A fourth edition of AlgoLab’s Open House event

For the fourth consecutive year, Institut quantique’s (IQ) AlgoLab held its Open House event on November 29, providing an overview of the platform’s projects and initiatives.

Ghislain Lefebvre, Chief partnerships officer at IQ, kicked off the day with a review of the new agreement between Institut quantique and le Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie (MEIE) du Québec. He outlined the various AlgoLab and Curieux quantiques initiatives, notably the scientific outreach and training efforts of recent years to help bolster interest and introduce companies and the next generation to the growing opportunities offered by quantum technology.

“The Open House event has become one of AlgoLab’s key events of the year, explains Ghislain Lefebvre. It’s a great way to showcase a range of our research projects and scientific collaborations with our partners, while demonstrating the scope of our initiatives in Quebec’s quantum ecosystem.”

The morning session continued with four research project presentations, including the Thales project with Professor Soumaya Cherkaoui, from Polytechnique Montréal; Greene’s function with Peter Rosenberg, Postdoctoral fellow at IQ; the project of French start-up Pasqal with Victor Drouin-Touchette, Research coordinator at UdeS; and an AlgoLab project on Pauli chains presented by Maxime Dion, Quantum computing developer at IQ.

The event also provided an opportunity for students to present their internship projects in quantum computing with the AlgoLab, including Mathis Beaudoin and Juan David Restrepo.

“I’m happy to have had the chance to share my internship experience at AlgoLab during this Open House event. There are a lot of opportunities developing in the field of quantum computing, and this event is testament to that,” admits Mathis Beaudoin, a student at the Université de Sherbrooke and former AlgoLab intern.

The day’s program continued with Ed Chen, Research staff scientist at IBM Quantum, giving a technical seminar on Nishimori transitions and quantum chemistry simulations on IBM quantum systems.

The AlgoLab team also offered workshops to the community, one an introduction to quantum computing open to the public, and the other on Grover’s algorithm. Students from the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS) as well as people from Quebec’s quantum ecosystem were on hand to attend the training sessions.

In all, more than 110 people took advantage of the day in the company of the AlgoLab team.