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Delve into the cutting-edge laboratories at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing during an innovative summer program that puts you at the forefront of science and technology.
The Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP) is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to work with the tools to harness and exploit the quantum world. You’ll learn from leading experts in the field at the Institute for Quantum Computing—one of the world’s largest research facilities devoted to quantum information processing.
The mixture of lectures and over 25 hours of experimental workshops offered at USEQIP are aimed at undergraduate students of engineering, physics, chemistry, computer science and math, though all interested students are invited to apply.
Twenty students will be accepted to the two-week program, with all travel, meal and housing costs funded by the Institute for Quantum Computing and their partners.
The program will include introductory lectures and hands-on workshops about such topics as: spin, superconducting and optical qubits, quantum cryptography, quantum error correction, quantum algorithms, decoherence and much more. Moreover, interested students can also apply for a summer research assistantship following the program.
The deadline for applications is March 4th, 2013.
For more information and to access the application form, visit http://iqc.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/useqip.
Apply today for USEQIP 2013!
Studying hard for 110? The CSSS is here to help! We’re hosting a free review session for 110 students. Practice questions will be provided—or come with your own.
When:
Monday, December 10, 2012 - 16:00 to 19:00
Launch Academy (startup-oriented co-working space) is hosting the “Iron Hacker” hackathon on Saturday, Dec. 8th. It’s in the mould of Iron Chef, where teams only learn the theme the day of, then have the day to make an app for that theme to present to a panel of judges and peers for a bunch of prizes for whichever team makes the best app. Example themes would be “Viral joke apps”, “one-player games”, or “dating apps”. The theme will also not be specific to any API, so you won’t be limited to whichever companies’ are sponsoring.
Format:
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Hacker teams of 2–4
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After registration the morning of the event, the theme of the hackathon will be revealed, and you have until 7pm to work on your hack
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Use whatever APIs, platforms, or frameworks you like to deliver your hack
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All presentations must be done on an organizer’s laptop: i.e. you need to demo something live on the internet. Exception: native mobile apps
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Prizes awarded by judges based on how functional your team’s app is and how well it corresponds to the theme
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“Iron Hacker” trophy will be awarded based on by peer judging of your team’s app
To keep this developer-centric, we’ve set up a couple hurdles for coders to get through before they can register (shouldn’t be a problem for even novice coders): http://ironhacker.org/
Hope to see you there!
When:
Saturday, December 8, 2012 - 09:00 to 21:00
Where:
Launch Academy, 300 - 128 W. Hastings
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Wanna be a tutor?
Help solidify your own knowledge of the material, improve communication skills, gain volunteer experience, and help out a fellow student! Don't be afraid if you think you won't be able to answer a question. The student you are helping does not expect you to know everything! You can always go to the Learning Centre and get additional help from a TA.
Need a tutor?
Get help with a difficult course! If that's not reason enough (!!!) you'll get to meet another student who can probably give you advice on other CS related things, eg. courses to take, great profs, etc. Remember though that they are a student like you so don't expect them to know everything!
If you'd like to participate, here's how to do it:
- Go to www.csss.cs.ubc.ca
- Create an account on the CSSS website or login with an existing account.
- Click 'my account' on the side bar
- Go to the 'edit' tab
- Click 'UBC'
- Halfway down the page you can select whether you would like to request the help of a volunteer tutor, or you would like to volunteer as a tutor.
- Enter the courses (or programming languages) you want help with, or you want to tutor in.
(Email webmaster[at]csss.cs.ubc.ca if you have any trouble.)
We'll match you up and then let you go from there! We'll also have fun informal social sessions for participants.
Can you hack it? Be a part of WOWZapp, Microsoft’s Worldwide Windows 8 hackathon for students. November 9–11th students from around the world will be building Windows 8 apps. Microsoft Canada is bringing WOWZapp to Vancouver at the BCIT Campus in Burnaby. Food, giveaways, prizes, and of course hacking! Register today!
When:
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 17:00 to Sunday, November 11, 2012 - 16:00
Where:
British Columbia Institute of Technology, 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby
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