Research Detours first edition announcement

Check the first 3 names chosen to speak on our webinar series that celebrates the beauty of unconventional thinking.

The first edition of the latest seminar series by the Quantum Formalism community will be held on Tuesday the 9^th of July, at 5 pm UK time.

The Research Detours seminar aims to serve as your soap box from which to give short talks to like-minded researchers on whatever research projects you’re interested in but hasn’t, for whatever reason, had the chance or the appropriate platform to share. Using this platform, we aim to foster fruitful discussions and new collaborations within the QF community.

The speakers this time will be:

• Mehdi Chehimi – talking about his concept of the quantum smart city, to revolutionise urban living in myriad ways. Quantum digital twins for autonomous vehicles will enable real-time optimization and improved interaction. Quantum sensors and networks will enhance pedestrian safety. He proposes quantum holographic teleportation for high-fidelity, secure data transfer. The city's infrastructure will feature a quantum communication network with Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) for secure communication and support distributed quantum computing via cloud-based quantum systems, including Quantum Federated Learning and blind quantum computing. Challenges include integrating quantum sensors, managing data streams, and ensuring scalability.

• Abderrahim Adrabi – speaking about his idea of a virtual laboratory where one can visualise abstract mathematical concepts, with the goal of making these concepts more intuitive. Further, the idea is evolved to become an interactive virtual laboratory in which to visualise and experiment with topological quantum computing components.

• George Zipperlen – speaking about arithmetic with the quantum harmonic oscillator, and asking the question: just as the Pauli operators can be used as gates to manipulate qubits to do quantum logic, could ladder operators manipulate quantum harmonic oscillators to do quantum arithmetic?

We received many requests to speak at the first edition, and we can only choose a few at a time, so if you were not selected, then you may still be invited to speak at a future edition. If you would like to speak in a future edition, you can apply using the Link. You can talk on any topic involving machine learning, quantum computing, quantum physics, or pure mathematics.

Thank you to everyone who signed up. Congratulations to the first speakers chosen and good luck to the next ones!

QF Team