Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig, head of the Enterprise Application Development (EAD) group of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz (HZG, Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz), gave the talk "Understanding Quantum Computing - Computing Model and Algorithms" on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 15:10 (3:10pm) in Hefei University [合肥学院] in the Lecture Room 308 at the third floor of Building 35 [合肥学院 计算机科学与技术系 合肥市 230601蜀山区 经济技术开发区 南2区/南艳湖校区 锦绣大道99号 35栋 308教室]. [poster]
The talk was open for all interested audiences and presented a really nice and easy-to-understand introduction to quantum computing from the perspective of algorithms. Quantum computing seems to become a real possibility in the near future, with IBM making a 20-qubit computer available through their "Q-Experience" program via the web for any user and announcing a 50-qubit computer. In his interesting lecture on this exciting topic, Prof. Lässig explained the basic mathematics and features of quantum computations and gave live demonstrations of two algorithms on the IBM system via the web. This way, the audience obtained a basic understanding on how to write programs for quantum computers within only 1.5 hours of time.
This talk followed directly the presentation "An Application Meta-Model to Support the Execution and Benchmarking of Scientific Applications in Multi-Cloud Environments" by Mr. Markus Ullrich in the same room, which started at 14:00.
Abstract
Currently a second quantum revolution is taking place. In the last century -in a first quantum revolution- the fundamental laws of quantum science were discovered and further evolved. Groundbreaking technologies such as the transistor and the laser have been developed, utilizing the new physics and its principles. Now, on the next level, technologies that explicitly address individual states with quantum properties such as superposition and entanglement are developed and established. Quantum communication and cryptography are vivid research areas as well as quantum information processing and quantum computing. In an initial lecture and subsequent additional workshops we want to get access to the field of quantum computing by reviewing the model behind as well as fundamental algorithms and shed light in the current state of quantum computing technologies.
Short Biography
Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz (HSZG). He studied Computer Science and Computational Physics and received his Ph.D. for work on efficient algorithms and models for the generation and control of cooperation networks at Chemnitz University of Technology. As postdoc he worked in projects at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley, California and at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. His EAD research group at HSZG and his IT security group with the Fraunhofer Society are focusing on topics concerned with intelligent data driven technologies for state-of-the-art IT infrastructures and services. Prof. Lässig is also a co-chair of our International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA) and a co-guest editor of the Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms in the Computational Intelligence Journal with Profs. Thomas Weise, Bin Li (USTC), Markus Wagner (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Xingyi Zhang (Anhui University).
