: Accelerating Quantum Applications in Chemistry through Software Optimizations 

9:20 – 9:40 AM– Pietro Veronesi, Deputy Dean for Faculty and Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

  • Talk title: Societal Impacts: Jobs and Inequality                                 

9:40 – 10:00 AM– Break

In-person session begins:

 10:00 AM– Introduction to in-person session by Russell R. Ceballos

  10:00 – 10:15 AM–

  • Bennett Brown, Executive Director, QuSTEAM

  • Araceli Venegas-Gomez, Founder & Director, QURECA: Quantum Resources & Careers

  • Maninder Kaur, Program Manager, QURECA: Quantum Resources & Careers

  • Kevin Callaghan, Founder & CEO Quantescence: Financial Innovation

10:15 – 11:00 AM– Russell R. Ceballos, Director of Programs, QuSTEAM; Curriculum and Education Partnership Liaison, Chicago Quantum Exchange

  • Talk title: Foundations and Basic Concepts in Quantum Computing

11:00 – 11:45 AM– Ricky Young, Quantum Software Engineer, qBraid

  •  Talk title: Tutorial on Quantum Computing

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM– Break

12:00 – 1:00 PM– Hybrid Panel 1: Applications of quantum computing for chemistry

  •  Moderator: Russell R. Ceballos 

1:00 – 1:30 PM– Lunch Break 

1:30 – 2:00 PM– Hybrid open Q&A

2:00 – 2:45 PM– Hybrid Panel 2:    Careers in QISE

  •  Moderator: Russell R. Ceballos

2:45 – 3:00 PM– Break

2nd virtual session begins:

3:00 PM– Introduction to technical talks by Russell R. Ceballos

 3:00 – 3:45 PM– Mark Byrd, Professor, Department of Physics at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale

  • Talk title: Introduction to Quantum Computing

3:45 – 4:05 PM– Yuri Alexeev, Principal Project Specialist at Argonne National Laboratory

  • Talk title: Ab initio molecular dynamics on quantum computers

4:05 – 4:15 PM– Mathew Otten, a Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, HRL Laboratories 

  • Talk title: Unitary selected coupled cluster method

END OF WORKSHOP

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