Peter Shor Lecture

Peter Shor is coming to town and will be giving a lecture at 7:30 pm in Kane Hall, Auditorium, Room 130.

We can meet before at 7:00 pm in the lobby, and afterwards as well.

This event is hosted by the UW QuantumX Institute, and you should register on their event page to attend the lecture:
Register To Attend the Lecture Here

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics Peter Shor will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 10 in Kane Hall. Shor’s research interests has predominantly been in theoretical computer science: he formerly worked on algorithms, computational geometry, and combinatorics and currently works on quantum computing."

"Quantum Computing
Abstract:
Shortly after quantum mechanics was first formulated around 1930, it became evident that it was a strange theory. It took over fifty years, however, for people to realize just how pervasive its strangeness was. We have now discovered that information theory, the theory of computation, and the theory of cryptography all change substantially when quantum mechanics is taken into account. It turns out that this strangeness can be used to accomplish tasks with quantum information processing that are not possible classically. One example of this, and the one that really drew attention to this phenomenon, was my discovery that quantum computers could factor large numbers into primes in manageable time frames, something that would take digital computers billions of years. Further, the theory of information transmission changes substantially when information is transmitted over quantum channels rather than over classical ones. And we have also discovered cryptographic protocols that use quantum information to perform tasks that are impossible classically. I will discuss these discoveries."