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SUMMARY:Quantum Computing for High Energy Physics – Talk by Dr. Federico
  Carminati from CERN
DTSTART:20191212T131500
DTEND:20191212T141500
DTSTAMP:20260407T183827Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Federico Carminati is the Chief innovation officer of the CERN
  openlab. His goal is to investigate potential applications of machine lea
 rning and quantum computing for high-energy physics.\n\nFederico obtained 
 his master’s degree in physics at the University of Pavia\, Italy\, in 1
 981. He worked as a particle physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory a
 nd the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) before being hired by 
 CERN in 1985. He first worked in the Organization’s division for data ha
 ndling and was responsible for managing the CERN Program Library and the G
 EANT detector simulation program\, the global-standard high-energy physics
  suite in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nFrom 1994 to 1998\, Federico worked with
  Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia on the prototype design of a novel accelerato
 r-driven nuclear-power device. From 1998 to 2013\, he was the computing co
 ordinator for ALICE\, one of the four large experiments on the LHC. In 201
 3\, Federico obtained a PhD in physics from the University of Nantes\, Fra
 nce. From 2013 to 2017\, he led the development of the new generation of c
 ode used to simulate particle transport at CERN.\n\nFederico is also a gro
 up psychoanalyst and is certified in pet-assisted therapy. He is a member 
 of the Charles Baudouin International Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psy
 chotherapy and the Society for Multidisciplinary Psychoanalysis\, both in 
 Geneva\, Switzerland\nTitle: Quantum Computing for High Energy Physics App
 lications\n\nAbstract: With the commissioning of the upgraded LHC-HL mach
 ine\, High Energy Physics will face a large shortage of computing resource
 s that has been evaluated between a factor 10 and 100. It is therefore nec
 essary to explore all avenues that can lead to an improvement of the perfo
 rmance of HEP software. Quantum Computing has the potential to offer unpre
 cedented performances\, but at the price of a fundamental rethinking of ou
 r algorithms and\, to an extent\, computing model. This talk will first in
 troduce the principles of Quantum Computing. It will then present some pos
 sible avenues to exploit Quantum Computing for High Energy Physics researc
 h and will expand on the projects currently under way or in preparation in
  connection with the HEP physicist and the major technology providers. In 
 particular we will expand on the areas where we see the greatest potential
  for “Quantum Dominance” and we will consider what could be the impact
  of Quantum Computing on the HEP computing model. We will also point out w
 hat are the possible usage outside the realm of HEP of the proposed techni
 ques and applications.\n\nHosts: EPFL Quantum Computing Association
LOCATION:CE 1 3 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CE%201%203
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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