Q-Majlis

Q-Majlis — a quantum community, open to everyone.

A majlis is where people sit down and work something out together. That is the room we wanted to build, and it is open to everyone. Wherever you are, if you want to learn quantum computing properly, and the cryptography work that has to happen whether or not the hardware arrives on schedule, this is for you. Free, open material, no gatekeeping, no entry test.

  • Global
  • Free
  • Online-first

§ Why another one

Gap one

Nobody teaches the part that is hiring.

The established quantum communities teach quantum computing, and they teach it well. None of them teach post-quantum cryptography migration, which is the skill with budget attached to it today. Banks and ministries are staffing for it now, a decade before a quantum computer breaks anything.

One of our four tracks is PQC. It is the one most likely to get you paid.

Gap two

Everything runs in someone else’s time zone.

Most quantum communities schedule for North American or European hours, which quietly excludes most of Asia, Africa and Oceania. We run cohorts across time bands rather than one.

Cohorts run in two time bands so nobody is permanently on a 3am call.

§ Four tracks

Foundations

6 weeks · two time bands · linear algebra only

Qubits, gates, interference and measurement, built by running circuits rather than reading about them. Every session ends with something you constructed yourself in the simulator on this site.

  • Superposition
  • Entanglement
  • Circuits
  • Measurement

Optimization & machine learning

8 weeks · Foundations or equivalent

Formulating a real problem into QUBO and Ising form, which is where most quantum projects actually fail. Then variational algorithms, quantum kernels, and honest benchmarking against the classical solver you would otherwise use.

  • QUBO
  • QAOA
  • VQE
  • Quantum kernels

Post-quantum cryptography

8 weeks · developers and security engineers

The employable one. Reading the NIST standards without a cryptography degree, building a cryptographic inventory of a real estate, hybrid key exchange, and what breaks when you turn it on. Taught from migration work, not from a textbook.

  • ML-KEM
  • ML-DSA
  • Crypto-agility
  • Inventory

Quantum networks

6 weeks · Foundations or equivalent

Entanglement distribution, repeaters, key distribution and why distance is such a brutal constraint. Built on the network simulator, so you can see a link stop producing key rather than being told that it does.

  • QKD
  • Repeaters
  • Swapping
  • Distributed QC

§ How it runs

Cohorts

Twice a year

Tracks run as fixed cohorts so you move through with the same people. Two sessions a week, recorded, in two time bands.

Open material

Free, always

Notebooks and exercises stay public whether or not you join a cohort. No paywall, no certificate upsell.

Challenges

Real problems

Anonymised scheduling and routing problems from industry, posed as open challenges with published results.

Meetups

Online, and in person where we can

Everything runs online by default. In-person meetups happen wherever enough members cluster to make one worth running.

Being straight about the incentive: we run this partly because it is how we find people to hire and collaborate with. Nothing is conditional on that, the material stays free either way, and you will never be pitched a service in a session.

§ Join

Tell us what to call you.

A working email address, please.

Tell us your country so we can schedule for your time zone.

Only used to judge whether a local meetup makes sense, and which time band suits you.

Optional. Helps us pitch the level correctly.

Pick the closest match.

This decides which cohort you land in.

Tracks you want

Choose at least one.

Optional, and the most useful box on the form. A job, a thesis topic, a problem at work.

No account, no password. We reply by email.

§ What we ask, and why

We are a security company, so it would be poor form to collect anything we cannot justify. Every field on that form is here, with what it is for.

FieldWhy we askRequired
NameSo sessions and emails are not addressed to a stranger.Yes
EmailThe only way we contact you. Never sold, never shared.Yes
CountryPlacing you in a time band that is not the middle of your night.Yes
CityJudging whether an in-person meetup near you is worth running.No
University or employerPitching the material at the right level, and spotting where cohorts cluster.No
RoleA security engineer and an undergraduate need different starting points.Yes
ExperiencePlacing you in a cohort where you are neither lost nor bored.Yes
TracksDeciding which cohorts to run and how large to make them.Yes
What you wantThe one that actually shapes the curriculum.No