Summer schools and workshops
on quantum technologies,
connecting research, students and industry.
Welcome to the Solstice of Foundations, a summer school on quantum foundations, hosted by ETH Zürich and Squid, with the support of the Quantum Center of ETH Zurich, Quantinuum and Huawei. This five-day school is designed to provide an introduction to current approaches and problems within quantum foundations, and is tailored to junior researchers entering…
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Quantum Physics for Non-Physicists is a semester course given by Lídia del Rio at ETH Zurich. This page is dedicated to the Fall 2021 edition of the course; tutorials were given by Lidia Stocker and Nuriya Nurgalieva. Lectures: [YouTube playlist] [Script] Tutorials: [YouTube playlist] Exercise sheets and solutions (updated on the course of the semester):…
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Advanced Topics in Quantum Information Theory is a semester course given by Lídia del Rio and Ralph Silva at ETH Zurich. This page is dedicated to the Spring 2021 edition of the course; tutorials were given by Nuriya Nurgalieva. Lectures: [YouTube playlist] [Script] Tutorials: [YouTube playlist] Exercise sheets and solutions: Sheet 1: unitarity, partial trace,…
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Quantum Physics for Non-Physicists is a semester course given by Lídia del Rio at ETH Zurich. This page is dedicated to the Fall 2020 edition of the course; tutorials were given by Nuriya Nurgalieva. Lectures: [YouTube playlist] [Script] Tutorials: [YouTube playlist] Exercise sheets and solutions: Sheet 1: practicing Dirac notation, a particle in a box,…
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Welcome to the Quantum Thermodynamics summer school, hosted by NCCR SwissMap and Squid, with the support of the Quantum Center of ETH Zurich. This five-day school is designed to provide a solid introduction to current approaches and problems within quantum thermodynamics, and is tailored to junior researchers entering the field. Register at the school’s website,…
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Save the date: 8-13 September 2019, ETH Zurich. Squid is bringing you the second edition of the Quantum Information for Developers summer school on quantum computing. Registration is open until 30th of August, AoE. Confirmed speakers include: Renato Renner, ETH Zurich (basics of quantum mechanics, gates and circuits) Joran van Apeldoorn, QuSoft & CWI Amsterdam…
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In June 2019, Squid organised a summer school on quantum foundations at ETH Zurich, Solstice of Foundations. Video recordings of all the lectures will be made available on the school’s website. Here is some participant feedback and our main conclusions from it. Demographics Registered participants: 88, of which 26 from ETH Zurich. Feedback: 44 responses. Prior…
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ETH Zurich, 3-4 June 2019 If you are curious about the quantum buzz, and would like to contribute to open source quantum computing software development, this hands-on workshop will get you started. Over the course of two days, we will cover: Quantum computing, from basic principles to a state-of-the-art algorithm. How to contribute to…
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Program a quantum computer, win a trip to Sochi Deadline: 15th of January 2019, AoE. Notification: 30th January 2019. Open to: ETH Zurich students (bachelors, masters, PhD), in teams of 1-3. In collaboration with ETH Zurich and the Russian Quantum Center, Squids brings you the first edition of Quantum Symphony, a competition…
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Save the date: 17-21 June 2019, ETH Zurich. Squid is bringing you the second edition of the Solstice of Foundations summer school on quantum foundations. Confirmed speakers include: Matthew Leifer, Chapman University (interpretations of quantum theory) Markus Müller, U. Vienna (agent-based approaches) Sandu Popescu, U. Bristol (paradoxes) Matthew Pusey, University of Oxford (contextuality) Tony Short, University…
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