Welcome to the Summer 2020 course webpage!
Course Info
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Lectures: 9:00 - 10:45 Monday, 13:00-14:00 Wednesday
Tutorial: 9:00 - 11:00 Friday. (Beginning Week 3.) Link to BigBlueButton to join for livestreaming. (See PANDA for authorization code.)
Classroom: F1.110
Textbook: Nielsen and Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information -
Final exam:
(First sitting): 9:00 am Wed Jul 22, 2020 - 23:59 Sat Jul 25, 2020. Details in PANDA.
(Second sitting): 9:00 am Wed Sep 23, 2020 - 23:59 Sat Sep 26, 2020. Details in PANDA. -
Instructor: Jun. Prof. Dr. Sevag Gharibian
Email: sevag.gharibian@uni-paderborn.de
Twitter: @sevag_gharibian
Webpage: http://groups.uni-paderborn.de/fg-qi/index.html
Office: F2.313
Office Hours: 14:00 - 15:00 Wednesday
Announcements
- September 14, 2020Final Exam 2 date and time have now been finalized, from Wed Sep 23 9:00 am to Sat Sep 26 at 23:59 (see above for details).
- July 16, 2020Tutorial tomorrow will run from approximately 9:30 to 11:00 instead of 9:15 to 10:45.
- July 14, 20204 announcements: (1) Final exam dates have changed again, these should now be final (see above). (2) The final lecture's notes are up (see Syllabus & Reading), Lecture 12, and it is an independent reading lecture. As such, there is no accompanying video this week. Congrats, you made it to the end of the term! (3) All lecture notes are now also available as a single joint document (see Syllabys & Reading). (4) This Friday we will use the tutorial to do a final exam review.
- July 9, 2020Video of the Lecture 11 is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as a minor update to Assignment 8. The final exam date has been set (see above).
- July 1, 2020Video of the Lecture 10 is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as Assignment 8 (see Assignments) and A7 solutions (see PANDA).
- June 25, 2020As we are ahead one week in lectures (Monday June 1, 2020 also had a lecture, although it was a holiday), there will be no lecture released this week. Lecture 10 on the quantum Factoring algorithm will be released early next week as usual.
- June 16, 2020Video of the Lecture 9 is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as Assignment 7 (see Assignments) and A6 solutions (see PANDA).
- June 11, 2020To give everyone a chance to continue watching TQC2020 online, we will cancel tomorrow's tutorial (which overlaps with the conference). Note that no registration is required to view the talks online, simply click here.
- June 9, 2020Video of the Lecture 8 is up (see Syllabus & Reading).
- June 4, 2020The last question of A6 has been updated to include the definition of the spectral norm of a matrix.
- June 2, 2020Video of the Lecture 7 is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as A5 solutions (see PANDA). A6's deadline has been postponed to June 12, but in exchange the challenge question is no longer optional, i.e. it is required to obtain full credit.
- May 25, 2020Video of the Lecture 6 is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as Assignment 6 (see Assignments) and A4 solutions (see PANDA).
- May 18, 2020Video of the Lecture 5 is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as Assignment 5 (see Assignments) and A3 solutions (see PANDA).
- May 11, 2020Video of the Lecture 4 is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as Assignment 4 (see Assignments) and A2 solutions (see PANDA).
- May 5, 2020We will experiment with BigBlueButton for a livestreamed tutorial this Friday, starting at 9:15. See PANDA for authorization code.
- May 4, 2020Video of the Lecture 3 is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as Assignment 3 (see Assignments) and A1 solutions (see PANDA).
- April 27, 2020Video of the second week's lecture is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as Assignment 2 (see Assignments).
- April 22, 2020Video of the first week's lecture is up (see Syllabus & Reading), as well as Assignment 1 (see Assignments).
- January 6, 2020Welcome to Introduction to Quantum Computation! At the top of this page, you'll find links to pages for announcements, the course syllabus and suggested reading for each class, and the UPB Quantum Computing Lab.