Workshops

C-DAC is organizing a workshop titled “Engineering and Integration Challenges in Quantum Communication and Quantum Computing” on March 21-22, 2024 in Pune, India.

The workshop seeks to bring all the players both in the Indian and global quantum ecosystem, together on a single platform and look at various technologies, platforms, global developments, and challenges towards stable, sustainable product development.

The intended audience includes academia, R&D organizations industry/startups, and government agencies. The workshop will feature a variety of interesting talks/tutorials and sessions by industry on varied subjects from Optical simulation to quantum circuit design.

Following will be the focus areas:

• Free space quantum communication
• Fiber-based quantum communication
• Quantum Aerial Network
• Quantum Key Distribution
• Post Quantum Cryptography
• Engineering and integration challenges in realizing quantum computers using various quantum technologies as well as hybrid quantum computing platforms.

To find out more about the event details, please click on the following link:

https://www.cdac.in/index.aspx?id=ev_QAC_03_2024

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We are glad to invite you all to attend the upcoming Technical Session cum Invited Talk by Dr. Mostafizur Rahaman.  The hybrid mode session is planned for 15th March, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, At Shivneri Hall, C-DAC, Pune. 

In case you wish to attend the session  online, please join from the below link

https://hpct.webex.com/hpct/j.php?MTID=me481b6714a40df7fe7c3616ce66fc23e
Meeting number (access code): 2511 178 0120
Meeting password: pjUwwZy6M57 (75899996 from video systems)

The Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in collaboration with the Center of Development and Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Bengaluru, announces the inauguration of a five-day Faculty Development Program (FDP) under the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE).

The event occurred on February 12, 2024, at 9:30 AM, marking a significant milestone in technical and academic excellence.

The inauguration ceremony was graced by the presence of the Director of MIT, Cdr. (Dr) Anil Rana, who presided over the function. The esteemed Dr. Asvija, Associate Director of C-DAC Bengaluru, adorned the ceremony as the Chief Guest and delivered an inspiring keynote address, shedding light on the potential of quantum technologies in the modern realm.

Dr.Krishnamoorti Makkithaya, the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT,  extended a warm welcome to the guest experts and participating individuals.

The coordination of the faculty development program was skillfully managed by Dr. R Vijayan Arjunan, who shared valuable insights into the importance of the program’s objectives and outcomes for development. A vote of thanks was presented by Dr. Kishore B, who expressed gratitude to all attendees for their dedication and enthusiasm.

The attendees displayed a great deal of interest in learning about quantum technologies and their practical applications. They collaborated and pooled their efforts to enhance their skills and knowledge in this cutting-edge field.

The program aims to equip the faculty members with the necessary tools and knowledge to navigate through the complexities of quantum technology.

The initiative reflects MIT and MAHE’s commitment to staying at the forefront of technological advancements and building a strong foundation in technical advancement and building skills.

The Faculty Development Program(FDP) is a five-day event covering Linear Algebra, Quantum Mechanics, as well as hands-on practice with Quantum Computing using Quantum Simulator(QSim) and Quantum Network Simulator(QNS).

Attaching a snippet from the Program below:

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Kindly register using this mentioned link: https://forms.pabbly.com/form/share/xokK-722596110

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Please join the webinar using the below-mentioned link.

Webinar Link: https://shorturl.at/benCK

Event Organized by: TIE Matrix in collaboration with CDAC- Bengaluru.

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Organized by: IIT Roorkee

In Collaboration with Center of Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC) with the support of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY) Govt. Of India.

Please refer to the brochure for registration and more details:

Brochure

Topics covered –

• Building Quantum Computers and the realms of its possibilities – by Dr. C M Chandrashekar, IISc
• Role of IEEE in quantum computing – by Shri. Srikanth Chandrashekaran, Senior Director, IEEE
• Quantum networks – by Dr. Asvija, Joint Director, C-DAC Bangalore
• Quantum Computing Simulator and QSim – Mr. Henry Sukumar, Joint Director, C-DAC Bangalore

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Quantum Techade 2023 event would epitomize the progress of the nation in the field of Quantum Technologies. The primary goal of the program is to facilitate the convergence of decision-makers and leading experts with practical experience, to exchange ideas and develop strategies that reduce the time to market in the development and realization of various quantum technologies in India. During this year’s summit, themed around Co-creation and Collaboration, the delegates share their insights to foster collaboration and create synergy to establish India as a prominent center for Quantum Technology in the global arena.

Please refer to the below link for more details

https://quantumindia.net/quantum-techade-2023/

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Guidelines Tentative Schedule_Symposium on Quantum Computing

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The area of quantum machine learning (QML) is a young one and is expanding quickly. QML builds artificial intelligence that utilizes quantum technology to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of learning algorithms. In order to overcome the difficulties of merging quantum computation and machine learning and to advance our understanding in this field, interdisciplinary solid cooperation is required. The lecture’s objectives are to introduce QML to the audience and to examine the field’s scope as well as its technical difficulties.

