Hans von Baeyer
Eric R Johnston
Sarah C Kaiser
Daniel Koch
Mariia Mykhailova
William D Oliver
Gerardo Ortiz
Amr Sabry
James Weaver
Organizers:
Mariia Mykhailova is a software engineer with Microsoft
Quantum Redmond (in the the QuArC group) and a most outstanding individual.
Her Twitter handle is tcNickolas. At the drop of a hat she joined us for a great presentation of Q# and quantum katas
over Zoom in our semi-virtual workshop at SIGCSE 2020. Thanks, Mariia! Thanks also to Mark Tsang,
her manager, for his always supportive and friendly nature. Mariia along with Mark and with Sarah C. Kaiser's co-author, Chris Granade, were scheduled to hold a much-anticipated
workshop the day of our event, only a bit later
in the evening. However Microsoft decided to self-quarantine in Redmond and the workshop was
canceled. Mariia had a presentation scheduled for Thu Mar 12 3:00pm-3:45pm in Exhibit Hall
E but that presentation was also canceled. However, you can listen to it as part of our pre-symposium event in the videos page due to Mariia's generously accepting our last minute
invitation! There were two more presentations in the SIGCSE 2020 schedule on the topic of quantum computing (which brings them to
a grand
total of five): a very interesting poster (on Learning
Trajectories for K-12 Quantum Computing, from U of Chicago and UC Santa Barbara, scheduled for Fri @3pm in Exhibit Hall E) and
a video presentation by Mariia Mykhailova and Krysta M. Svore
(scheduled for Sat Mar 14 @11:35am-12noon in D135). But following
an announcement
of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
late Wednesday night the conference was promptly canceled the very next morning.