​Join the Waitlist for the 2026 Quantum Program

​​This summer, we're hosting a training series on Quantum & AI!  This 6 week program bridges quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and classical optimization to tackle real-world decision and scheduling problems at scale.

​Participants will move from core theory to production-grade tooling, learning how to translate messy, applied problems into optimization formulations that can run on classical HPC systems, quantum hardware, and hybrid AI–quantum workflows.

This is waitlist-only registration. Final dates and details will be confirmed in early 2026.

​​Program Timeline:

​We’ll share the final calendar and topics in the new year. For now, you can pencil in the following provisional session windows (subject to change):

​Mondays & Wednesdays, 10:00–12:00 US Eastern Time, starting from 24 June and running until the end of July

​​​Tentative Program Agenda

​​❯ Week 1: Combinatorial (unconstrained) optimization Kick off the program with an overview of classical methods (like linear programming, branch and bound, simulated annealing), QUBO formulation, learning heuristics and more!

​​❯ Week 2: Combinatorial (unconstrained) optimization. We'll take a look at industry applications and embark on a numerical optimization bootcamp.

​​❯ Week 3: Constrained optimization. We'll dive into an overview of classical approaches (SDP, ADMM, KKT), handling constraints in QAOA, quantum SDP solvers, gate vs annealing-based approaches and more!

​​❯ Week 4: Constrained optimization. Our focus in week 4 will be on industry applications, panel discussions

​​❯ Week 5: Stochastic optimization. From Bayesian optimization (Ax/BoTorch), sampling approaches in quantum, stochastic QAOA, to applications to portfolio optimization.

​​❯ Week 6: Large-scale/ distributed optimization. To finish off the course we'll be bridging AI/ Quantum/ HPC, circuit optimization(ZX calculus), and looking at software implementation pipelines.

​​❯ Week 7-9: Quantum Projects and hackathon

​Key Project Partners:

​​❯ Coming soon

​​Prizes:

​​❯ Paid fellowships
❯ Prizes and Awards

​​Who can join?

​​❯ Everyone but basic math knowledge as a prerequisite

​Have a question?

​​❯ You can also contact us on: hello @ thewiser.org