Quantum Computing Seminar

 

About Our Seminar

Quantum Computing seminar is organized by Quantum Computation, Complexity, and Information Group funded by the University Research Enhancement Award.

 

Related Lecture:
Monday, October 26, 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm
Room: Monroe Hall (2115 G St. NW) # 451

Keye Martin

A free object in quantum information theory.


Friday, October 16, 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm
DUQUES HALL (2201 G St. NW),  Room 152

Samuel Lomonaco (UMBC)

A Rosetta Stone for Quantum Computing

Abstract: This talk will give an overview of quantum computing in an intuitive and conceptual fashion. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics will be assumed. The talk will begin with an introduction to the strange world of the quantum. Such concepts as quantum superposition, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the “collapse” of the wave function, and quantum entanglement (i.e., EPR pairs) are introduced. This part of the talk will also be interlaced with an introduction to Dirac notation, Hilbert spaces, unitary transformations, quantum measurement, and the density operator. Simple examples will be given to explain and to illustrate such concepts as quantum measurement, quantum teleportation, quantum dense coding, and the first quantum algorithm, i.e., the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm. The PowerPoint slides for this talk can be found at the URL: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~lomonaco/Lectures.html

About the speaker: Samuel J. Lomonaco is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is internationally known for his many contributions in mathematics and in computer science. His research interests span a wide range of subjects from knot theory, algebraic and differential topology to algebraic coding theory, quantum computation, and symbolic computation. In quantum cryptography, he has shown how quantum information theory can be used to gain a better understanding of eavesdropping with quantum entanglement. In quantum computation, he has shown how Lie groups can be used to solve problems arising in the study of quantum entanglement. In 2000 Professor Lomonoco organized the first American Mathematical Society short course on quantum computation.