UCL EEE Mildner Memorial Lecture and Research Poster Open Day 2016

The Mildner Memorial Research Poster Open Day and Lecture 2016:

“What's next after Moore's Law: Quantum Computing”

Professor John Martinis, Google and University of California, Santa Barbara

PROGRAMME

2.00pm Registration - Main Quad Pavillion

2.30pm Research Poster Session and Tech Demonstrations - North Cloisters, Wilkins Building and Main Quad Pavillion

4.00pm Reception - North Cloisters, Wilkins Building

5.30pm Lecture - Cruciform LT1, Wilkins Building

This event is kindly sponsored by:

Abstract

As microelectronics technology nears the end of exponential growth over time, known as Moore’s law, there is a renewed interest in new computing paradigms. I will discuss recent research at UCSB on superconducting quantum bits, as well as our recent start at Google to build a useful quantum computer to solve machine learning problems. Two qubit experiments will be highlighted, one to simulate a chemical reaction that finds a cross section, and a second to extend the lifetime of a qubit state using quantum error correction.

About the 2016 Mildner Memorial Lecturer

John Martinis attended U.C. Berkeley from 1976 to 1987. His PhD thesis was a pioneering demonstration of quantum-bit states in superconductors. After postdoctoral research at CEA in France, he joined NIST Boulder where he developed electron counting devices and invented x-ray microcalorimeters. In 2004 he moved to U.C. Santa Barbara where he continued work on quantum computation. In 2014 he was awarded the London Prize for low-temperature physics research. Last year he joined the Google quantum-AI team, and now heads an effort to build a useful quantum computer.