CO 481/CS 467/PHYS 467: Introduction to quantum information processing (University of Waterloo, Winter 2012)

Course Outline

Announcements

• Apr 23: Course projects have been evaluated and are ready to be picked up. There will be scheduled pickup times at MC 4031 from 2–3 pm on Wednesday, April 25, and from 1–2 pm on Friday, April 27. If you are not available then, feel free to drop by at another time, but you may wish to make an appointment as I am often at IQC.
• Mar 26: As a reminder, your course project is due on the day of the last lecture (Thursday, March 29, 11:59 pm) and should be submitted as a PDF file sent by email to amchilds@uwaterloo.ca.
• Mar 15: We will have a lab tour at the Institute for Quantum Computing at our usual lecture time on Thursday, March 22. Please meet a few minutes before 10 am in room 2009 of the RAC building. RAC is located at 475 Wes Graham Way and can be found on the campus map (scroll up from the default view to find it). This is about a ten-minute walk northwest of the main campus. To get there, cross Columbia Street and walk north on Hagey Boulevard; at the second roundabout, turn left on Wes Graham Way and walk to the end of the street. RAC is the first of two identical buildings on the cul-de-sac, with a sign indicating the Institute for Quantum Computing. RAC 2009 is a large seminar room on the east side of the building on the second floor. We have an assignment due that day, so please hand in your assignment at the start of the lab tour.
• Mar 7: On assignment 4, problem 3c, you should show how to learn m with probability 1−1/p, not with certainty. Also, on problem 5, the domain of f should be {1, 2, …, N}.
• Feb 27: Maris’s office hour on Wednesday, Feb 29 will be held by Marcin and Michał Kotowski in the usual location (MC 5136A).
• Feb 22: Midterm solutions are now available.
• Feb 13: Maris’s office hour on Wednesday, Feb 15 will be held by Laura Mancinska (a previous CO 481 TA) in the usual location (MC 5136A).
• Feb 12: During the midterm week, Andrew’s Friday office hour will be moved to Thursday. He will have an office hour on Thursday, Feb 16, from 12:30–1:30 pm, and he will not have an office hour on Friday, Feb 17. Regularly scheduled office hours will resume the following week (office hours will continue to be held during the reading week).
• Feb 12: The midterms from 2010 and 2011 are available to give you a sense of what to expect on the midterm, and as sources of practice problems. (Note that question 1 on the 2011 midterm is on material we have not yet covered.)
• Feb 8: On problem 5 of assignment 3, P should be the operation that adds 1 modulo N (not modulo 2ⁿ).
• Feb 2: The midterm will be held in MC 1085 on Thursday, Feb 16, from 4:30–6:20 pm.
• Jan 27: Information about the course project has been posted.
• Jan 24: Andrew’s office hour on Jan 25 will run from 2–2:40 pm. He will also be available in MC 4031 earlier that day (although you are encouraged to send email if you plan to come by at another time).
• Jan 11: Andrew will not have office hours on Jan 18 or 20. Please use Ben and Maris’s office hours and/or send questions to Andrew by email during this time.
• Jan 6: Additional copies of the course textbooks have been placed on reserve in the Davis Center Library. There are now three copies of Kaye-Laflamme-Mosca (with two copies under call number 1493) and two copies of Nielsen and Chuang (with one copy under call number 1488).
• Jan 5: A revised course outline with a complete list of office hours has been posted.

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