The speaker, Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti is a Full Professor at the A.K.Choudhury School of Information Technology at the University of Calcutta. He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the School of Engineering, Princeton University, USA during 2011-2012. He has 20+ years of experience in Engineering Education and Research. He is the recipient of the DST BOYSCAST fellowship award in Engineering Science (2011), the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Visiting Faculty Fellowship (2014), the JSPS Invitation Research Award (2016), Erasmus Mundus Leaders Award (2017), the Hamied Visiting Professorship from University of Cambridge, UK (2018), Siksha Ratna Award by Dept. of Higher Education Govt. of West Bengal (2018) and has been awarded as the Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (2022).

Since his Ph.D. research, Dr. Chakrabarti has been an active researcher in Quantum Computing Logic Synthesis, Quantum CAD, and Quantum Algorithms. In his Ph.D. research, he developed strategies for quantum logic synthesis and was one of the key contributors in formulating the nearest neighbor problem. During his Postdoctoral Research at Princeton University, he contributed to the circuit optimization techniques for PMD-specific quantum gate libraries and also to the development of the first-of-its-kind Fault-Tolerant Quantum Logic Synthesis tool coined as “FTQLS”. He and his research team have made good contributions to Quantum Algorithms such as Random Walks, Binary Welded Tree, Graph Coloring, and Click problems, which solves many of the important computing problems in the Quantum Computing Domain. In 2021 his research group devised the entire Ant-Colony Optimisation problem in the Quantum-setting, which was the first of its kind and this resulted in the award of IBM Quantum Researchers Access Award to his group, and they were the first group in India to receive this award. His Ph.D. students are working in top Quantum Computing Organizations such as HCL, ATOS, PWC, etc. He is also the mentor of the first Quantum startup in Eastern India coined “QRDLab”.

He has also served in various capacities in various higher education organizations both at national and international levels. He has published around 200+ research papers in referred journals and conferences and has graduated 20 Ph.D. students. He is the Series Editor of Springer Transactions of Computer Systems and Networks, the Series Editor of the Springer Book Series on “Water Informatics, an Associated Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering, and Guest Editor of the Springer Journal of Applied Sciences. He is a Sr. Member of IEEE and ACM, IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, Distinguished Speaker of ACM, Secretary of IEEE CEDA India Chapter, Member of the International Water Association, Vice President of the Data Science Society, and Life Member of CSI India. His areas of research are Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Reconfigurable Computing, and VLSI CAD.

Please refer to the below-provided link for more details.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quantum-paradigm-for-machine-learning-tickets-470791669557

The Workshop features expert talks from quantum researchers and practitioners, exclusive hands-on, case studies and tools, and first-hand experience with educative lab walkthroughs. This Workshop targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, senior managers, decision-makers, research scholars, and technology officers to general quantum enthusiasts.

Brochure.

The Webinar will feature an expert talk from Dr. R. Srikanth, Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research, Bangalore.  at 11.30 AM (IST).

Duration: 2 Hours

Please join the webinar using the below-mentioned link.

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The Webinar will feature an expert talk from Dr. CM Chandrashekar, Institue of Mathematical Sciences(IMSc),  Chennai at 10 AM (IST).

Duration: 2 Hours

Quantum systems that can exist in different states at the same time form qubit, the building block of quantum computers.   Many outcomes can be simultaneously evaluated using qubits resulting in exponentially faster calculating power.  A fully fault-tolerant 50-100 qubits may be able to perform tasks which surpass the capabilities of best-performing classical computers.   I will first present some problems of practical relevance which need the power of quantum computers to address them. Though the last two decades have seen immense progress in our ability to control and engineer quantum systems, building quantum computers with practical relevance has been a challenging task.  With different quantum systems still in the race for being efficient qubits, claims for supremacy are changing gears.   I will present an overview of various quantum systems being pursued to build quantum computers, the current state of the art and the challenges ahead in the field.    

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The Webinar will feature an expert talk from Prof.  Prasanta K. Panigrahi, IISER, Kolkata at 10 AM (IST).

Duration: 2 Hours

This talk will focus on Quantum technologies that purely rely on quantum mechanical phenomena such as quantum superposition and quantum entanglement and makes it possible to perform tasks such as teleportation and dense coding, which is impossible for classical computers.

Quantum computers employ qubits as compared to digital computers, which store data as bits (ones and zeros in binary), whereas, in the former, the superposition principle opens up enormous possibilities, allowing for incredibly quick parallel
and simultaneous calculations. Quantum physics states that merely looking at the system changes its
characteristics. This property is widely used in developing protocols for secured communication. One of
the remarkable achievements is the quantum-protected encryption keys to improve communication
security. For entangled systems, If one changes the attributes of one of the systems, the other correlated
system changes as well. Entangled systems can be used to identify whether data transmission has been
tampered with, and is the resource for most of the information-theoretic tasks.

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The Webinar will feature an expert talk from  Mr. Madhavan Venkatesh, Research scholar from IIT-Kanpur at 11 AM (IST).

