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title: 'Dead & Alive 2023: General Prompt'

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# GENERAL PROMPT

### RULES
* **Any IITR student can participate**, in teams of minimum 1 and maximum 4 members. 
* Please register your team and member details in the TEAM REGISTRATION [form](https://forms.gle/aq1JWDA7HzAVFPWN8) **before 3rd November, 10 PM**. Only *one* member of the team has to fill the above form. Also, please ensure that *all* your team members have filled the individual registration [form](https://forms.gle/QbzpfxHYE6poFUyx5) as well. 

* All projects must use Qiskit, the open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of pulses, circuits, and application modules. You can learn more about Qiskit and begin getting familiar [here](https://qiskit.org/learn/). 

* You *can* *NOT* start building your project before the Opening Ceremony, and you must submit your project before the deadline, **5th November, 12 PM**.

## **PROMPT**

The task for you, should you to choose to attempt this prompt, is to create novel Quantum Software based Projects. Take on the challenge of developing something original using quantum algorithms to solve a real-world problem or simply showcasing quantum computing for educational purposes. The rules for this prompt are, there are no rules (as long as it's something related to design, implementation or exploration of ideas from Quantum Computation)! However it is necessary to frame your project in [qiskit](https://qiskit.org/learn/) if it involves coding.

Although there are no set boundaries to which your project should be confined to, we are providing a few possible project tracks that you can use if you're unable to think of something on your own:

**(A) Coding Track**
You can tackle specific tasks using quantum programming and algorithms.

One of the big bets in the quantum world is hybrid computing, in which we combine the potential of quantum and classical computers to obtain results we would not be able to achieve with classical computing alone. With this track, you can look for code-based solutions to problems on which hybrid computing could be applied and show us what it can do.

**(B) Research track**
Use this track to delve into the potential of newly published research. Find scientific papers that have been published recently in notable conferences. You can try to replicate their results, extend them or even contribute new ideas to advance the presented research. 

If you're a beginner or don't have time to cook some fresh ideas, you can also send in an annotated paper. A standard annotated paper includes a brief summary of the source paper, the source’s strengths and weaknesses, its conclusions, relevance in the field of study, its relationships to existing studies in the field, your personal conclusions and/or an evaluation of the research methodology (if possible). There are several examples of annotated papers available on google for your assistance. 



**(C ) Others**
Do not feel restricted to stick to the above two tracks, they have been mentioned just to help you with ideation. 
Any other solution to a problem that you can think of which uses Quantum principles can be submitted as part of the General Prompt. We're talking Quantum Games, Quantum Error Correction projects, Quantum Cryptography tricks, Quantum Algorithms or anything quantum that you can whip up!


> **Refer to last year's hackathon [blog](https://medium.com/@qcgiitr/dead-alive-iit-roorkee-qiskit-fall-fest-2022-d5e3e3018f83) for inspiration.**


### Submissions
The submissions shall be in the form of 
* Github repositories, for code-based projects
or
* For the research track, you must submit the extended research/ replicated results/ annotated paper as a [Notion file](https://www.notion.so/). Brownie points for including a link to your GitHub repository (in the Notion file itself) in case you have performed any experiments/ found new results via code of the paper 

AND a presentation (google slides/sharepoint) summarising the motivation and purpose of your project along with the code/concept you have used.

> **Submit** your repository/notion file along with your presentation [here](https://forms.gle/MK2drepJnGoHQkj47). Only one member of the team needs to submit the form. 

Note: You can edit your presentation after 12 PM too. However, your github repository/notion file **cannot** be edited after 12 PM. If any edits are found, the project will not be considered for evaluation. 

**Please follow all guidelines mentioned on our [website](https://qcg.iitr.ac.in/hackathon.html).**

> **Deadline for submission: 5 NOVEMBER, 12 PM**

### Judging Criteria 
* **Originality and Uniqueness**: How unique is the project? Did the team attempt something new or difficult?
* **Usefulness and Complexity**: Will others be able to use the project in future? How functional is the project as of judging? 
* **Quantum Computing Benefit**: Will this project help the community at large? Is there any scope for research? Will this project help others learn QC?
* **Presentation**: Did the team represent their project well? Was the team able to explain why they made certain decisions?

> You must present your work in front of the judges on 5th November, 2023.
> Time and venue: 6 PM, APJAKB - 002
> The presentation should be of 5-10 minutes only.
> Exact schedule for presentations of teams will be sent on the discord server after the submissions have been made. 


