During this short course we will give an overview of the basic concepts of the Theory of Open Quantum Systems and, at the same time, we will learn how to perform simulations of paradigmatic open systems models using near-term quantum computers. Specifically, we will use IBM Python-based language Qiskit for project-based examples of the course. The course is based on the Python book “Open Quantum Systems with Qiskit” which has won the 1st prize in the "IBM Teach Me Quantum Awards" in 2020.

All material is open source and available here: https://matteoacrossi.github.io/oqs-jupyterbook/index.html. The students will have the opportunity of creating their own projects, which will become part of the book, in this way contributing to open science.