Keynote Speakers:

Hans von Baeyer
Eric R Johnston
Sarah C Kaiser
Daniel Koch
Mariia Mykhailova
William D Oliver
Gerardo Ortiz
Amr Sabry
James Weaver

Organizers:

Memo Dalkilic
Adrian German
Mike Loukides

Daniel Koch is currently a Research Potsdoc with the Air Force Research Laboratory. Together with Laura Wessing and Paul M. Alsing he has co-authored and maintains an exceptionally well organized Qiskit tutorial (along with a corresponding Pyquil version). His Qiskit tutorial rivals the official Qiskit Textbook in clarity and depth of presentation and was posted several months in advance. In December 2019 Daniel presented at the 2019 Q2B Conference (where the picture was taken, by James Weaver). His presentation followed in the program that of Prof. Umesh Vazirani. The title of Daniel's Q2B 2019 presentation was: "Benchmarking Experiments on IBM's 20-Qubit Poughkeepsie". Daniel has a Physics degree (2014) from San Jose State University and a PhD in Physics (Thesis: Quantum Search using Quantum Random Walks) from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (2018). He has a long-standing interest (and significant experience) in teaching advanced concepts (including topics in quantum computation) to high-school students. For our event he will introduce Qiskit, he will contrast and compare it with Pyquil (Rigetti) and will lead an interactive introductory session with the audience. He will take questions, give general curriculum advice based on his experience and also describe his plans for a second, more advanced tutorial (currently in preparation).