11:10 am-12:00 pm, October 3
In this talk, I'll describe what big wins quantum computers give us, where they fail to help, and what we don't yet know (by far the biggest category!) I'll also briefly survey the current state of real-world implementations - where we're at, and what kinds of roadblocks might slow or stop progress.
9:15 am-9:40 am, October 4
I'll start this talk by describing how a large group of mathematicians have recently used blogs, wikis, and an open source style collaboration to attack and rapidly solve a difficult open mathematical problem. This story is part of a much larger story about how networked collaborative technologies are changing the process of scientific discovery. I'll briefly survey some of those changes, and describe some of the cultural blocks inhibiting many scientists from taking full advantage.
Biographies: Michael Nielsen
Michael Nielsen is currently writing a book about how online tools are causing a radical change in the way scientific discoveries are made. In a past life, he was a theoretical physicist, and one of the pioneers of quantum computing. He co-authored the standard text on quantum computing (one of the ten most cited books ever in physics), discovered one of the fundamental theorems governing quantum entanglement, and performed one of the first quantum teleportation experiments. He ran a research centre at the University of Queensland in Australia, and was a Senior Faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He’s fascinated by the prospects for online collaboration and machine learning. His next project will be a technology start-up.
