BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Canada/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20220411T191004Z UID:C025EF06-42EF-4196-A6D2-C784A615AD3E DTSTART;TZID=Canada/Eastern:20220407T130000 DTEND;TZID=Canada/Eastern:20220407T143000 DESCRIPTION:Abstract. Programmable optical processors are promising structu res for ultrafast and energy efficient computation in classic and quantum photonics. These processors efficiently perform the vector-matrix multipli cation extensively used in artificial intelligence and machine learning ta sks. Due to the inherent parallelism presents in optics in contrast with s equential operations in electronics\, optical processors offer better ener gy efficiency compared to their electronic counterparts. Today\, deep lear ning is facing growing computational demand limiting its development if we continue using conventional electronic processors. Energy efficient compu tational accelerators fabricated in silicon photonic are candidates to mee t the computational demands of future machine learning and deep learning t asks.\n\nProgrammable optical processors also pave the way for integrated optical quantum computing. Single photons are excellent candidates for qua ntum computing due to their noise and decoherence-free nature. One can gen erate optical qubits by encoding single photons in one degree of freedom s uch as polarization or path. Optical integrated quantum computing requires quantum logic gates to manipulate these qubits. Quantum logic gates are r epresented by unitary matrices\, such that a 2n × 2n unitary matrix multi plication is identical to an n-qubit gate. Therefore\, a programmable opti cal processor capable of performing unitary matrix multiplication on singl e photons works as an arbitrary optical integrated quantum gate.\n\nSpeake r(s): Dr. Kaveh Mojaver\, \n\nRoom: TR0070\, Bldg: Lorne M. Trottier Engin eering Building\, McGill University\, 3630 University Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/310651 LOCATION:Room: TR0070\, Bldg: Lorne M. Trottier Engineering Building\, McGi ll University\, 3630 University Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada\, Virt ual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/310651 ORGANIZER:odile@ieee.org SEQUENCE:6 SUMMARY:Silicon Photonic Programmable Optical Processors for Machine Learni ng and Optical Quantum Computing URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/310651 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong><em>Abstract. </em></strong>Progra mmable optical processors are promising structures for ultrafast and energ y efficient computation in classic and quantum photonics. These processors efficiently perform the vector-matrix multiplication extensively used in artificial intelligence and machine learning tasks. Due to the inherent pa rallelism presents in optics in contrast with sequential operations in ele ctronics\, optical processors offer better energy efficiency compared to t heir electronic counterparts. Today\, deep learning is facing growing comp utational demand limiting its development if we continue using conventiona l electronic processors. Energy efficient computational accelerators fabri cated in silicon photonic are candidates to meet the computational demands of future machine learning and deep learning tasks.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Progra mmable optical processors also pave the way for integrated optical quantum computing. Single photons are excellent candidates for quantum computing due to their noise and decoherence-free nature. One can generate optical q ubits by encoding single photons in one degree of freedom such as polariza tion or path. Optical integrated quantum computing requires quantum logic gates to manipulate these qubits. Quantum logic gates are represented by u nitary matrices\, such that a 2<sup>n</sup> &times\; 2<sup>n</sup> unitary matrix multiplication is identical to an n-qubit gate. Therefore\, a prog rammable optical processor capable of performing unitary matrix multiplica tion on single photons works as an arbitrary optical integrated quantum ga te.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR