Summer school on quantum computing and information 2024



After the 1st edition, the 2024 EIT Digital One week Summer school is scheduled from June 16 to 21, 2024. It will be located in Nice, and we welcome attendees to take opportunity to enjoy Nice and its area.

Detailed program

Practical information


Registration and Welcome cocktail Sunday 16 of June, early evening

Hotel Mercure Notre Dame
Rooftop
28  Avenue Notre Dame
06 000 Nice
https://all.accor.com/hotel/1291/index.fr.shtml#section-location

Tramway line 1, stop Jean Medecin

Public non free  parking Avenue Notre Dame (facing the hotel), 06 000 Nice

Tapas, drinks will be offered. Be there around 6pm, then you will leave to have dinner on your own from 7:30 / 8pm
Important : we will deliver to each of the students a Tramway pass (illimited use on Lignes d'Azur transport network) for the whole school duration and even more (7 days pass, counted from the first time the pass is used). 

Main location for lectures scheduled from Monday June 17, 8:30 AM until Friday 21st of June 6 PM is 

Campus Of Science and Engineering, Main University Campus "Valrose" 
28 av Valrose, 06100 Nice
  
Theater room of the Grand Château , or room C22 in the Chimie (chemistry) building

Campus Valrose - Université Côte d'Azur (univ-cotedazur.fr)

 

For any other practical question, feel free to contact the school logistics responsible person:

Nathalie.HAILLY@univ-cotedazur.fr
Tel:  (+33) (0)4 89 15 41 76
or
Francoise.Baude@univ-cotedazur.fr
 

 

Social event:

Wednesday 19th of June late afternoon and evening.

The restaurant booked for the social dinner from 8pm is L'Union, in Nice. Typical regional food.

Brasserie Restaurant l'UNION
1 rue Michelet
06100 Nice
Tel: (+33) (0)4 93 846 527  
https://goo.gl/maps/fWp7kDRYbJvEHBgr9
Tram line 1,  stop: Valrose

 Program
latest update: June 21,  2024

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Sunday 16 (Rooftop of Hotel Mercure Notre Dame)
18:00 - 18h30 Welcome
18h30 : Introduction by the organizers
Françoise Baude, Université Côte d'Azur
Virginia D'Auria, Université Côte d'Azur
Ramon Aparicio-Pardo, Université Côte d'Azur
Team building
20:00 End of Day 1

Monday 17 (Campus Valrose, Theater)
8:30 [Keynote] Overview of Quantum technologies.
David Shaw, Global Quantum Intelligence
10:00 Coffee break, Grand Château
10:30 [Lecture] Quantum formalism, Part 1
Bruno Fedrici

12:00 Lunch break, Salle à Manger, Grand Château

13:30 [Lecture] Quantum formalism, Part 2
Bruno Fedrici
15:00 Coffee break, Grand Château
15:30 [Workshop] Programming a Quantum Computer
Bruno Fedrici
18:00 Group work
19:00 end of Day 2

Tuesday 18 (Campus Valrose)
8:30 [Keynote] Investing in Quantum Technologies: a private sector viewpoint
Pauline Boucher, Quantonation
9:15 [Keynote] Investing in Quantum Technologies: a public sector viewpoint
Samira NIK, European Innovation Council (online talk)
10:30 [Live Q&A] Entrepreneurship in Quantum Technologies
Annick Gingras-Genois, Quobly 
Marina Xech-Gaspa, Quandela
11:00 Coffee break, Grand Château
11:30 [Live Q&A] Entrepreneurship in Quantum Technologies, continued

12:45 Lunch break, Salle à Manger, Grand Château

14:00  [Lecture] Introduction to Quantum Optimization
Bruno Fedrici
15:30 Coffee break, Grand Château
16:00 [Workshop] Quantum Optimization
Bruno Fedrici
18:00 Group work
19:00 end of Day 3

Wednesday 19(Campus Valrose)
8:30 [Lecture] Introduction to Quantum Machine Learning
Bruno Fedrici
10:00 Coffee break, Grand Château
10:30 Group work, or the Quantum machine learning workshop part 1
12:00 Salle à Manger, Grand Château

13:30 [Workshop] Quantum Machine Learning (part 2)
Bruno Fedrici
16:00 Departure for the social event
Guided tour of Nice old town


Thursday 20(Campus Valrose)
8:30 [Keynote] Post-Quantum Cryptography 
Ludovic Perret, Sorbonne Université
10:00 Coffee break, Grand Château
10:30 [Lecture] Quantum Keys Distribution 
Olivier Alibart, Université Côte d'Azur

12:00 Salle à Manger, Grand Château

13:30 [Lecture] Quantum Networks
Djeylan Aktas, Slovak Academy of Sciences
15:30 Coffee break, Grand Château
16:00 Group work
19:00 end of Day 5

Friday 21 (Campus Valrose)
8:30 [Keynote] Careers in Quantum Technologies 
Oxana Mishina, CNR-INO c/o UniTS
9:30 [Q & A ] Real world use cases for QC 
Industrial sectors (energy, automotive, finance, etc) testimonies
Davide Corbelletto, Intesa Sanpaolo
10:30 Coffee break, Grand Château
11:00  [Live Q&A] Legal framework for Quantum Techologies 
Marina Teller, Université Côte d'Azur
12:00 Salle à Manger, Grand Château

13:30  Students presentations in groups
16:00 Feedback questionnaire  and Conclusive remarks
          Use this link : FEEDBACK QUESTIONNAIRE
17:30 End of the Summer school