Cafe Sci: Quantum Computers for the Future (and for Cocktail Parties)

[Note: I must attend Cafe Sci virtually because of my schedule. If anyone wants to get together and go as a group, please feel free!]

March's Cafe Sci is ON-SITE ONLY. To attend, you must register here.

Cafe Sci is recorded for later viewing on CSC's YouTube channel.

FREE and open to the public, but Cafe Sci gratefully accepts donations. Parking in the CSC lot costs $6.

March's topic
Quantum computers exploit the bizarre features of quantum physics – uncertainty, fuzzy states of reality, quantum entanglement – to perform tasks that are impossible using conventional means. These include the computing and optimizing over ungodly amounts of data; breaking encryption standards; simulating models of chemistry and materials; and communicating via quantum teleportation. However, quantum computers are notoriously hard to build and scale. Despite this, many important problems known and unknown will never be solved until we have them, so society is well-motivated. During the lecture, Professor Monroe will discuss the state-of-the-art in this remarkable field, led by scientists and engineers from academia, industry, and government.

March's speaker
Christopher Monroe is the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at Duke University. He is also the Cofounder and Chief Scientist of IonQ, Inc., the first public quantum computing company. Monroe has pioneered nearly all aspects of atom-based quantum computers and simulators, from demonstrations of the first quantum gate, monolithic semiconductor-chip ion trap, and photonic interconnects between physically separated qubits; to the design, fabrication, and use of full-stack ion trap quantum computer systems in both university and industrial settings. He is a key architect of the US National Quantum Initiative, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, the UK Institute of Physics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Register here.