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December 2019

• The EntropicaQAOA package
• The SGInnovate Summation programme
• Quantum tech workshop, Thailand 2019
• Welcome to a new team member
• What we are reading
• Entropica is hiring! 

The EL Team

Entropica Labs has partnered with SGInnovate as part of the bi-annual Summation Programme. Established by the Singapore Government, SGInnovate is the country's leading organisation for helping entrepreneurial scientists build Deep Tech startups. The Summation Programme is an apprenticeship framework to help students find unique work opportunities in exciting Singaporean startups. 

The applications for the summer intake (May - Aug) are now open, see Summation page here, and the deadline is 17th January 2020. Feel free to apply or to invite people you know to apply to work up to six months with us at Entropica (you can see our projects on the page directly)! The Programme offers attractive stipends (3,000-6,000 SGD/month), together with travel expenses reimbursements for eligible international students.  

• Apprentices will be mentored by senior Entropica team members.
• The Programme is open to both students in Singapore and overseas, and recent graduates.
• Applications will close on 11.59pm SGT (GMT +8) 17 Jan 2020.
• Check out the FAQs (Local Students, International Students) for more details!

In October, Tommaso joined colleagues and researchers in quantum computing from industry (Google, Tencent, Huawei, Baidu, NTT) and academia (CQT, A*Star, RQC) for the first Quantum tech workshop of the Quantum Technology Foundation of Thailand, organised together with RISE. It was excellent to witness the growth of the SEA quantum ecosystem while working together to establish stronger ties across the Asian region. Tommaso spoke about Entropica's work and shared ideas on the opportunities and challenges in quantum machine learning. This was also a welcomed opportunity to give a technical talk to our friends at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok's leading University in quantum sciences. 

The Entropica team warmly welcomes Nur Shahidee! Shahidee completed his Degree in Physics at the National University of Singapore in May 2019, and he joined the team this November. He brings to Entropica his skills in coding, algorithmic development and a keen interest in machine learning and quantitative finance. Thanks for your hard work and commitment! 

What we are reading
Articles, books, and all sort of interesting stuff

We have decided to share with you snippets of what books we keep on our bedside table, kindles, and what articles lie across the endless open tabs of our browsers. 

The Ants, by Bert H�lldobler and E. O. Wilson - The most comprehensive textbook on one of the most formidable and adaptable organisms of the planet. The Ants is a masterpiece of zoology, hiding a plethora of ideas for distributed computing and learning strategies. 

The first war of physics, by Jim Baggott - Baggott takes the reader by the hand and accompanies her through the 1939-1949 decade that witnessed the race to build the first atomic bomb. The book offers snippets of the lives of physicists who made history, highlighting the deep contradictions and struggles between ideologies, beliefs and love for scientific discovery. 

Playing Pool with |??: from Bouncing Billiards to Quantum Search, by Adam R. Brown - In this remarkable research paper, Brown shows that Grover's search algorithm for quantum computing is isomorphic to a method used to learn the digits of ? by counting the collisions of billiard balls. Nature is crazy beautiful!

Quantum effects in the brain: A review, by B. Adams and F. Petruccione - This excellent review aims to investigate the current state of this research and how fully the theory is supported by convincing experimental evidence. It also aims to clarify the biological sites of these proposed quantum effects and how progress made in the wider field of quantum biology might be relevant to the specific case of the brain. Because quantum is not only computing.

Quantum computing at the frontiers of biological sciences, by P.S. Emani and collaborators - In this manuscript the authors describe potential applications of quantum computing to problems in computational biology, exploring how the technology could help with the merging of insights from genetics, genomics, neuroimaging and behavioural phenotyping.

If you want to join the quantum computing revolution and you happen to have a background in maths, physics, computer science, machine learning, quantum information (you get the idea), we would love to hear from you! 

As founders, we are committed to contributing to the personal growth of our team members, and we actively provide mentorship and training throughout our work. Our ideal candidate is an adaptable, highly motivated, quick learner, with a passion for asking and answering difficult scientific questions.

We are hoping to add to the cultural and gender diversity of our team knowing that great companies are built from passionate people with diverse experiences. If you, or anyone you know, may be a good fit, do not hesitate to reach us out at careers@entropicalabs.com. 

Entropica Labs is a Singapore-based startup building software and algorithms to unlock the full power of machine learning with quantum computing.