Coding With Qiskit Will Be Back For Season Two

Since last year, thousands of you joined IBM Quantum and Qiskit’s Abe Asfaw for a YouTube crash course on quantum computing called Coding with Qiskit. We’re excited to announce that we’ll be back soon with a season two, hosted by Jin-Sung Kim.

Coding with Qiskit’s season one covered the basics of quantum computers, like how to install Qiskit, how to write quantum circuits, and how to program some simple quantum algorithms and programs. For season two, Jin will dive deeper into algorithms with real-world applications.

Jin-Sung Kim is a Research Staff Member on the IBM Quantum team based in California. He studies quantum algorithms and applications, with an interest in pushing the most performance out of today’s quantum devices. For those of you missing Abe, don’t worry, you’ll be in good hands; Jin was a labmate of Abe’s atPrinceton.

This season’s Coding with Qiskit will focus on a few of today’s most popular quantum algorithms. You’ll learn how to run the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that simulates the ground state energy of a molecule. This algorithm could be useful one day for developing new molecules to be used as medicines or materials. You’ll also learn the Quantum Support Vector Machine (QSVM), a promising machine learning algorithm meant to classify data based on various features.

There hasn’t been a better time to get involved in quantum computing, and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to learn how to program a quantum computer on your own. We hope you’ll follow along — if you do, you’ll be building quantum algorithms in no time.

Season two of Coding with Qiskit begins this Friday. Watch the teaser above, and subscribe to the Qiskit YouTube here so you don’t miss an episode.