SPAWAR 301 September 12th and 13th, 2016:
The goal of this class is to look at:
The direction and development of QC as an industry
The future generations, features and applications for D-Wave
“Traveling Salesman Problems” with a lab T
The evidence of quantum mechanics in our system
Structured prediction and learning with Boltzmann machines on the D-Wave
The class will be held UCSD/Extension, 6256 Greenwich Dr, San Diego, Ca 92122, University City Center, room 206. Attendees will work on desktops provided by UCSD/Extension.
A light breakfast will be available at 8:30 AM in Room 315 and lunch will be provided at noon, instruction will begin at 9:00 AM ending at 5:00 PM each day.
INSTRUCTORS:
Eric Ladizinsky is a physicist, Co-founder, and Chief Scientist of D-Wave Systems. He was primarily responsible for the company’s transition, in 2004, from an IP based company to a technology development company … advocating an aggressive, mini Manhattan Project-like approach to building quantum computers. This included building of interdisciplinary science/engineering teams, establishing a rapid prototyping infrastructure/culture and developing of D-Wave’s, world leading, Superconducting Integrated Circuit capability (in semiconductor production fabs) underlying D-Wave’s quantum processors.
Dr. Edward (Denny) Dahl received his PhD in physics from Stanford University and has worked in the field of high performance computing for three decades. He has held positions at Thinking Machines Corporation, Teradata and LLNL, and has provided consulting services to eBay, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. Denny joined D-Wave Systems in 2012. He will be discussing general principles of quantum computing, focusing on the D-Wave hardware and software environments and cover various programming options in detail
Dr. Yanbo Xue received BSc and MSc in Control Theory and Engineering from Northeastern University, China in 2001 and 2004, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McMaster University, Canada in 2010. Yanbo has been employed as a machine learning researcher at D-Wave Systems Inc. since 2013.
Dr. Trevor Lanting received a BSc in Physics and Astronomy from the University of British Columbia in 2000 and a PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. Trevor has been employed as an experimental physicist at D-Wave Systems Inc. since 2008.
