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Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable
When and where
Date and time
Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:00 - 20:30 +08
Location
Science Centre Singapore 15 Science Centre Rd Singapore, 609081 Singapore
Description
Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable
This talk will discuss how computational complexity---the study of what can and can't be feasibly computed ---has been interacting with physics in interesting and unexpected ways. This will include a crash course about computer science's P vs. NP problem, as well as about the capabilities and limits of quantum computers. It will also include critical discussion of speculative models of computation that would go even beyond quantum computers, using (for example) special relativity and time travel to the past.
About the speaker
Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and an Associate Professor of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests centre around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers, and more generally, on computational complexity theory.
This event is organised by the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore in partnership with the Science Centre Singapore.
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More about us
The Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) is a national Research Centre of Excellence in Singapore. It brings together physicists, computer scientists and engineers to do basic research on quantum physics and to build devices based on quantum phenomena. Experts in this new discipline of quantum technologies are applying their discoveries in computing, communications and sensing.
The Centre was established in December 2007 with support from Singapore’s National Research Foundation and Ministry of Education. CQT is hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and also has staff at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
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