Join us for the OneQuantum Africa meeting this Wednesday, 13 Jan at 1500hrs SAST
Newsletter 1/2021
Updates and ideas
Compliments of the New Year!
Welcome to the invite for our weekly OneQuantum Africa meetings to network, collaborate, and exchange ideas.
To start the year, we discuss the academic growth journey and the importance of networking in quantum tech to be led by Rishi Sreedhar. Rishi is a bachelor's graduate from IIT Guwahati, India, where he majored in Electronics and Electrical Engineering and is currently a Research Assistant at the Chalmers University of Technology. He works on modeling Quantum Circuits using Tensor Networks and will share his journey transitioning from engineering to biophysics, nanoscience, and now quantum computing and how he leveraged his global network to move from India through Belgium to Sweden.
We are moving our meetings from Google Meet to Run The World to make it easy in terms of RSVPing, recordings, replays, groupfies, insights, and cocktails, and you need to RSVP herehttps://www.runtheworld.today/app/invitation/15284 to reserve your spot at our next meeting on the 13th of January (this coming Wednesday).
OneQuantum Africa Weekly Meeting | Run The World.
Download the mobile app (Run The World - Apps on Google Play, Run The World: Virtual Events on the App Store (apple.com), and if you are going to join the meeting from a PC, Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
Please invite all your quantum tech colleagues from the continent.
News
Check out our new website here and sign up to become an official member of OneQuantum Africa. Let me know if you have any questions and suggestions.
OneQuantum has been listed as one of the top conference organizers along with the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Seth Godin, Kevin Durant, Richard Branson, and Robert Rubinstein. We could not have done it without your support, thank you.
Our third WIQ summit was a big success and our 4th edition will be during the first week of March 2021 with more amazing speakers, learning sessions, a QML day track and a career fair. Read more here and reserve your spot now.
In case you missed the Weekly Quantum World Detangled | Season 2 Finale with Clarice D. Aiello (she,her) introducing us to her world of quantum biology, you can catch up here.
If you're interested in quantum machine learning (QML), sign ups are open for Xanadu's QHACK 2021! Sign up here and contact Kareem or Amira for help on finding a team. This is a great opportunity to get your hands dirty and make friends in QML.
IBM has an exciting opportunity in South Africa for 2021. Please see the link below for more information.
Quantum Community Advocate Intern
USC Viterbi offers an MSc in Quantum Information Science and has extended the application deadline to March 1, 2021. Check it out here.
Looking back to 2020 here is a good summary of quantum tech highlights from subfields ranging from quantum fundamentals to quantum computing.
Physicists in China challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’ and China realizes secure, stable quantum communication network spanning 4,600 km.
Congratulations to Abraham ‘‘Abe’’ Asfaw on successfully completing his Ph.D. journey at Princeton and Yaseera Ismail for being awarded the National Future Professor Award by the Department of Higher Education and Training, South Africa.
Sahar Ben Rached recently published a nice article on the Master's program in Nanophysics and Nanotechnology at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Tunis El Manar in the African Physics Newsletter. Read her post here.
Please share your quantum news and achievements via the feedback form.
Signing off
On a lighter note:
“The smallest money unit in a system of a 100% gold standard is a gold atom. For electronic money, the smallest possible money unit is linked to the smallest unit of energy needed to store or erase one bit so in the future, money will likely crash into the fundamental limits of physics, since energy comes in discrete units (quanta) and it is not continuous..” Read on here.
If you would like to present or share on any particular topic or want to make suggestions about how we can make the community better then let me know via the feedback form.
See you at OneQuantum Africa for more networking, exchanges, and collaboration.
Farai
President
OneQuantum Africa