Nuevo curso online de la alianza GISU: Quantum Computing for Sustainable Development

Next Academy program, “Quantum Computing for Sustainable Development” will be offered April 25 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Beijing Time) by Professor Francesco Petruccione from Stellenbosch University.

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Program description and faculty member biography:

In recent years, quantum computing has emerged as a powerful technology that may help us achieve some of the goals of the fourth Industrial revolution. However, current quantum computers, such as Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers, still face significant noise and error correction challenges, which must be overcome to fully leverage their potential. In this presentation, basic ideas and concepts behind quantum computing will be introduced with an overview of the available quantum algorithms and their potential to address some of the challenges of the sustainable development goals. Discussion will also include the importance of developing a workforce with the necessary skills to advance quantum computing for sustainable development. Join us to learn how quantum computing can help us build a more sustainable future.

Francesco Petruccione studied Physics at the University of Freiburg i. Br. and received his PhD in 1988 and the “Habilitation” degree (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) in 1994. In 2004 he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), in Durban (South Africa). In 2007 he was granted the South African Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication. At UKZN he has been Pro-Vice-Chancellor Big Data and Informatics. Currently, he is the interim Director of the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences and (since May 2022) a Professor of Quantum Computing at Stellenbosch University and a fractional Professor at UKZN. 

Professor Petruccione is an elected member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, of the African Academy of Sciences and of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has published more than 250 papers in refereed scientific journals. He is the co-author of a monograph on “The Theory of Open Quantum Systems " (more than 10,000 citations according to Google Scholar), that was published in 2002, reprinted as paperback in 2007, and translated in Russian. In 2018 he published a monograph (with Maria Schuld) on "Supervised Learning with Quantum Computers” that was already translated into Japanese. The second extended edition was published in 2021 under the title “Machine Learning with Quantum Computers” . He is the editor of several proceedings volumes and of special editions of scientific journals. Professor  Petruccione is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals "Open Systems and Information Dynamics", "Scientific Reports", and "Quantum Machine Intelligence”.