Quantum Annealing Seminar at Stanford

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   jurvetson

   Feb 4, 2018 at 10:31 pm

   A little live demo of map coloring Canada 🇨🇦 using the QC up in Burnaby, by Edward Dahl, Senior Research Scientist, D-Wave Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz, Research Scientist, NASA Ames showing human-comparable recognition of written digits 1,2,3,4 And showing how multiple physical qubit couplers can overcome the connectivity bottleneck in these planar chips (vs our 3D brain with relatively massive synaptic fanout)Agenda
   9:30 Welcome – Don Listwin, Founder, Canary Foundation
   9:50 Introduction to Quantum Computing – Bo Ewald, President D-Wave International
   10:45 Quantum Computation – Edward Dahl, Senior Research Scientist, D-Wave
   11:30 Opportunities and Challenges in Quantum-enhanced Machine Learning – Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz, Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
   12:15 Catered lunch
   1:00 D-Wave Advanced Features – Richard Harris, Senior Scientist, D-Wave
   1:45 Quantum Computing: All Hype or Huge Advance? – Mark Novotny, Department Head Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University
   2:15 Quantum Annealing Experiences and Motivation at Los Alamos National Laboratory – John Sarrao, Associate Director for Theory, Simulation, and Computation (AD-TSC) at Los Alamos National Laboratory
   3:00 Q&A / Wrapup

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