Hi all, Yudong will talk at group meeting tomorrow. See below for his title and abstract. All the best, Ian ----------------- Title: Quantum neurons Abstract: Deep learning has gained a significant level of interest in recent years for various machine learning applications due to the versatility of neural networks for capturing non-linear features in data sets. In the meantime, quantum computing also has seen progress in a variety of areas such as simulation and numerical analysis. Therefore, an almost two decades long line of inquiry has been developed for answering the question "does there exist a natural model of quantum neural networks that captures the essential features of classical neural networks?". I will explain what "natural" and "essential features" mean exactly, and then I will present a new model of "quantum neuron" that upon preliminary examinations meets those requirements.