Instructors: Makrand Sinha (msinha@illinois.edu) and Fernando Granha Jeronimo (granha@illinois.edu)
Credits: 4
TA: Yuchen Pang (yuchenp2@illinois.edu)
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30 - 10:45 am
Location: 1304 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Office Hours: Fernando (Thursdays 10:45am-noon in Siebel 4336 or by appointment), Yuchen (Tuesdays 1-2pm in Siebel basement)
Lecture Recordings: Mediaspace (UIUC restricted)
Discussion Forum: Ed Discussion. You will automatically be enrolled the day before the first day of the instruction (the first day of instruction is January 21st) on your @illinois.edu email. All course announcenments, policies, discussions and homeworks will be available only on Ed Discussion. Instead of sending emails, students are encouraged to send direct messages to the course staff via the chat feature on Ed Discussion.
Homework Submission: Gradescope. You will automatically be enrolled the day before the first day of the instruction (the first day of instruction is Jaunary 21st) on your @illinois.edu email.
This course aims to introduce the principles of quantum computing, laying a solid foundation for further advanced courses or research in quantum information. We will tentatively cover the following topics:
This course will take a theoretical computer science perspective on quantum computing. A background in quantum physics is not required, although it can be helpful.
This will be a challenging theory course and a solid understanding of linear algebra, discrete math, probability theory, and algorithms and models of computation is important. In particular, a good background and comfort in the topics covered in CS 374 will be assumed.