Activities
International hackathons, events and seminars we organise at the Politecnico, and the occasions where we explain quantum computing to people who meet it for the first time.
Upcoming
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QubiTO Hackathon 2026
Company talks and a 24-hour quantum computing hackathon at the Politecnico, organised by QubiTO.
2026
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QubiTO Quantum Seminars
Three seminars on the foundations of quantum mechanics, with Marco Giovanelli, Marco Genovese and Davide Romano.
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ETH Quantum Hackathon 2026 in Zurich
3rd place and honourable mention in the QuEra challenge
Two challenges, by QuEra and Zurich Instruments: fault-tolerant circuit synthesis and autonomous qubit calibration.
2025
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IQM Quantum Hack in Madrid
2nd place in the Indra challenge
24 hours of quantum computing on the Indra and Santander challenges, with a modified Monte Carlo Tree Search.
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Pushquantum Hackathon at TUM in Munich
An error correction strategy for very limited hardware, comparing standard algorithms, optimisation models and a solution of our own.
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QubiTO Quantum Days
Three days at the Politecnico for the centenary of quantum mechanics, with Riccardo Adami, Scott Aaronson and a workshop on the Lagrange quantum computer.
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GenQ Global Hackathon Series in Geneva
2nd place and Innovation Award (medical imaging)
Quantum machine learning at CERN on two problems: medical image classification and air quality forecasting.
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ETH Quantum Hackathon 2025 in Zurich
Two teams on the QCentroid (portfolio optimization) and QuEra (gate parallelization) challenges.
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Orientation Fair 2025
Second participation at the Orientation Fair, meeting new students interested in quantum physics.
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Pi Day
Celebrating Pi Day with a quantum perspective, exploring the role of π in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics.
2024
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Pushquantum Hackathon 2024
Participation in the international hackathon at the TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute in Munich.
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Internal Hackathon 2024
Second internal hackathon, on quantum optimization and quantum machine learning, with original projects and new application horizons.
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DevFest Alps 2024
Second participation at Google DevFest Alps with a new talk, sharing our passion for quantum computing.
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ETH Quantum Hackathon 2024
Our first international hackathon at ETH Zurich: 24 hours of intense work on challenges proposed by startups and companies.
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Orientation Fair 2024
During Politecnico's annual Orientation Fair, we introduced ourselves to curious and quantum-interested prospective students.
2023
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Exploring Quantum Opportunities
Our first major outreach event, with BeQuantum: over 200 people in the room to talk about careers in quantum technologies.
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DevFest Alps 2023
On stage at Google DevFest Alps, we presented our work on Grover's algorithm and quantum oracles.
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Internal Hackathon 2023
An internal challenge on Grover's algorithm: mixed teams, working on their own and competing against each other, as in a real hackathon.
