Qiskit Fall Fest UFPE 2023

In this hybrid extension event in partnership with IBM and CIn - UFPE, a group of friends and I realized a 3-day workshop introducing Qiskit for more than 50 students of diverse areas of technology.

Organizers

• Bento Montenegro (Qiskit Advocate, Graduate student - DF UFPE)

• Thiago Melo (Graduate student - CIn UFPE)

• Ismael Araújo (Graduate student, CIn UFPE)

• Jefferson Silva (Graduate student, CIn UFPE)

• Alex de Carvalho (Undergraduate student, CIn UFPE)

• Adenilton Silva (Professor - CIn UFPE)

Here I introduced state vectors, bits and qubits, entanglement, Bloch sphere and future prospects of quantum computing. After that, the participants were encouraged to work on theoretical exercises involving those concepts alongside with Thiago.

In the second day, Ismael introduced the basics of quantum circuits, gates and unitary operations. With assistance of the organizers, students were encouraged to construct their very first quantum circuits using Qiskit, including the famous Bell circuits.

Finally, in the third day of event, Jefferson introduced the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol in detail and also commented the basic features of Shor and Grover's algorithms. With the assistance of Alex, the participants were given challenge notebooks to understand how QKD may be implemented with Qiskit.