rryoung98
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1 year ago Event details
We approximate around 100 participants, and would like to offer 2-3 challenges with 3 possible challenge categories:
Schedule:
Due to time constraints and overlaps with some university deadlines for final year students we will be running the Quantum bootcamp from the 18-19th of February. We are avoiding the word "Hackathon" as Computer Science students associate them with hacking a server and we want to avoid any miscommunication issues in between departments. The schedule will be the following:
Saturday 18th
- 9:00 Opening Ceremony
- 10:00 Quantum 101 session
- 10:30 Python 101 session
- 11:00 Sponsor talks (both 1h talks will run simultaneously)
- 12:00 Academic talks (2x30 min sessions) on local research in quantum technology by university lecturers
- 13:00 Lunch break
- 14:00 Start 12h coding period
Sunday 19th
- 14:00 End 12h coding period
- 15:00 Industry talks (30/45min format)
- 17:00 Closing ceremony and prices
At the moment both challenge sponsors will be presenting their ch
Challenges:
1) A challenge that focuses on a challenging software problem to solve, curated for students with a lower understanding of Quantum physics and Quantum information, who have a strong background in programming but need an introduction to the field. 2) A challenge that focuses on resolving a deeply physics oriented problem with existing quantum software. This challenge should be curated towards physics students who have lesser expertise in the coding field, but who have a strong understanding of quantum theory (at an undergraduate level). 3) A challenge that is designed for undergraduate students with little experience in programming and Quantum physics, but who still have an understanding an level of expertise in these areas.
Dates
We would like to organize this event during the 2nd weekend of February. Saturday would be reserved for workshops, talks, and introductions, and Sunday would have a 12h coding challenge period (from 8am to 8pm UK time) followed by a closing ceremony the following week.
PrachiWomanium
From the organizers: The goal of the event is to introduce University of Bath students to quantum technologies and quantum software.
It is currently being organized as a student collaboration between the Physics and Computer Science departments, but all students with previous coding experience are welcome.
We are expecting around 100 participants, thus making it a relatively small and local event. Ideally we would like to have 2 to 3 challenges, proposed by sponsors. The ideal scenario is for the sponsors to give an initial workshop introducing their work as an institution and their proposed challenge. This is the first time we run an event of such sort, and especially within the physics department there might be students who are unfamiliar with a hackathon format, therefore we have been asked by the relevant departments to make the challenges relatively short.
Ideally the challenge or challenges will be completed by participants within 8 to 12 hours. All participants will come with different levels of coding experience and a big majority will have quantum physics notions, although those will be revised in some of the workshops we will organize alongside the industrial sponsor workshops.