Instructions for each team (1 to 6 people):
- Browse through all the challenges (given below), to get an overview on each Hackathon challenge.
- Visit the challenge repositories for detailed explaination of the challenges.
- Network with fellow participants during the Womanium Team-building events over Zoom and on Discord to find your perfect team.
- Finalise your team and the challenge you want to work during the Hackathon. Submit the Team & Challenge Registration Form (see link on Discord) by August 5th 2022
- Fork/duplicate the challenge repository of your choice (for the purposes of these instructions, this forked/duplicated repository will be referred to as your “team repository”).
- Work on your team repository during the Hack period (August 8th 2022 - August 23rd 2022). Your repository has to be made public at the time of the Hackathon end for us to be able to judge your solutions. All work inside your team repository will be considered as the final submission for this hackathon. Submit your Team Repository as a PR on the Challenge Repository.
- Please do not modify your team repository between the Judging period (August 24th 2022 - August 25th 2022). If you modify your team repository during this period, your submission may be subject to disqualification.
- All results will be announced on August 25th 2022, 11am-1pm US ET.
- Name of the team.
- Name of all team members, along with their Discord ID, Github ID, and contact email.
- Name of the Challenge they are participating in.
- A comprehensive ReadMe file which contains all the details of your hack solution.
- All necessary code files, pitch deck and any other information you feel is required to judge your challenge solution.
- Remember to submit your Team repository by submitting a PR only to the challenge repository you are working on. Final Team repositories must be made public and submitted by August 23rd 2022.
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/Quantum-Hardware-Education-Challenge---QWorld
Develop an interactive quantum hardware module for QWorld! QWorld currently offers the comprehensive Quantum Programming modules QBronze, QSilver and QNickel. In this challenge, you will expand the QWorld curriculum with an exciting interactive module on a hardware implementation of your choice: from superconducting qubits and Qiskit Metal to topological quantum computing.
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/Green-Qupermarket-Technical-Focus---Deloitte
The goal of the Green Qupermarket challenge is to analyze how quantum technology can optimize the energy consumption model of supermarkets in regard to its CO2 emissions. The challenge scenario features a supermarket, multiple electric vehicles, and various weather conditions. The energy management of the supermarket is to be optimized so that the total CO2 emission is minimal by using the green decentrally generated energy out of electric vehicles. The batteries of the electric vehicles can be used as additional storage capacity. Create a quantum algorithm, a quantum hybrid solution or a quantum inspired solution addressing the optimization of the utilization of electricity with respect to a minimum CO2 emission.
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/Green-Qupermarket-Business-Focus---Deloitte
The goal of the Green Qupermarket challenge is to analyze how quantum technology can optimize the energy consumption model of supermarkets in regard to its CO2 emissions. The challenge scenario features a supermarket, multiple electric vehicles, and various weather conditions. The energy management of the supermarket is to be optimized so that the total CO2 emission is minimal by using the green decentrally generated energy out of electric vehicles. The batteries of the electric vehicles can be used as additional storage capacity. Develop a price model for charging and discharging of electric vehicles taking into account CO2 emissions and dependency of demand and supply on weather conditions, and develop a corresponding business model.
https://github.com/iqm-finland/iqm-academy-womanium-hackathon-DAQC-VQE
This task is to develop a new VQE ansatz based on the digital-analog quantum computing (DAQC) framework. The ansatz will combine analog evolution of the processor hamiltonian with single qubit gates placed at the right time intervals. The model has potential to be “more hardware efficient” than typical hardware efficient ansätze.
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/Random-number-generation-using-boson-sampling---ORCA-Computing
In this challenge, you will develop a true random number generator using boson sampling. You will develop a proof of concept algorithm using open-source quantum simulation packages, and then deploy your algorithm on real hardware available in the cloud.
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/World-class-Quantum-chemistry-with-TKET---Quantinuum
Your company builds hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and is interested in finding new ways for a cost-effective and compact hydrogen storage system. You are working in the research and development (R&D) department and are tasked to evaluate the feasibility to simulate the quantum state of a Lithium Hydride (LiH) molecule using a gate-based quantum device. Based on the known gate sets and the qubit coupling map, you are tasked to find the best quantum device currently available.
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/Quantum-Natural-Language-Processing-with-lambeq---Quantinuum
Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) is a very young area of research aimed at designing and implementing NLP models that exploit certain quantum phenomena. One issue with current NLP systems is that it is impossible to predict their behavior accurately. The objective for the participants of this hackathon challenge is to get some familiarity with compositional models of natural language running on quantum hardware. Can QNLP offer the possibility to build interpretable systems?
Current era noisy quantum devices may be well suited to solving quantum approximate optimisation algorithms (QAOA) which are extremely relevant to real world scenarios. As time on a quantum computer is currently extremely expensive we find that many users are mostly interested in how much is this going to cost! In this project we will create and test a QAOA algorithm and analyse its accuracy as we vary the depth and complexity of the quantum circuit to estimate the usefulness of the solution vs. the overall cost for running such an algorithm.
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/Humans-vs-Quantum-Computers---IBM
Create a working interactive ‘program’ (it can be a website, game, app, etc.) in which a human user is facing off against a quantum computer. This is broad on purpose - the program can be built in many different ways. Your program should implement strategies that seriously challenge the human player. The implementation must utilize more than just probabilities related to measuring quantum states. You must use Qiskit to program the computer’s gameplay strategy, and as much as possible, the strategy should be implemented with quantum circuits and quantum gates on real quantum hardware (although using the Simulator is understandable given the time limit).
10. Predict the orbit of the James Webb space telescope with a quantum algorithm --> by Herman Øie Kolden
This challenge takes you from start to finish in exponentially fast quantum simulation of classical physics. After demonstrating a proof-of-concept implementation in python, you explore how quantum teleportation can bridge the gap to practical applications. Finally, your creativity is tested by sketching an end-to-end application of the circuit.
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/Cryogenic-Entrepreneurship-Challenge---Womanium
Dilution refrigerators are in growing demand for ultra-low temperature research and applications. Develop a Dilution-Refrigerator-as-a-Service (DRaaS) business model. With this model, anyone who needs a dilution refrigerator can access it with a service model without having to buy their own. This would be analogous to provisioning servers on AWS Cloud Computing versus buying, owning and operating on-premise servers.
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/Video-AI-Challenge---Womanium
500 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute! What determines what we watch and what disappears into the deep abyss of the internet? There is a strong competition for our eyeballs and the quality of the video, its content, format, music - everything is very important to ensure that a viewer stays and listens to a video beyond the first 5 seconds. At Womanium too, we have faced the challenge - what should we do so that the high quality lectures given during the live sessions maintains its dynamism and engagement when uploaded to Youtube? When we compared our speakers to other pre-recorded education videos on the internet, we realised one important thing we needed to correct. And this correction method took 4 minutes of every 1 minute of video to correct. Your challenge here is to automate this error correction!
https://github.com/womanium-quantum/Womanium-Quantum-Entrepreneurship-Challenge---Womanium
Have an idea for an opportunity where you think quantum computing can be applied? Build your own team’s challenge – technical, entrepreneurial or both!