Research Detours Second edition announcement

Check the speakers for the second edition of our webinar series, which celebrates the beauty of unconventional thinking.

The Second edition of the latest seminar series by the Quantum Formalism community will be held on Tuesday the 10th of September, at 5 pm UK time.

The Research Detours seminar aims to serve as your soapbox from which to give short talks to like-minded researchers on whatever research projects you’re interested in but haven’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:

• Veselin Gueorguiev: Cutting Edge Technologies You Can Deploy and Play with!

Abstract: The COVID19 pandemic catalyzed and shaped the remote-work process, which along with the abundance of online computing platforms stimulated explorations in the field of AI, ML and even Quantum Computing (QC). 

In this talk I will try to summarize and highlight some of the QC projects for which I have been involved in the past 4 years as a mentor at the Quantum Open Source Foundation (QOSF).

• Max Arnott: The Folding Map - An 'Almost' Quantum Embedding

Abstract: We define an area preserving map from a compact subset of real, two-dimensional space to the three-dimensional unit sphere. The map composes folding a cube-net shaped subset of the plane and projecting the faces of the resultant cube onto the sphere. We discuss the challenges of abstracting this map to arbitrary dimensions, which would be needed in order to use the map as a classical-to-quantum data embedding.

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!

QF Team