ANNOUNCEMENT:     TRIANGLE GEOMETRY-TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

 

DATE:             Friday, October 3, 2003      

 

LOCATION:         Hempfield High School, Room 213 (directions attached)

                  followed by dinner at Gatsby's on Main in Landisville

 

4:30 TALK:        David Lyons, Lebanon Valley College

                  "Problems in quantum entanglement"

 

ABSTRACT: Recent work in quantum information theory shows how physical systems of quantum bits, or qubits, can be harnessed to perform an array of tasks in computing, communications, cryptography and precision measurement which are not possible using existing technology.  Besides many practical engineering problems which must be solved before we can build a quantum computer, there are many interesting mathematical open problems in quantum computation.  Algorithms for quantum computers exploit quantum entanglement, a phenomenon which is at present poorly understood.  In this talk we describe the mathematical model, state some problems in entanglement, and present preliminary results obtained in joint work with Scott Walck.

 

 

EVERYONE WELCOME.

 

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