We’re hosting an innovative quantum hackathon with problems from the quantum information startup BlueQubit just for the Stanford community!

Participants of the quantum hackathon will receive special quantum circuits (Peaked Circuits) where each circuit sets up a specific quantum state. Hidden within that state is a bit string. Your mission will be to find that bit string! Join us!

Interested in what shape quantum science takes in industry? Hoping to compete in our upcoming hackathon and want to know more about the science, problems, and company making it possible? RSVP for a talk from BlueQubit co-founder and CTO Hayk Tepanyan on October 24 at 4:30pm!

RSVP: bit.ly/sqcabluequbit25

Join us for the fourth Quantum Conversation of 2021! We will hear from Zeki Seskir, Ph.D. candidate in Physics at METU, Ankara whose research interests include quantum networks, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum education, quantum games, technology assessment, science and technology studies, and societal impact of quantum technologies. We will delve into a study of academic literature in quantum technologies, and discuss its implications on the quantum community and field progress. We hope to see you there!

26 May 2021 | 9:30AM- 11:30AM PT | Over Zoom

Join the Stanford Quantum Computing Leadership Team during this Virtual Social Event to meet other members of the Stanford Quantum community! Ask us any questions about Quantum Computing, Stanford, or our current application process!

09 May 2021 | 4PM- 5PM PT | Over Zoom

This week for our quantum computing reading group, we have Nazli presenting a paper on quantum genetic programming. The link can be found here!

Food credit of up to $20 is provided to all those who attend!

Friday Feb 19th | 5:00 - 6:00 pm PST | Zoom

This week for our quantum computing reading group, we have Noah presenting a paper on quantum singular value decomposition. The link can be found here!

Food credit of up to $20 is provided to all those who attend!

Friday Feb 12th | 5:00 - 6:00 pm PST | Zoom

Join us for the first event in our new joint Stanford-Yale Faculty Speaker Series.

Professor Steven Girvin is a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale, and the Director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The first quantum revolution brought us the great technological advances of the 20th century—the transistor, the laser, the atomic clock and GPS, the global positioning system. A ‘second quantum revolution’ is now underway based on our relatively new understanding of how information can be stored, manipulated and communicated using strange quantum hardware that is neither fully digital nor fully analog. We now realize that 20th century hardware does not take advantage of the full power of quantum machines. This talk will give a gentle introduction to the basic concepts that underlie this quantum information revolution and describe recent remarkable experimental progress in the race to build quantum machines for computing, sensing and communication.

Register to receive the Zoom information. https://forms.gle/RvE4ThAQ2zc55TdL9

This week for our quantum computing reading group, we have Gordon presenting a paper on quantum computing applied to computer networks and communications. The link can be found here!

Food credit of up to $20 is provided to all those who attend!

Friday Feb 5th | 5:00 - 6:00 pm PST | Zoom

This week for our quantum computing reading group, we have Zhiyong presenting her own paper on a quantum algorithm that finds solutions for the lowest eigenstates of a hamiltonian. The link can be found here!

Food credit of up to $20 is provided to all those who attend!

Friday Jan 29th | 5:00 - 6:00 pm PST | Zoom

Join us this Wednesday, January 27th as we hear from Brett Koonce and a Stanford faculty member at the monthly Quantum Conversations event! Brett is the CTO of Quarkworks, a mobile consulting agency, and he will be discussing general quantum computing and running personal simulations on hardware and the Amazon Bracket computing service. Next we will hear from from Mark Kasevich, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, whose research centers of quantum sensing and advanced microscopy techniques.

Wednesday Jan 27 | 4:00PM PT - 5:30 PM PT | Zoom

This quarter, we are continuing with our weekly meeting of the quantum computing reading group where a student presents on a paper related to quantum computing and then participants discuss it as a group afterwards. For our first meeting Akshay will be presenting on Quantum Computing in Finance whose link can be found here.

Food credit of up to $20 is provided to all those who attend!

Friday Jan 22nd | 5:00 - 6:00 pm PST | Zoom

Join the Association and Berkeley Quantum as we host Bill Huggins, a quantum engineer at Google Quantum AI! Huggins will talk about Google’s Quantum AI post supremacy quantum computing work.

