The Columbia Undergraduate Quantum Computing Club (CUQCC) is a group of undergraduate students who share the common interest of discussing and learning from different areas of research in quantum computing. While engaged in a seminar format, members of CUQCC will have an opportunity to talk with other like-minded people from all sorts of backgrounds. Everyone is welcomed!
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1st | Akshat Yaparla | Introduction Talk + what is Quantum Computing | An introduction into CUQCC and its seminar-stype format; then a discussion on Shor’s Algorithm, the algorithm that showed quantum supremacy over classical machines |
| Feb 8th | Manuel Paez | Quantum Key Distribution, CHSH game, and Quantum Cryptography | An introduction into the famous CHSH game, the BB84 protocol, and a proof of security for a Quantum Key Distribution (quantum cryptography) protocol that combines both concepts (Lecture based on Varizani, Vidick’s 2019 paper) |
| Feb 15th | Arjun Kudinoor | Entanglement For The Masses | A discussion on qubit spin, entanglement, and teleportation without the use of mathematical equations (conceptual) |
| Feb 22th | Aswath Suryanarayanan | The dynamics of quantum information (MBL, entropy, scrambling) | |
| Mar 1st | TBD | TBD | |
| Mar 8th | No Lecture | ||
| Mar 15th | Spring Break | ||
| Mar 22nd | —- | —- | — |
| Mar 29th | Manuel Paez | Verifiable Quantum Advantage without Structure (Part 1) | A proof for NP-search problems are solvable by BQP machines but not BPP machines using random oracles. (based on Yamakawa, Zhandry’s 2022 paper) |
| April 5th | Shuhan Zhang | Quantum Error Correction | TBD |
| April 12th | TBD | TBD | — |
| April 19th | TBD | TBD | — |
| April 26th | TBD | TBD | — |