Introduction to Quantum Information Processing
QIC 710, CS 768, CO 681, PHYS 767, AMATH 871, PMATH 871 (Fall 2025)
Instructor: Richard Cleve (cleve@uwaterloo.ca)
Note to students: please include QIC-710 in email subject, regardless of the version you’re in
TAs:
Avantika Agarwal (avantika.agarwal@uwaterloo.ca) office hour: TBA
Vahid R. Asadi (vrasadi@uwaterloo.ca) office hour: TBA
Eric Culf (eculf@uwaterloo.ca) office hour: TBA
Benjamin Wong (b62wong@uwaterloo.ca) office hour: TBA
Course web site: http://cleve.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/qic710
Classes: Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30-9:50am in EV2 Rm 2002 (first class is Sept 4)
General course information [here]
Lecture notes [here]
Old video lectures [here]
Announcements
- First class is on Thursday, Sept 4, 8:30-9:50am, in EV2 Room 2002.
- Assignment 1 has been posted (due: September 16)
Assignments (60% of grade)
- 6 assignments (10% each)
- Please check the grading policy information [here]
- Please check Sample Assignment A and Solutions to Sample Assignment A
Assignment 1 (due: September 16, 2025 at 11:59pm)
Tests (40% of grade)
- Two tests (20% each)
- Test 1 in class (tentatively October 21)
- Test 2 in class (tentatively December 2)