Seminar Announcement: Monday, 26 October 2020, 11:00 AM EDT (online) A dissertation on Benchmarks and Controls for Optimization with Quantum Annealing Presented by Ms. Erica Grant Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education University of Tennessee, Knoxville Monday, 26 October 2020, 11:00 AM EDT (online) Abstract: Quantum annealing (QA) is a metaheuristic specialized for solving optimization problems which uses principles of Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC), namely the adiabatic…