IEEE SERVICES HACKATHON 2021

Deadline by August, 30th

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The competition

Despite the limited execution time, and the relatively high level of noise, the success of near-time quantum computing seems to be at the reach of our fingertips thanks to the intimate collaboration between classical and quantum computing. Cloud architectures leveraging colocation of classical and quantum resources, enable applicable fast, iterative dynamic workflows, where new circuits are created on the fly, according to the results of classical computations.

Introduced by IBM Quantum, Qiskit Runtime is a new model of execution aiming at fulfilling the promises of near-time quantum computing by executing hybrid classical and quantum Python programs.

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Who can participate?

The Hackathon is open to all people, proffessionals, undergraduate, and postgraduate students from Universities, companies and institutions worldwide who are 18 years and older. There is an specific category for students where participants can count on expert advice through coachers.

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Qiskit Runtime

Introduced by IBM Quantum, Qiskit Runtime is a new model of execution aiming at fulfilling the promises of near-time quantum computing by executing hybrid classical and quantum Python programs.

We challenge the participants to create innovative cloud services on top of custom quantum programs or to find novel applications for the Qiskit Runtime's built-in library.

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Variational Quantum Eigensolver

Find the ground state of a Hamiltonian via a parametrized quantum circuit. A classical optimizer is used to find the circuit parameters. Applictions ranges from finding groundstates in quantum chemistry, to finding solutions to combinatorial optimization problems.

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Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

A variant of the above particularly suited for combinatorial optimization where the circuits are constructed with some convergence guarantees if the circuits could be made long enough.


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By participating in the IEEE SERVICES 2021 hackathon, we all abide by the Qiskit Code of Conduct, IEEE Code of Conduct and IEEE Code of Ethics

Hackathon comittee

Va Barbosa, IBM • Luciano Bello, IBM • Ismael Faro, IBM • Russell Huffman, IBM
Rong N. Chang, IBM • Salvador de la Puente, IBM • Jessie Yu, IBM
Jinjun Xiong, IBM • Stefan Wörner, IBM

Credits

All images contributed by Rusell Huffman.
Know more about his inspiring Quantum Art.