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SUMMARY:A Simple Introduction to Quantum Computing and its Applications
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ignacio Cirac\nCampus Lecture with Prof. Ignacio Cirac\n
 Director at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics\nMonday November 3rd 20
 25 | 12pm | Forum Rolex\nIn English\n\n\nProgramme\n \n\n\n\n\n	12h00  
 Welcome remarks\n	\n		Anna Fontcuberta i Morral\, President\, EPFL \n		Vi
 cenzo Savona\, Associate Professor\, EPFL \n	\n	\n	12h10  Campus Lecture
  "A Simple Introduction to Quantum Computing and its Applications"\n	\n		I
 gnacio Cirac\, Director at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics\n	\n	\n
 	12h40  Panel discussion \n	\n		Ignacio Cirac\n		Vladimir Manucharyan\, 
 Associate Professor\, EPFL\n		Yihui Quek\, Tenure Track Assistant Professo
 r\, EPFL\n		Moderation by Vincenzo Savona\n	\n	\n	13h10 Q&A with the audie
 nce\n	13h25 Standing lunch\n\n\n\n\nIn collaboration with the EPFL Center
  for Quantum Science and Engineering (QSE Center) \n\nPresentation\n\nNowa
 days\, we are witnessing a scientific revolution where Information Theory 
 and Quantum Physics are combined and give rise to new and powerful ways of
  processing and transmitting information. In particular\, quantum computer
 s will be able to solve problems that are beyond the capabilities of exis
 ting supercomputers.  In this talk Prof.Ignacio Cirac will explain how th
 ose devices work\, give some examples of their potential impact\, and revi
 ew the current efforts to build them. He will also highlight the role of i
 mperfections in their performance\, and the limitations that this will cau
 se in the near future.\n\n\nAbout Prof. Ignacio Cirac\n\nJ. Ignacio Cirac 
 is a Spanish physicist\, director at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optic
 s in Germany. He is an expert in quantum computing and communication. With
  his collaborators\, he introduced the first theoretical proposals of quan
 tum computing\, simulation\, and repeaters\, and developed a theory of ten
 sor networks to solve problems quantum physics. He studied theoretical phy
 sics and gained his PhD at the University Complutense of Madrid. After a p
 ostdoc at JILA (Boulder\, US) and becoming Associate Professor at the Univ
 ersity of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) he became Professor of Theoretical Ph
 ysics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) in 1996. Since 2001 he is d
 irector of the Theory Division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Opti
 cs in Garching (Germany) and Honorary Professor at the Technical Universit
 y of Munich. He is also the speaker of the International Max-Planck Resear
 ch School on Quantum Science and Technology and co-speaker of the Munich C
 enter for Quantum Science and Technology. For his work he has been awarded
  several prizes\, among them the Prince of Asturias\, the BBVA frontiers o
 f knowledge\, the Benjamin Franklin Medal\, the Wolf Prize\, the Max-Planc
 k Medal and the Quantum Computer Prize of the Micius Foundation. He is a m
 ember of the Spanish\, Bavarian\, German and US American Academies of Scie
 nces.\n 
LOCATION:Forum Rolex https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240
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