{"id":1371,"date":"2026-09-05T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:35:29","slug":"summer-school-on-quantum-algorithms-and-quantum-error-correction-at-cwi-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/summer-school-on-quantum-algorithms-and-quantum-error-correction-at-cwi-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer School on Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Error Correction at CWI Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, during my vacation, I attended a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwi.nl\/en\/events\/research-semester-programmes\/summer-school-on-qa-and-qec\/\">research summer school in Amsterdam on QA and QEC.<\/a> I found it quite interesting and informative. One main takeaway was the characterisation of a quantum computer as <em>\"a machine that most of the time performs quantum error correction and then a little bit of computation\"<\/em>. Even if crypto-relevant quantum computers somehow never see the light of day, the mathematics involved is already quite interesting to me: primarily the construction of good quantum error-correcting codes, recent advances in quantum algorithm design via span programs, and the development of Quantum Linear Algebra and its applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style3 like-1371 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='1371' data-nonce='140bbf8a70' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-1371 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style3 unlike-1371 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='1371' data-nonce='140bbf8a70' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-1371 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-1371 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, during my vacation, I attended a research summer school in Amsterdam on QA and QEC. I found it quite interesting and informative. One main takeaway was the characterisation of a quantum computer as \"a machine that most of the time performs quantum error correction and then a little bit of computation\". Even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konrad.burnik.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}