Mid-term checkpoint

[HuangJunye]

Hi Advocates! On Thursday, April 1st we will have the mid-point demos of your projects during the monthly meetup times. There are two meetup times to accomodate our international audience! Eastern hemisphere (GMT+0), 10am and Western hemisphere (ET/GMT-5), 4pm.

Please fill out this form by Tuesday, 3/30, to let us know which time you plan to present, as well as give us some feedback about how everything is going so far!

[HuangJunye]

Mentors	Mentees	Projects
Bryce Fuller (@BryceFuller)	Miro Tomasik (@molar-volume)	#22 Implement new classical optimizers in qiskit
James Weaver (@JavaFXpert)	Abhigyan Mishra (@Abhigyan-Mishra), Samuel Choi (@sierpinskiii)	#16 Hearing quantum evolution
Ryan Mandelbaum (@ryanfmandelbaum)	Eric Michiels (@EACMichiels), Kiran Johns (@thetronjohnson)	#15 Find and write recurring blog posts about Qiskitter work
Travis L. Scholten (@Travis-S-IBM)	Saesun Kim (@bagmk)	#11 Enhance Qiskit papers database & replication study
Matthew Treinish (@mtreinish)	Nahum Rosa Cruz Sá (@nahumsa), Georgios Tsilimigkounakis (@georgios-ts), Chris (Jielun) Chen (@Chriscrosser3310), Ivan de Avila Ribeiro Carvalho (@IvanIsCoding)	#8 Good first issues in retworkx
Hwajung Kang (@HwajungKang)	Filippo Tramonto (@filippotramonto), David Morcuende (@morcu)	#40 Create a tutorial for Iterative Phase Estimation (IPE) algorithm
Helena Zhang (@coruscating)	Aziz NGOUEYA AKANJI BENGA (@AzizNgoueya)	#44 Mixed state discrimination
Helena Zhang (@coruscating)	Sumit Puri (@sumitpuri), Utkarsh (@obliviateandsurrender)	#9 Update Ignis discriminator
Frank Harkins (@frankharkins)	kavitha yogaraj (@hykavitha), Zhiyong Zhang (@zyzhang1992)	#1 Update HHL section in Qiskit textbook
Shelly Garion (@ShellyGarion)	SheshaShayee Raghunathan (@shesha-raghunathan), Pierre Decoodt (@pdc-quantum)	#20 Bayesian techniques for randomized benchmarking
Julien Gacon (@Cryoris)	Manjula Gandhi S (@ManjulaGandhi), Mantas Cepulkovskis (@mantcep)	#12 Arithmetic circuit library
Amira Abbas (@amyami187)	Yuma Nakamura (@YumaNK)	#21 Quantum finance explainer
Luciano Bello (@1ucian0)	Tharrmashastha SAPV (@TharrmashasthaPV)	#5 Good first issues in qiskit-terra
Luciano Bello (@1ucian0)	Jack Woehr (@jwoehr)	#39 Unified API to import/export circuits in Qiskit
Marcel Pfaffhauser (@TigrisCallidus)	Edwin Agnew (@edwinagnew), Matthew Stypulkoski (@Matt-Stypulkoski)	#3 Generation (and analysis) of quantum randomness (for procedural generation)
Marcel Pfaffhauser (@TigrisCallidus)	Shek Lun Leung (@alanspace)	#4 Lossy image compression using Unity and real quantum computers
Naoki Kanazawa (@nkanazawa1989)	Spencer Churchill (@splch), Farai Mazhandu (@faraimazh), Kazumasa Umezawa (@kUmezawa), Soyoung Shin (@0sophy1)	#2 Upgrade Qiskit textbook pulse section
Atsushi Matsuo (@a-matsuo)	Takehiko Amano (@ibmamnt), Kaori Namba (@knamba-jp)	#24 Add more types of constraints for the Qiskit Optimization
Anna Phan (@attp)	Antonio Macaluso (@amacaluso)	#41 Quantum neural network section for Qiskit textbook quantum machine learning chapter
Anna Phan (@attp)	Eraraya Ricardo Muten (@eraraya-ricardo)	#43 QML Qiskit implementations
Pierre Decoodt (@pdc-quantum)	Spencer King (@spencerking), Cenk Tüysüz (@cnktysz)	#27 Quantum state classifier to optimize the transmission of highly entangled states
Daniel Sierra-Sosa (@dsierrasosa)	Rochisha Agarwal (@rochisha0), Soham Pal (@e-eight), Iqra Naz (@iqranaz240)	#30 Classical data preprocessing influence on QML
Waheeda Saib (@waheeda-saib)	kareem hesham el-safty (@kareem1925)	#43 QML for Quantum chemistry

[HuangJunye]

Sorry for pinging everyone here. This will only be used for making announcements. Please fill up the form for mid-term checkpoint presentation and provide us feedback!

