Our next speaker will be Nick Bronn from IBM. He'll be talking about

Simulating Quantum Dynamics using Programmable Quantum Computers

Abstract

Simulating quantum dynamics was the foundational motivation for building quantum computers, & is also a practically relevant challenge. Quantum simulation helps us understand both the problem being solved & the quantum device doing the simulation. In this presentation, I will discuss the considerations of mapping simulation problems to quantum computers, the algorithms for performing the simulations, & the relevance such solutions would have on life today. This will be an abridged version of the course at the US Quantum Information Science summer school I gave at Oak Ridge National Lab in July 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=982INjokyrk).

Nick Brnn is a Quantum Algorithm Engineer at IBM Quantum in the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. After earning his Ph.D. in experimental Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Illinois, supported in part by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Nick joined IBM Quantum as a post-doctoral researcher in 2013. Continuing as a Research Staff Member since 2015, he was responsible for developing & integrating quantum hardware, conducting experiments on superconducting qubits & deploying quantum systems over the cloud. Changing roles in 2020 to use open source software such as Qiskit to conduct "experiments" on quantum computing platforms, he now enables quantum computing practitioners to achieve the highest performance from IBM quantum systems through hands-on guidance of their partners, digital content creation such as videos, tutorials, & documentation, & publishing peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature with collaborators in academia & national laboratories.