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157 lines
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#import "@preview/ilm:1.4.1": *
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#set text(lang: "en")
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#show: ilm.with(
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title: [MEP project proposal],
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author: "Noa Puk Aarts",
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date: datetime.today(),
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bibliography: bibliography("references.bib"),
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figure-index: (enabled: true),
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table-index: (enabled: true),
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listing-index: (enabled: true)
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)
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= Personal Data <s1>
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The current title I'm using is: ....
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My name is Noa Puk Aarts, and my student number is 6292755.
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The project is done as part of the .... research group.
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My responsible supervisor is Sebastian Feld,
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and my daily supervisor is Koen Mesman.
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The date of submission is #datetime.today().display()
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= Introduction
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= Research Question
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What is a way to generate an ansatz for a specific quantum computer to perform well on variational quantum eigensolvers?
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= Data Management
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I will be using Git to track all the changes I've made to the report and the project.
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It will start out being hosted on my personal forgejo instance, later on I will create a mirror to github.
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For data from various benchmarks and other testing results I plan to include them on the git project.
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If this data ends up becoming too much I can consider alternatives, but I don't expect this becomes a problem.
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= Training
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The Applied Quantum Algorithms course (WI4650) has introduced me to various aspects of the VQE. I'm also taking the
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Quantum Computing and Quantum Programming course at the time of writing which should help as well
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and should be finished near the end of january.
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I also have a lot of experience programming from my gap year where it was a big hobby of mine, as well as a part-time job.
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This experience will be useful since my project will have a significant focus on programming.
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= Risk Management
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While there are many risks I can think of, these four seem the most likely.
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I based this likelyhood on self-knowledge and my experiences with my bachelor thesis/team projects.
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== Surgery pulls me out of it
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I will very likely have a surgery somewhere in the spring, afterwards I'll have a revalidation period.
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Since I won't be rushing my own health this may take quite a while where I won't be focusing on the project
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as much. The risk is that after this I have to figure out where I was with my project and how to continue it.
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Since I will know at least a couple of weeks before the surgery, I have time to wrap up the thing I'm working on
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at that moment. I can also write down a short summary of what I was working on and what the next steps should be.
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Once I finished (part of) my recovery I will then be able to read this summary to get back into the flow of research.
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== Losing data
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Because I'm using a local Git server, there is the risk of my drive failing/getting corrupted and me losing my
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progress and data.
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I think the chances of this happening are small but non-zero. I also
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work on both my laptop and my computer which helps because I'll have somewhat recent clones of the git repository
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on both. This means that three copies exist, they aren't in different locations though. But if my house burns down
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I think I have bigger problems than the lost data.
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== Losing Motivation
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I am a person who is very bad at doing things when I'm not motivated to do them. This is partially due to
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the combination of ASS and ADHD (combined type).
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My motivation for this project is mostly driven from a sense to help my daily supervisor, together with
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me wanting to "make something I'm proud of". I think that once I have a plan around the holidays I will
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also get the new motivation source of "ooh, this is cool, I want to make this" which I hope will
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last till at least the bulk of the project is done.
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For the writing of the report I'm more scared, but I hope that starting with writing during the earlier
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phases so that I have at least a basis will help counteract my dislike of (academic) writing.
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I also have medication for my ADHD that should help with working on aspects that I know I have to do even
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though I don't like them.
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== Scope Creep
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While working on the project I will be thinking of ways to expand the scope to cover more usecases or
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changing large components due to new insights. While a small amount of this is healthy and expected,
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there is a risk of it becoming too much.
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To counteract the effects of scope-creep I'll be creating concrete and testable success criteria with
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my supervisor. This way I can ask for ideas "is this in the success criteria?" and create a more informed
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decision about if I should continue on this idea.
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= Supervision plan
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My responsible supervisor is, as mentioned before in @s1 Sebastian Feld.
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Also mentioned before my daily supervisor is Koen Mesman.
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= Project Planning
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#let kickoff-day = datetime(day: 10, month:11, year:2025)
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#let week(offset) = [#(kickoff-day + duration(weeks: offset)).display("[month]/[day]") - #(kickoff-day + duration(weeks: offset, days: 6)).display("[month]/[day]")]
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#table(
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columns: (auto, auto),
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table.header([*Week* (mm/dd)], [*Task*]),
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week(0), [Kick-Off],
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week(1), [Review Literature],
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week(2), [Review Literature],
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week(3), [Review Literature],
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week(4), [Review Literature],
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week(5), [Plan project direction],
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week(6), [Holiday],
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week(7), [Holiday],
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week(8), [Start Project implementation],
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week(9), [Work on Project],
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week(10), [Work on Project],
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week(11), [Work on Project],
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week(12), [Work on Project],
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week(13), [Work on Project],
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week(14), [Create progress report],
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week(15), [Midterm],
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week(16), [Benchmarking],
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week(17), [Implement Project Improvements],
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week(18), [Implement Project Improvements],
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week(19), [Benchmarking],
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week(20), [Implement Project Improvements],
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week(21), [Implement Project Improvements],
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week(22), [Testing with hardware],
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week(23), [Implement issue fixes],
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week(24), [Testing on hardware],
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week(25), [Write Report],
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week(26), [Write Report],
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week(27), [Draft 1],
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week(28), [Green Light],
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week(29), [Write Report],
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week(30), [Draft 2],
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week(31), [Write Report],
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week(32), [Final version],
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week(33), [],
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week(34), [Help Organise Festival],
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week(35), [Help Organise Festival],
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week(36), [Help Organise Festival],
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)
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