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Events During the Week of September 11th through September 18th, 2016

Monday, September 12th, 2016

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Tuesday, September 13th, 2016

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Wednesday, September 14th, 2016

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Thursday, September 15th, 2016

Quantum annealing--advantages and pitfalls
Time: 10:00 am
Place: 5310 Chamberlin
Speaker: Hari Krovi, BBN Technologies
Abstract:
We will review the framework of quantum annealing and quantum adiabatic algorithms. We will describe the evidence that they give speed-ups over classical algorithms for optimization problems and the need for non-stoquasticity in the Hamiltonian. We also present some negative results showing evidence that they do not give an exponential speed-up over classical algorithms for these problems. Finally, we present some recent work on constructing annealing algorithms with non-stoquastic terms.
Host: Vavilov
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Friday, September 16th, 2016

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