Join the Department of Physice for a public talk entitled听Quantum Learning Quantum: Quantum Computers and AI听
Professor Gerard Milburn, Quantum Fellow at the UK鈥檚 NQCC, willl share his vision of how quantum computers and AI could transform science.
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Galileo鈥檚 great insight was that we can learn about the world by building devices that reveal simple, reproducible phenomena. We push on the world, and the world pushes back. More than a century ago, scientists discovered that some experiments produced a startling result: the world is quantum.
Quantum theory is famously strange, yet we now understand it well enough to put it to work. Quantum technologies aim to harness and control the quantum world in ways that can make us wealthier, healthier and safer. In this talk, Professor Milburn will describe the quantum technologies that are already beginning to change our lives, including quantum computing. Looking ahead, he will explore how the combination of quantum computing and embedded artificial intelligence could create 鈥渟elf-driving laboratories鈥 that accelerate scientific discovery and open the door to technologies beyond our current imagination.
The speaker
Professor Gerard Milburn FRS听is one of the world鈥檚 leading quantum physicists and a pioneer of quantum computing research. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has helped shape the development of technologies that harness the unusual properties of the quantum world to process information in entirely new ways. His work has contributed to many of the foundational ideas behind modern quantum computing and quantum technologies.
A Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor Milburn has held senior leadership roles at major international research centres and is currently Quantum Fellow at the UK鈥檚 National Quantum Computing Centre, where he helps guide the UK鈥檚 quantum computing programme and its future applications in science and society.
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Format: Main talk starts at 7pm. Refreshments will be served before the talk from 6:00pm. The audience is invited to participate and ask questions following the talk.
This event has been organised by the Hubbard Theory Consortium