Quantum Computing

USRA Q2B Applied NISQ Computing Paper 2021 Award

USRA and QC Ware are pleased to announce the USRA Q2B Applied NISQ Computing paper award. Submissions are open. One winner will be awarded an invitation for the main author to present their paper at Q2B 2021 (including a full ticket and paid travel allowance) as well as a selection between a prize based on the awardees' preference of up to $2,000 credits on QC Ware Forge platform or up to $5,000 of AWS Promotional Credit for use on Amazon Braket. Use of AWS Credit is subject to conditions of the user's AWS Account and the AWS Promotional Credit Terms & Conditions.

Proposals will be evaluated on their merit across multiple factors, as detailed in the Award Submission Instruction Document.

2021 ANISQ Award Sponsors

Past Winners

Awardee	Award Type	Affiliation	Paper	Q2B presentation
Prof. Aram Harrow	Winner	MIT	Small quantum computers and large classical data sets
Lucas T. Brady, Lucas Kocia, Przemyslaw Bienias, Aniruddha Bapat, Yaroslav Kharkov, Alexey V. Gorshkov	Winner	NIST/UMD, QJI, SNL	Behavior of Analog Quantum Algorithms	Coming soon
Paul K. Faehrmann, Mark Steudtner, Richard Kueng, Maria Kieferova, Jens Eisert	Honorable Mention	Freie Universitat Berlin, IIC, CQCCT, HZB	Randomizing multi-product formulas for improved Hamiltonian simulation
Balint Koczor and Simon C. Benjamin	Honorable Mention	University of Oxford	Quantum Analytic Descent