21-25 July, University of Zürich
In 2025, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the discovery of quantum mechanics, with the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. In fact, Schrödinger’s equation was discovered in 1925 at the University of Zurich! As part of a year of festivities, the Digital Society Initiative of UZH and the Institute of Physics of UZH hosted a 5-day summer school on quantum computing together with Squid.
The hybrid summer school was aimed at bachelors, masters and PhD students from the fields of physics, mathematics and computer science, who are interested in quantum computing and would like to learn a solid base on basic topics and current research approaches.
Our lecturers are world-leading researchers and covered subjects spanning from “what is a qubit?” to quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, quantum games, error correction, quantum cryptography and quantum chemistry.
More information, and the videos to all lectures, can be found on the school’s website.
Lectures
- Introduction to quantum computing, by Ronald de Wolf [Chapters 1 and 2 of Ronald’s lecture notes] [problem sheets]
- Quantum algorithms, by Ronald de Wolf [Chapters 4,5 and 7 of Ronald’s lecture notes]
- Quantum Cryptography, by Carla Ferradini [lecture notes]
- Quantum Complexity Theory, by Tony Metger
- Quantum Chemistry, by Freek Witteveen [lecture notes]
- Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing, by Manuel Rispler
- Quantum Games, by Evert van Niewenburg
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