BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tai-Danae Bradley (SandboxAQ) DTSTART:20260227T163000Z DTEND:20260227T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260422T171812Z UID:CompMath/28 DESCRIPTION:Title: What is a good quantum encoding?\nby Tai-Danae Bradley (SandboxAQ) a s part of Relatorium seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nOne aim of quantum machine lea rning is to determine whether quantum computers can provide advantages ove r traditional machine learning. This exploration depends on how classical data is encoded onto a quantum computer\, a choice that can vary significa ntly from one learning task to another. Recent studies have demonstrated t hat identifying relevant mathematical structures in the data can yield val uable insights into what constitutes a good encoding choice. In this talk\ , I will introduce these concepts from a high level and explain how viewin g them through a category-theoretic lens can offer a general\, yet princip led\, perspective on designing quantum encodings that preserve mathematica l structure.\n\nSpeaker bio:\nTai-Danae Bradley is a mathematician and cre ator at SandboxAQ\, a startup company focused on AI and quantum technologi es\, and a visiting research professor of mathematics at The Master’s Un iversity. She has a PhD in mathematics from the CUNY Graduate Center and s pent time as a postdoctoral researcher at X\, The Moonshot Factory (Google X) before joining SandboxAQ. She is the creator of the mathematics blog M ath3ma\, as well as a coauthor of the graduate-level textbook Topology: A Categorical Approach and a former co-host of the PBS YouTube channel “In finite Series”. Her research interests include category theory\, machine intelligence\, and quantum physics.\n\n\nModerator: Ted Theodosopoulos\nT ed is a mathematician who\, after working for years in academia and indust ry\, transitioned to teaching at the pre-college level sixteen years ago\, the last eight at Nueva\, where he teaches math and economics. Ted’s re search background is in the area of interacting stochastic systems\, with particular applications in biology and economics.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/CompMath/28/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR