NYUAD Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World: Focusing on Quantum Computing (QC)

https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/events/2022/march/nyuad-hackathon-event.html

March 30 - April 1, 2022

Technical challenge

Create a program that applies one or more quantum algorithms to a social good problem of your choice.

Quantum algorithm examples:

• Shor's algorithm
• Grover's search
• Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE)
• Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA)

Social good topic examples:

• Healthcare
• Science (e.g. AI, cryptography, biochemistry)
• Environment (climate)
• Education & Literacy
• Food Securities
• Crisis & Public Safety
• Financial Modeling
• Gaming

Implementation requirements:

• Must utilize quantum hardware available through preferably IBM. However, we set also have AWS devices available as well.
• You are also free to use any technology which allows you to solve the challenge.

Bonus requirements:

• Incorporate noisy simulation through IBM
• Incorporate a hybrid quantum-classical task through IBM

qBraid Tutorials

Here, we provide useful tutorials on how to use qBraid-Lab, along with tutorials on quantum computing, using IBM or Amazon Braket. The ladder were provided by the qiskit-tutorials and the amazon-braket-examples github repositories repsectively.

The repository is structured as follows:

• Setting up Qiskit environment

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Setting up Qiskit environment in qBraid

• Install Qiskit in qBraid-Lab

• Enable Qiskit QPU access through qBraid-CLI

• Example environent setup on qBraid Youtube video (Please use the code EHNU6626)

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