Vietnam School of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing

August 17-23, 2025, ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam

Founded in 1993 by Jean Tran Thanh Van, the association Rencontres du Vietnam, a non-profit organization and an official partner of UNESCO, has as its objective the promotion of international exchanges between Vietnam and the international community, particularly in the areas of science and education. It also aims at the encouragement and integration of Vietnamese scientists into the international scientific community and at supporting the role of education and science by encouraging scientific awareness and stimulating passion for science in the younger generation. The Rencontres du Vietnam lies within the scope of two series of scientific meetings created by Jean Tran Thanh Van : the Rencontres de Moriond in 1966 and the Rencontres de Blois in 1989.

The creation of the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE) in the city of Quy Nhon (Central Vietnam) has the ambitious objective to focus on developing Science and Education by fostering exchanges between Asia-Pacific scientists and colleagues from other parts of the world.

Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence are emerging as dynamic research areas with potential radical influences on computational technology and essential industrial areas, such as material sciences, logistics, healthcare, and finance. In fact, critical advancements in drug discovery, cryptography & communication have been achieved over the last two decades. This puts a strong request on the near-future human resources. This proposed school aims at bringing students to this frontier of research and technology.

The target groups of this summer school are bachelor students and master students in southeast asia and asia. PhD students in their early years are also welcome.

Lecturers are international professors and engineers, who are experts in several fields, including Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computing, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Mini Projects are designed for students in groups to encourage active learning. Training presentations for students are in plan. The schedule also leaves ample room for further discussions between students and lecturers. A more detailed description about the program will be detailed as below.

TOPICS

• Quantum Mechanics: Introduction to the basic notion of qubits, gates
• Basic for Quantum Technologies using Trapped Ions and Photon
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Foundations and Applications
• Emerging Trends in AI: From NLP (Natural Language Processing) to Generative and Agentic AI
• Introduction to Quantum Algorithms
• Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry
• Industry session: Quantum Chemistry Applications : Drug Discovery
• Quantum Simulation
• Tutorial: the Qaptiva platform
• Implementation Quantum Algorithm: OpenVQE package