[jwoehr]

@HuangJunye assuming we filled out the form and then completely forgot what we said, how can we determine what time we promised to be available, please? "Asking for a friend." :) :) :)

[pdc-quantum]

@HuangJunye This seems to be the mentee list. I am both as mentor in one project and mentee in another. I read on the form: "Are you a mentor or mentee? If you have both roles, please submit two separate responses as each role". However I wonder if the other mentors will be asked to fill out the form. Please be kind to confirm if I have to fill out a second form as mentor.
And thank you again for your invaluable contributions to the realization of this program.

[HuangJunye]

@HuangJunye assuming we filled out the form and then completely forgot what we said, how can we determine what time we promised to be available, please? "Asking for a friend." :) :) :)

You can just DM me if you forgot about the time slot. But for most people only one of the time slot is convenient so it's usually not a problem.

[HuangJunye]

@HuangJunye This seems to be the mentee list. I am both as mentor in one project and mentee in another. I read on the form: "Are you a mentor or mentee? If you have both roles, please submit two separate responses as each role". However I wonder if the other mentors will be asked to fill out the form. Please be kind to confirm if I have to fill out a second form as mentor. And thank you again for your invaluable contributions to the realization of this program.

I initially plan to contact mentors separately on Slack to ask them to fill up the feedback form as well, but perhaps adding them here is also a good idea. As for you, please fill up the form twice, one as mentor and the other as mentee.

[HuangJunye]

Mentors please fill out the feedback form as well. Please also urge your mentees to fill out the form, select presentation slot and prepare for the presentation as the mid-term checkpoint is just one week away. Thank you very much!

Mentors
Bryce Fuller (@BryceFuller)
James Weaver (@JavaFXpert)
Ryan Mandelbaum (@ryanfmandelbaum)
Travis L. Scholten (@Travis-S-IBM)
Matthew Treinish (@mtreinish)
Hwajung Kang (@HwajungKang)
Helena Zhang (@coruscating)
Frank Harkins (@frankharkins)
Shelly Garion (@ShellyGarion)
Julien Gacon (@Cryoris)
Amira Abbas (@amyami187)
Luciano Bello (@1ucian0)
Marcel Pfaffhauser (@TigrisCallidus)
Naoki Kanazawa (@nkanazawa1989)
Atsushi Matsuo (@a-matsuo)
Anna Phan (@attp)
Pierre Decoodt (@pdc-quantum)
Daniel Sierra-Sosa (@dsierrasosa)
Waheeda Saib (@waheeda-saib)

[HuangJunye]

We have received 18 mentee responses from 15 teams so far. Please fill out the from by Tuesday. 3/30 to give some enough time to prepare for the mid-term checkpoint. This is a joint form for presentation and feedback so even if your teammate has filled out the form and indicated a presentation slot, we still want each one of you to fill the form to give us feedback to improve as the program goes on.

The presentation slots for eastern hemisphere (10 am GMT) are almost filled, if you are able to attend the the western hemisphere (4pm ET), please select this time slot. If you already filled the form but want to change the time slot, please let me or Kallie know.

We want to collect your presentation and upload to the github repo after the presentation. Please make sure your slides clearly state your project name, mentor, mentee names, project description and current progress.

Thank you very much. We can’t wait see what you all have made so far!

[HuangJunye]

Please see the presentation order here (password: qiskitadvocate). Please let me (Kallie) know if you want to change your presentation time for Eastern (Western) hemisphere call. Please email us your presentation slides (pptx or pdf format) before the call as backup in case you face technical issues of sharing screen. We will upload the presentation slides on this GitHub repo after the calls.

Please rename your slides in this format: project#_projectname_mentorname_menteename, e.g. #16_hearing-quantum-evolution_James-Weaver_Abhigyan-Mishra_Samuel-Choi

Emails: Junye: junye.huang@ibm.com Kallie: kallie.ferguson@ibm.com