PHYS 407/507 Course Schedule Page

PHYS 407/507 & CS 495
Introduction to Quantum Computing
Spring 2026 Schedule

Week

Date

Lecture Notes

Rieffel Reading

Wong Reading

Homework Due

Jan 13

Lecture #01

1; 2.1-2.3

2.2.1; 3.1.1-3.2.2

Jan 15

Lecture #02

2.4-2.5; 3.1

2.2.2-2.4.3; 4.2.1-4.2.2

Jan 20

Lecture #03

3.2-3.5

4.2.3-4.3.2

Jan 22

Lecture #04

4.1-4.2

4.2.4

HW #01

Jan 27

Lecture #05

4.3-4.4

6.2.1-6.2.6

Jan 29

Lecture #06

5.1-5.2

4.4.1-4.4.2

Prog. Rep. #1

Feb 03

Lecture #07

5.3-5.4

6.4-6.5

HW #02

Feb 05

Lecture #08

5.5-5.6

4.6.1-4.6.4

Feb 10

Lecture #09

6.1-6.3

4.5.2-4.5.6

Feb 12

Lecture #10

7.1-7.3

4.5.7

HW #03

Feb 17

Lecture #11

7.1-7.3

4.5.7

Feb 19

Lecture #12

7.4-7.6

Feb 24

Lecture #13

7.7-7.8; 8.1

HW #04

Feb 26

Lecture #14

8.1-8.4

Prog. Rep. #2

Mar 03

Midterm Exam #1

Mar 05

Lecture #15

Mar 10

Lecture #16

9.1-9.2

HW #05

Mar 12

Lecture #17

9.3-9.4

Mar 17

Spring Break - No Classes!

Mar 19

Mar 24

Lecture #18

9.5-9.6

Mar 26

Lecture #19

10-1

HW #06

Mar 31

Lecture #20

10.2

Prog. Rep. #3

Apr 02

Lecture #21

10.3-10.4

Apr 07

Lecture #22

11.1

Apr 09

Lecture #23

11.2

HW #07

Apr 14

Lecture #24

11.3

Apr 16

Lecture #25

11.4

Apr 21

Midterm Exam #2

Apr 23

Lecture #26

Apr 28

Lecture #26

Apr 30

Lecture #28

May 06

17:00:	Shreyash Wankhede	-	Quantum circuits for simulating neutrino propagation in matter
17:20:	Musharaf Pathan	-	A universal neutral-atom quantum computer with individual optical addressing and non-destructive readout
17:40:	Linzi Zheng	-	Improved quantum computation using operator backpropagation
18:00:	Payal Patel	-	Benchmarking quantum computers
18:20:	Joel Nicholas	-	Experimental authentication of quantum key distribution with post-quantum cryptography
18:40:	Ishaan Goel	-	Quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo

May 07

17:00:	Dulce Gomez	-	Quantum advantage for learning shallow neural networks with natural data distributions
17:20:	Thomas Czerwien	-	Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
17:40:	Furqan Farooqui	-	Quantum teleportation with one classical bit
18:00:	Lalith Kothuru	-	How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits
18:20:	Van Anderson	-	Experimental evidence that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an atom cloud
18:40:	Vivek Rai	-	Quantum KNN classification with K value selection and neighbor selection

May 08

17:00:	Chinonso Ogbodo	-	Kernel methods in quantum machine learning
17:20:	Alexander Barrett	-	Towards solving the BCS Hamiltonian gap in near-term quantum computers
17:40:	Milton Chuquela	-	A polylogarithmic-time quantum algorithm for the Laplace Transform
18:00:		-
18:20:		-
18:40:		-

May 09

Coding Project Due