Please join us on 8/6 @ 2pm ET for a talk by Swarnadeep Majumder on variational algorithms. Swarnadeep is a PhD candidate and highly regarded researcher at Duke University. His work is focused on quantum controls, verification, benchmarking and error mitigation.
Abstract:A fully functional fault-tolerant quantum computer has the potential to efficiently solve a broad class of problems that are computationally intractable, even for the most powerful supercomputer. But building such a quantum computer is a difficult task, and we cannot run most of the quantum algorithms reliably with the noisy hardware of today. Variational quantum algorithms have been proposed in recent years that can be implemented in noisy quantum processors, and they are the leading contender for demonstrating quantum advantage with near-term hardware. In this talk, I will discuss what variational quantum algorithms are and how they can be used to solve problems taking advantage of both quantum and classical computing resources. Along the way, I will summarize what the current research directions are in variational algorithms and how one might start working on such problems.
More information on Swarnadeep and his work can be found at http://brownlab.pratt.duke.edu .