Quantum Africa 6 (Kigali, Rwanda and online)
ZoomThe 6th edition of the Qunatum Africa Conference series will take place from 12 to 16 September 2022. To register please click here.
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2022-09-16 Group Meeting: Dr Graeme Pleasance (SU):Pseudomode description of general open quantum system dynamics with applications to heat transport
TeamsIn today's group meeting Dr Graeme Pleasance will speak about his recent work on "Pseudomode description of general open quantum system dynamics with applications to heat transport".
2022-09-19 NITheCS Colloquium
ZoomProf Stefan Lotz (North-West University & SANSA) will speak about Knowledge Discovery in Time Series Data. For further information please visit the NITheCS website To register for the webinar please click here.
Public Lecture at AIMS: Francesco Petruccione, Entanglement: from Theory to Quantum Computers
Entanglement: from theory to quantum computing Francesco Petruccione (Stellenbosch University and NITheCS) Abstract: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for conducting groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states. In this lecture, we … Continue reading
Weekly Quantum Group Webinar: Martin Canaan Mafunda, Comparison of machine learning algorithms for automated tweet identification system
ZoomComparison of machine learning algorithms for an automated tweet identification system Martin Canaan Mafunda (UKZN) Abstract: In this study, six machine learning algorithms are trained based on 3100 tweets with either pro-Zuma, anti-Zuma or neutral sentiments. The aim of the … Continue reading
Quantum@SUN Unconfernce
Stellenbosch University, Physics Department School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, StellenboschThe Quantum Unconference brings to Stellenbosch some of my UKZN students. We will go through the drafts of their papers and their theses.
Weekly Quantum Group Webinar: Matt Lourens, Hierarchical architecture representations for quantum convolutional neural networks
Stellenbosch University, Physics Department School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, StellenboschThe Quantum Convolutional Neural Network (QCNN) is a quantum circuit model inspired by the architecture of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs are successful because they do not need manual feature design and can learn high-level features from raw data. Neural … Continue reading
Webinar: Amira Abbas, The feasibility of quantum backpropagation
Stellenbosch University, Physics Department School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, StellenboschAbstract: The success of modern deep learning hinges on the ability to train neural networks at scale. Through clever reuse of intermediate information, backpropagation facilitates training through gradient computation at a total cost roughly proportional to running the function, rather … Continue reading
Quantum Colloquium: Dario Rosa, Moving Towards Quantum Technologies: The Case of Quantum Batteries
Stellenbosch University, Physics Department School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, StellenboschProf Dario Rosa (Institute for Basic Science; University of Science & Technology, South Korea) Moving Towards Quantum Technologies: The Case of Quantum Batteries ABSTRACT Quantum batteries are quantum mechanical systems used as energy storage devices. As with many other proposed … Continue reading
Quantum Colloquium: Emma King, Universal cooling dynamics toward a quantum critical point
Stellenbosch University, Physics Department School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, StellenboschTitle of talk: Universal cooling dynamics toward a quantum critical point Speaker: Emma King (present affiliation: University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany; the work I will present was done at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa). Abstract: Curiosity surrounding concepts such as … Continue reading