Free talk + Q&A by Florian Unseld B.Eng. and Vieri Mattei B.Eng.

What is computing going to look like in 10 years? What about 100 years?

The exciting collaboration between mathematicians, physicists and engineers all around the world is leading to the development of a completely new paradigm in computation and information: quantum computing.

By exploiting quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement, quantum computers will be able to outperform the largest supercomputers present today, tackling problems that are intractable to classical computing with enormous speedups.

Amongst the most promising applications of quantum computers are:

cracking of current encryption protocols;

faster search algorithms;

optimisation problems in many different fields of engineering and science;

development of better drugs and simulation of chemical systems;

and many others

The talk will give an introduction to the basic concepts that allow quantum computers to work, as well as the physical laws that can be manipulated to achieve this goal. Afterwards, more in depth points such as error correction and the classical control patforms for the quantum chips will be discussed.

More specifically, the presentation will be divided in the following sub-sections, each lasting 20 minutes:

Introduction to Quantum Information

Qubit physical realisation

System scaling and error correction

Control microarchitecture

A 10 minute Q&A session will be held after each sub-section.