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SUMMARY:Making near-term quantum computers useful
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Zoë Holmes\, Laboratory of Quantum Information and Co
 mputation - QIC\n15h15   Inaugural lecture Prof. Zoë Holmes\n16h05   
 Inaugural lecture Prof. Giuseppe Carleo\n\nQuantum computers are expected 
 to substantially outperform classical computers for probing and simulating
  large entangled quantum systems. Such quantum algorithms have the potenti
 al to transform fields from materials science to quantum chemistry. Howeve
 r\, while quantum hardware is rapidly developing\, we remain solidly in th
 e so called Noisy Intermediary Scale Quantum (NISQ) era in which the avail
 able devices are relatively small and prone to noise. This substantially l
 imits what we can do with quantum hardware any time soon. Here we will dis
 cuss strategies to tease useful computations out of the small noisy quantu
 m computers that are currently available. \n\nBiography\nZoë Holmes obta
 ined her master's degree in Physics and Philosophy at the University of Ox
 ford in 2015. During her PhD at Imperial College London she worked on q
 uantum thermodynamics\, receiving her degree in February 2020. After com
 pleting a temporary research position at Exeter university\, she joined
  Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) as a post-doctoral researcher working on n
 ear-term quantum algorithms. In May 2021 she was awarded the Mark Kac po
 st-doctoral fellowship to continue her work at LANL. Since August 2022\
 , she has been a tenure track Assistant Professor of Physics in the School
  of Basic Sciences at the EPFL\, where she founded the Laboratory of Quant
 um Information and Computation. Her current research focuses on the founda
 tions of quantum machine learning and developing new approaches to quantum
  simulation. \n 
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