IQPS: Schedule

WeekDate commencingLecturesTutorialsLabs and coursework
113 Jan 2025Tue: Introduction

Thu: Quantum circuits
  
220 Jan 2025

Tue: Composition and tensor product, OpenQASM

Thu: Graphical calculus

  
327 Jan 2025

Tue: Bending space and time

Thu: Tensor networks

Wed: circuits and states 
43 Feb 2025

Tue: Copying and deleting

Thu: Classical data, Qiskit

Wed: tensor networks

 

 

510 Feb 2025

Tue: Complementarity

Thu: no lecture

Wed: Frobenius structures

Mon: coursework released

 

624 Feb 2025

Tue: ZX calculus

Thu: Classical quantum circuits

Wed: ZX rewritingMon: coursework due
73 Mar 2025

Tue: Measurement, Q#

Thu: Clifford circuits

Wed: CNOT circuitsWed: lab PyZX
810 Mar 2025

Tue: Circuit optimisation

Thu: Quantum simulation

Wed: Clifford circuits 
917 Mar 2025

Tue: Oracles, Quipper

Thu: Uncomputation, Silq

Wed: Pauli gadgets
(Note: different room!)

Mon: coursework feedback

Wed: lab Q#

1024 Mar 2025

Tue: Advanced topics

Thu: revision

  



Those who asked about learning more category theory can consider the bonus material. All of it is completely optional; feel free to skip any bit of it.

WeekDate commencingReadingTutorials
220 Jan 2025[HV 0.1.1-0.1.5, 1.1, 1.2]  
327 Jan 2025[HV 2.1, 2.3, 3.1][HV 1.4.3, 1.4.4]
43 Feb 2025[HV 3.2, 3.4.2, 3.4.5][HV 3.5.9, 3.5.10]
510 Feb 2025[HV 4.1, 0.1.8, 4.3, 5.1][HV 4.4.2ab, 4.4.4, 5.7.1]
624 Feb 2025[HV 5.4.3, 6.1, 6.3][HV 6.6.4, 6.6.6]

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