Nokia Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture - The Future of Quantum Technologies: The Second Quantum Revolution
In honor of Claude Shannon – the father of information theory and arguably of all communications and networked systems – Bell Labs has created the Shannon Luminary Lecture Series and Award, to explore all topics of high impact and relevance to the future of human existence, with an annual series of ten talks by the leading visionary researchers, developers, thinkers and entrepreneurs from all fields of scientific, technological, engineering, mathematical, or related artistic endeavor.
The February 2019 lecture will be given by Alain Aspect, a phycisist, distinguished scientist and professor at Ecole Polytechnique and Laboratoire Charles Fabry, with a career of sustained accomplishments in fundamental physics.
In his Shannon Luminary lecture, Alain Aspect will speak on the future of quantum technologies. Alain was one of the first to experimentally confirm quantum entanglement, a bizarre area of quantum mechanics that perplexed Einstein and many others. This understanding has led to applications of quantum mechanics beyond the lab scale, towards quantum computing and provably secure communications. Alain Aspect has made breakthroughs in laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensates, and atom lasers.
The presentation will be held in the Hamming Innovation Hall on the Murray Hill Bell Labs Campus.
Prior awardees include Eric Schmidt, Irwin Jacobs, Bob Metcalfe, Amber Case, Henry Markram, Zhenan Bao, Yann LeCun, David Eagleman, Stephen Friend, Brian Collins, Vint Cerf, Sandy Pentland, and Rodney Brooks.
As space is limited, please confirm your attendance as soon as possible. Registration will close as soon as the capacity of the Hamming Innovation Hall has been reached.
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For general information about the Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture Series, please visit:
https://www.bell-labs.com/programs/shannon-luminary-lecture-series/
If you are unable to attend after you have registered then please contact info@bell-labs.com with a copy to avw@ieee.org, to cancel such that seats can be made available to others.
This event is co-sponsored by IEEE METSAC and the IEEE North Jersey/New York Section Information Theory Society Chapter.
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- Date: 07 Feb 2019
- Time: 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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- 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ
- Murray Hill, New Jersey
- United States 07974
- Building: Bell Laboratories, Nokia, Hamming Innovation Hall
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Adriaan J. van Wijngaarden, IEEE METSAC Chair (avw@ieee.org)
Chair, IEEE North Jersey/New York Information Theory Chapter - Co-sponsored by METSAC, IT
- Starts 15 September 2018 12:00 AM
- Ends 07 February 2019 12:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Alain Aspect
The Future of Quantum Technologies: The Second Quantum Revolution
Biography:
Alain Aspect is a senior researcher at CNRS (Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique d'Orsay – Institut d'Optique/CNRS/Université Paris Sud 11), professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, and member of the French Academy of Sciences. Alain Aspect is widely recognized for his experimental test of Bell’s inequalities, carried out in 1981-1982 at the Institut d’Optique in Orsay, France. This work is considered to be part of the foundations on which Quantum Information Science has been built, and is known to a general audience as “the Aspect experiments”. Bell’s inequalities, proposed by the late John Bell in 1964, offer a way to distinguish the predictions of quantum mechanics from those of a large set of alternative theories, known as “local hidden-variable theories”, an example of which is classical (non-quantum) physics. Such tests require measurements to be made on photons moving apart in opposite directions to look for correlations between some of their physical properties, for instance their polarizations. The fact that the measurements are made some distance apart from each other is essential, because to derive Bell’s inequalities one needs to assume “locality”, combined with the fact that information cannot move at faster than the speed of light.
For more details, please check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Aspect
Agenda
| 14:00-15:30 |
The Future of Quantum Technologies: The Second Quantum Revolution |
| Alain Aspect, Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry |