Christian Bauer

When: March 18, 4 - 5 PM Pacific Time

What: Since the invention of the computer, engineers have been trying to fit more and more information into a smaller space. We have just about reached our boundary with transistors a mere 6 nanometers wide. Luckily, with the discovery of quantum mechanics, there might be an alternative answer. This talk will introduce the idea of quantum computing and why it has the potential to outperform normal (classical computers). After introducing some basic ideas, I will finish with an example of how quantum computers might help understand the secrets of elementary particle physics.

Who:
Christian Bauer is a Senior scientist and the head of the Theory Group in the Physics Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After his undergraduate education in Germany he obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto, and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego and the California Institute of Technology. He has been in Berkeley since 2005. His research is on precision calculations of standard model predictions, and more recently on ways to use Quantum Computing to solve difficult computational problems in particle physics.


Articles and videos about the subject:

https://www.quantum-inspire.com/kbase/introduction-to-quantum-computing

https://medium.com/the-quantum-authority/ice-ice-baby-why-quantum-computers-have-to-be-cold-3a7f777d9728

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/cooling-quantum-computers/#:~:text=Instead%20of%20a%20whole%20rig,electronic%20transition%20in%20the%20atom.

http://www.questlab.us/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_IaVepNDT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCj_BJ6BddM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkiMWrA2Bc


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