Tuesday Nov 10 | Time TBD | Over Zoom

Our fourth meeting of the quantum computing reading group will be this Thursday from 4-5pm PDT.  This week we will have a presentation by a student on a paper related to quantum computing and then we will all discuss it as a group afterwards. This week Ben will be presenting on the experimental progress of Majorana fermions whose link can be found here!

.Food credit is provided to those who attend!

Thursday Oct 29 | 4:00PM PT - 5:00PM PT | Over Zoom | Zoom link

Register below to stay up to date about future journal club meetings and join the slack channel for our reading group to stay updated!

Join us for our first Quantum Chess Tournament! We will provide a tutorial on how to play a quantum rendition of classical chess for an intercollegiate competition including students from both Stanford and Berkeley. This will be a great opportunity to socialize while socially distanced and enjoy a recreational method to understand more about quantum mechanics. Also, there is a grand prize so be sure to sign up! 

The tournament will take place over a series of days depending on competitors time zones! A tutorial event will start off the competition Thursday October 29th

Kickoff Event | Thursday Oct 29 | 2PM - 2:30P | Zoom Link

Register below to be entered in the competition, receive logistics information for the initial demonstration event and more information!

Join Quantum Conversations and the Stanford Quantum Computing Association as we cohost Alba Cervera providing a talk on Designing Variational Quantum Algorithms with Tequila! Alba Cervera is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Alán Aspuru-Guzik group at the University of Toronto working on variational quantum algorithms and computational tools for quantum simulation.

Learn more about the event and Quantum Conversations at their website!

Wednesday Oct 28 | 9:10AM PT - 11:00AM PT | Over Zoom

Register below to receive updates with the Zoom link and password!

Our second meeting of the quantum computing reading group will be this Thursday from 4-5pm PDT. This week we will have a presentation by a student on a paper related to quantum computing and then we will all discuss it as a group afterwards. This week Matthew will be presenting on the 1-D topological Majorana quit whose link can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1293 You can sign up for the group by filling out this short google form!

.Food credit is provided to those who attend!

Thursday Oct 22 | 4:00PM PT - 5:00PM PT | Over Zoom | Zoom link

Register below to stay up to date about future journal club meetings and join the slack channel for our reading group to stay updated!

Join the Association as we host Mickey McDonald, a quantum engineer at Atom Computing. McDonald is an experimental physicists who received his PhD on ultracold molecules at Columbia!

Friday Oct 9 | 3:00PM PT - 4:00PM PT | Over Zoom

Zoom Link:  https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97403251299?pwd=akNaUEZQTCtkMG1xRnRoR1MrSUFzdz09

Register below to receive updates and reminders with the Zoom link and password!

This week is the inaugural meeting of the quantum computing reading group. Each Thursday from 4-5pm PDT week we will have a presentation by a student on a paper related to quantum computing and then we will all discuss it as a group afterwards. Food credit is provided to those who attend! This week Gordon will be presenting on a review paper on Quantum Algorithms whose link can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/npjqi201523.pdf

Thursday Oct 08 | 4:00PM PT - 5:00PM PT | Over Zoom | Zoom link

Register below to stay up to date about future journal club meetings and join the slack channel for our reading group to stay updated!

Join us at our Welcome Event for Stanford’s first Quantum Computing Bootcamp with IBM! We plan

to describe the program, schedule, assignments, officer hours and answer any of your questions!

Join the zoom link below to attend the meeting!

Bootcamp Information
This 6-week bootcamp is a hands-on introduction to modern quantum programming for students who want to work with quantum computing technologies and learn about new paradigms of computation. The bootcamp will cover the model of quantum computation, IBM Qiskit programming language, understanding and programming Shor's algorithm, and further applications of quantum computing.

A physics / quantum mechanics background is not required! There is no required time commitment! 

Schedule starting October 6th:
Tuesday/Thursday: Lecture videos posted 9am PT with quantum programming python notebooks
TBD: Weekly office hours with IBM engineers 

Join the Association as we host Iordanis Kerenidis, the Head of Quantum Algorithms International from QCWare! Iordanis received his PhD in Computer Science at UC, Berkeley and currently works with QC Ware to design quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization with provable speedups.

Thursday Oct 1 | 11:00AM PT - 12:00PM PT | Over Zoom

Zoom Link:  
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94615317967?pwd=TWFLeE1hRDkwNE9ZN29jKzQvMVZwQT09

Register below to receive updates and reminders with the Zoom link and password!