We’re pleased to announce that the start date of our free 12-week online course Quantum Formalism will be Friday, September 18th. The course has two tracks:
Track 1: Aimed at helping scientists & software engineers working in the industry that are interested in getting into quantum computing, but that have a limited relevant mathematical background. We hope that mathematics will provide a shortcut to those interested in quantum software & algorithms without needing to have a PhD in quantum physics! :)
Track 2: Aimed at those professionals who are already working in quantum computing and would like to be exposed to more advanced mathematical topics that are normally only accessible to mathematical physicists. We’re talking about topics like C*-Algebras & Operator Theory, Lie Groups & Lie Algebras etc.
In general, we believe that re-skilling the existing industry software engineering workforce should indeed be part of the strategy to accelerate the development of a global quantum economy for the NISQ era and beyond. There are many examples of why this is so important, including:
- Having a large enough pool of skilled quantum software engineers would help new quantum software startups across industries access industry-ready quantum engineering talent. Currently, a lot of quantum computing talent are coming from the already drained academia. However, from our own experience, often these academics lack the industry experience in terms of high quality software engineering standards.
- Big tech such as; Google, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon are leveraging their deep pockets to heavily recruit quantum talent from academia or engaged in poaching from startups, hence making it much harder for new entrants to access talent.
Batch I Size
For this first pilot batch, we’ve capped the numbers to 100 students for the live lectures and tried our best to select people from diverse backgrounds across the US & Europe. However, we’re open to expanding the number of students as needed to admit more women and people of colour. The lectures will also be recorded and made available on our YouTube Channel.
Some of our registered students are already taking part in IBM’s quantum computation summer school called ‘ 2020 Qiskit Global Summer School’.
Batch I Partnership
In our recent internal pre-course research, we’ve found that 15% would like to start a quantum startup or join one as an early employee! So we are looking to partner with incubators and quantum startups in order to create pilot pathways for those promising potential quantum founders & early startup employees.
Interested partners, please fill out this google form so we can follow up with you: https://forms.gle/nrvhidVRjU1maQFH6
In the future, we may consider starting a consortium of global incubators working together rather than competing with each other so that we can help to create the next-generation of deep-tech companies that will create a better world for all of us.
Thanks for reading! We’ll keep you posted :)
Originally published at https://zaiku.substack.com.
