Please see below for the next talk in the fall seminar series organized by the Institute for AI & Computational Research on AI/ML techniques and applications across various scientific domains. You can find a table of upcoming talks here: https://web.uri.edu/iacr/seminars/.

Speaker: Wenchao Ge (URI)

Date/Time/Location: Oct 30, 3pm, Memorial Union room 308.

Title: Introduction to Quantum Computing and Variational Quantum Algorithms

Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce the basics of quantum computing and discuss a leading strategy to use quantum computers--variational quantum algorithms. In the first half, I will explain what quantum computing is, why it is interesting, and the state-of-the-art in quantum computing.  In the second half, I will talk about the components and the properties of variational quantum algorithms, which use a classical optimizer to train a parametrized quantum circuit. As an example, I will discuss the idea of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm and its applications to solve combinatorial problems, such as the Max-Cut problem.