On April 13th, 2024, the Yale Quantum Institute kicked off the first edition of YQuantum, bringing together thinkers and innovators from across the world to solve tomorrow’s most pressing quantum challenges.
YQuantum 2024 fielded 300 registrants from 10 countries, featuring students from 32 universities around the world. Out of the registrants, the attendees formed 36 teams to work on 6 challenges set by industry sponsors.
The two-day schedule blended workshops and lab tours with networking opportunities for the participants, allowing them to work on their projects while benefiting from Yale’s extensive resources in quantum information science and quantum engineering.
8:00a Registration and breakfast
9:00a Quantum computing workshops
12:00p Hacking commences
1:00p Lunch
2:00p Tours of Yale Quantum Institute labs
6:00p Dinner
8:00p Night Hack begins
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
Sunday, April 14th, 2024
Celebrate World Quantum Day, 2024!
8:00a Breakfast
12:00p Hacking ends
12:30p Lunch
1:30p Presentations and Judging
3:00p Closing Keynote // Prof. Steve Girvin
4:00p Awards
WINNING TEAMS
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WINNING TEAMS •
THE YALE QUANTUM INSTITUTE GRAND PRIZES
Sponsored by DoraHacks
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Quantum Consortium
Caden Kacmarynski, Xavier Moskala, Adrian Harkness, Dmitrii Khitrin, David Nizovsky
$2,000 + Yale Innovation Summit Presentation opportunity, exclusive Quantum Sound vinyl.
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The Unitary Operators
Dale Jacobs, Randy Dang, Mateusz Zubrzycki, Daniel Harrington, Shariq Rifai
$1,000 + Yale Innovation Summit Presentation opportunity, exclusive Quantum Sound vinyl.
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Qubruin
Zhuoyang Ye, Qiyu Liu, Manvi Agrawal, Changsoo Kim, Haochen Wang
$500 + Yale Innovation Summit Presentation opportunity, exclusive Quantum Sound vinyl.
INDIVIDUAL TRACK PRIZES
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Quantum Nexus
Bryanna Boroze, Shees Siddiqy, Jack Angelastro
IBM Quantum swag pack and presentation opportunity, with Qiskit Advocate opportunity.
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RabiFlops
Kenneth Kohn, Andrii Torchylo, Sam Jett, Dhruv Mangtani, Boxin Zhang
QuEra swag pack, public QuEra blog post, speaking opportunity @ QuEra HQ.
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Wavefunction Wizards
Jose Zamora Orellana, Maximilian Rieger, Thomas Greenleaf, Aniruddha Sen
Quantum cloud credits ($1500) to be redeemed on any quantum hardware, public Classiq blog post.
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Spooners
Siddarth Chava, Siji Doherty, Shrey Khater, Aditi Baghel, Akshat Rakheja
$300 USDC. DI-QRNG Product Research and Development internship, Post-Quantum Blockchain Cryptography Research internship.
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skittlez
Eileen Rashduni, Tanusri Ramakrishnan, Jesus Fileto, Danny Assi, Pradyun Solai
Summer internship at Capgemini's Quantum Lab to develop project further, presentation for Capgemini Financial Services.
Honorable mention: BB24 (Jennifer Fomenko, Pravin Mahendran, Priyam Gupta, Sahana Ganesh, Kharissa Moore)
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Quantum Quails
Sanskriti Shindadkar, Khaled Khan, Maksym Tymchyshyn, Kunal Lalwani, Richa Yadav
SandboxAQ swag pack, presentation opportunity @ SandboxAQ HQ, career connections and networking with staff.
Honorable Mention: Huskies (Shannen Espinosa, Siona Tagare, Gun Suer)
YQuantum 2024 featured six exciting challenges ranging from condensed matter physics to quantum applications in healthcare and finance. Here’s what the participants built over the weekend.
IBM Quantum
Utilize the recently-discovered technology of dynamic circuits to leverage more efficient quantum error correction.
DoraHacks Quantum
Build a classifier to separate quantum-generated random numbers from pseudo random numbers to strengthen cryptographic protocols.
QuEra Computing
Investigate the phenomenon of quantum many-body scars, and devise an experimental protocol that improves results.
Capgemini // Quantinuum // Hartford
Build a quantum-enhanced Monte Carlo Markov Chain algorithm and apply it to risk estimation and pricing models within finance.
Classiq Technologies
Develop alternate quantum algorithm formulations to develop quantum sparse states more efficiently, developing speedups.
SandboxAQ
Build a computational biology pipeline using the quantum chemistry workflow Tangelo to speed up an aspect of molecular analysis.