The talk will be focused on the topic of Post Quantum Cryptography. This webinar targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, practitioners, research scholars, and technology officers to students and general quantum enthusiasts.

Please join the webinar using the below-mentioned link.

https://meet.google.com/atr-cdwm-mgq

The Webinar will feature an expert talk from Dr. Natarajan, SETS Chennai at 10 AM (IST).

Duration: 2 Hours

This talk will focus on quantum randomness’s fundamental principles and applications in quantum computing and communication systems. Further, it provides simpler interpretations of how this leads to the design of protocols of quantum origin, certified randomness, and verification of quantum computations. Also, this talk describes refinements of these techniques for improving the efficiency of the protocols.

Please join the webinar using the below-mentioned link.

https://ieee.webex.com/ieee/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee23aa5d0826dcc52dfa23582dd9c428b

The Workshop features expert talks from quantum researchers and practitioners, exclusive hands-on, case studies and tools, and first-hand experience with educative lab walkthroughs. This Workshop targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, senior managers, decision-makers, research scholars, and technology officers to general quantum enthusiasts.

Brochure.

The Workshop features expert talks from quantum researchers and practitioners, exclusive hands-on, case studies and tools, and first-hand experience with educative lab walkthroughs. This Workshop targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, senior managers, decision-makers, research scholars, and technology officers to general quantum enthusiasts.

Brochure | Watch webinar by Prof. Amlan Chakrabarti

The Workshop features expert talks from quantum researchers and practitioners, exclusive hands-on, case studies and tools, and first-hand experience with educative lab walkthroughs. This Workshop targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, senior managers, decision-makers, research scholars, and technology officers to general quantum enthusiasts.

Brochure. | Watch talk by Prof. Apoorva Patel, IISc Bangalore 

The Workshop features expert talks from quantum researchers and practitioners, exclusive hands-on, case studies and tools, and first-hand experience with educative lab walkthroughs. This Workshop targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, senior managers, decision-makers, research scholars, and technology officers to general quantum enthusiasts.

Brochure.

Visit: https://setsindia.in/pqcwebinar

The objective of the webinar is to explore the possibilities of practical quantum communication systems design and deployment on a broader scale. Also it aims to provide an insight into quantum networks from an engineering perspective and be familiar with experimental realization, functioning and overall network operations.

Overall, the workshop motivates academic and industry research communities to design a commercial quantum systems.

What are qubits, gating operations, and quantum circuits.

• Python programming for quantum hardware
• How to perform gating operations on qubits
• How to construct and run quantum circuits on actual quantum hardware
• How to apply QKD and quantum communication applications in cryptography and security
• Familiarity with quantum computing and applications of quantum algorithms
• Using the indigenous simulator to perform noisy simulations.

A basic familiarity with linear algebra and python programming will be helpful, although not required.

This course aims to provide exposure to Qiskit,  Quantum programming framework and IBMQ.

More information about the event can be found here.

More information about the event can be found here.

The Workshop features expert talks from quantum researchers and practitioners, exclusive hands-on, case studies and tools, and first-hand experience with educative lab walkthroughs. This Workshop targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, senior managers, decision-makers, research scholars, and technology officers to general quantum enthusiasts.

Brochure.

The Workshop features expert talks from quantum researchers and practitioners, exclusive hands-on, case studies and tools, and first-hand experience with educative lab walkthroughs. This Workshop targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, senior managers, decision-makers, research scholars, and technology officers to general quantum enthusiasts.

Brochure | Watch webinar by Prof. Amlan Chakrabarti

The Workshop features expert talks from quantum researchers and practitioners, exclusive hands-on, case studies and tools, and first-hand experience with educative lab walkthroughs. This Workshop targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, senior managers, decision-makers, research scholars, and technology officers to general quantum enthusiasts.

Brochure. | Watch talk by Prof. Apoorva Patel, IISc Bangalore 

The Workshop features expert talks from quantum researchers and practitioners, exclusive hands-on, case studies and tools, and first-hand experience with educative lab walkthroughs. This Workshop targets a wide array of participants ranging from scientists, senior managers, decision-makers, research scholars, and technology officers to general quantum enthusiasts.

Brochure.

Visit: https://setsindia.in/pqcwebinar

The objective of the webinar is to explore the possibilities of practical quantum communication systems design and deployment on a broader scale. Also it aims to provide an insight into quantum networks from an engineering perspective and be familiar with experimental realization, functioning and overall network operations.

Overall, the workshop motivates academic and industry research communities to design a commercial quantum systems.

What are qubits, gating operations, and quantum circuits.

• Python programming for quantum hardware
• How to perform gating operations on qubits
• How to construct and run quantum circuits on actual quantum hardware
• How to apply QKD and quantum communication applications in cryptography and security
• Familiarity with quantum computing and applications of quantum algorithms
• Using the indigenous simulator to perform noisy simulations.

A basic familiarity with linear algebra and python programming will be helpful, although not required.

This course aims to provide exposure to Qiskit,  Quantum programming framework and IBMQ.

More information about the event can be found here.

More information about the event can be found here.