BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:684081cd462e6 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200203T143000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200203T143000 URL:/institute-for-quantum-computing/events/variational -quantum-algorithms-obstacles-and-opportunities SUMMARY:Variational quantum algorithms: obstacles and opportunities CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nCOLLOQUIUM FEATURING SERGEY BRAVYI IBM RESEARCH\n\n Variational quantum algorithms such as VQE or QAOA aim to simulate\nlow-en ergy properties of quantum many-body systems or find approximate\nsolution s of combinatorial optimization problems. Such algorithms\nemploy variatio nal states generated by low-depth quantum circuits to\nminimize the expect ed value of a quantum or classical Hamiltonian.\n DTSTAMP:20250604T172637Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR