Launch of 'Winter for Application' talk series!
This time the focus is on applications of quantum computers.
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Dear all,
OneQuantum Nepal is happy to be back with a very exciting line up of speakers from industries and academia in quantum computing. The theme at OQN for the winter session is 'Winter for Application'. In the next months, you will listen to presentations related to quantum algorithms as well as other important use cases of quantum computers in fields such as finance and engineering, among others. In addition, given the experiment background of some of our speakers, you will also hear about how these algorithms could be realised experimentally at the level of qubits and gates in a range of quantum computing architecture. We are again happy to present a good mix of national as well as international speakers.
To kick things off, we welcome our first speaker in the series - Yadav P. Kandel. Mr. Kandel is a doctoral researcher at University of Rochester. Inspiringly, he hails from Nepal. In his talk, he will tell us about electrons in semiconductors, which allows one to define qubit states in it. Please checkout the advertisement poster below for the talk abstract:
The event takes place at 7 PM Nepali time on October 21, 2021 (Thursday). To enter the meeting room, please click on the zoom link below:
We thank our speaker, Mr. Yadav P. Kandel, and are very much looking forward to listening to his talk.
Kind regards,
Manish
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