IEEE Quantum Week 2024
LOCATION
Palais des Congrès, Montréal, Québec, Canada
WHEN
15–20 Sept 2024
Jamie Friel
COMPILER TEAM MANAGER
Jamie is responsible for building software solutions that will help build a quantum future. In particular building a bespoke quantum compiler that will allow groundbreaking problems to be solved on OQC’s hardware. Before joining OQC, Jamie worked as a software developer for a grid battery company, part of the UK’s national grid goal to bring greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
Harry Waring
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
As a software engineer at OQC, Harry is dedicated to developing a range of outstanding, cutting-edge software solutions for quantum computing applications, and is currently supporting access to OQC’s quantum resources through the development of our Quantum Computing as a Service platform. Harry joined OQC after finishing his PhD and a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Manchester in a magnetic nanotechnology/spintronics based field.
EVENT DETAILS
IEEE Quantum Week — the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) — is bridging the gap between the science of quantum computing and the development of an industry surrounding it. As such, this event brings a perspective to the quantum industry different from academic or business conferences.
IEEE Quantum Week is a multidisciplinary quantum computing and engineering venue that gives attendees the unique opportunity to discuss challenges and opportunities with quantum researchers, scientists, software engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, practitioners, educators, programmers, and newcomers.
SESSION DETAILS
OQC’s Compiler Team Manager, Jamie Friel, will be speaking at the ‘Pulse-Level Languages, Interfaces and Intermediate Representations’ workshop at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024. The workshop will be taking place on Sunday 15th September 2024, with final details on location and time coming soon.
Title: How might quantum compilers better support pulse level quantum computing?
Abstract: Quantum compilation faces many challenges that traditional compilers do not, equally there’s a lot we can learn from and directly leverage from existing traditional compilers. In particular, quantum computation has a richer underlying physics that we are able to exploit for computation beyond a purely logical conceptual model, when compared to classical computing. A growing challenge within the quantum computing community is how we best support the full power of various different quantum computing modalities in a cross-platform way, in order to enable open exploration of quantum algorithms and runtimes with minimal overhead to the user. In this workshop we’ll take a look through quantum compilation, how we currently support these challenges and how we might be able to work better collectively towards these aims.
OQC POSTER SESSION
Our Software Engineer, Harry Waring, has submitted a poster to the IEEE Quantum Week Posters program, entitled ‘Distributing Compilation to Enable High Throughput Scalable Quantum Workloads’, which will be displayed on site during the event.
Harry will be onsite during the event and will be presenting his poster on Monday 16th September at 6:30pm, Tuesday 17th September at 2:30pm and Wednesday 18th September at 11:30am.
IEEE SPECTRUM ARTICLE
In IEEE’s recent article, our Director of Hardware Engineering, Jonathan Burnett, and Compiler Team Manager, Jamie Friel, discuss how we tackled quantum hardware and software engineering challenges in data centres.
