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Current electronics and communications rely on electrons and binary computing. In order to process more information faster, new technologies are being developed through quantum physics. You might think this is a branch of science utterly removed from your daily lives, but you are in fact already probably using technology that has been improved by our knowledge of quantum physics. Computers, semi-conductors, lasers all use quantum technology, but what about the future? Come to this month's science pub to learn how you can play a part in the quantum revolution.
About our speakers:
James Whitfield graduated from Morehouse College (B.S.) and obtained his doctorate in Chemical Physics from Harvard in 2011. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna, he now an Assistant Professor in the  Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. Research interests are focused on novel computing approaches to electronic structure with an emphasis on quantum computation.  Interests include the theoretical limitations of quantum simulation, improving quantum algorithms and addressing the longstanding question of what today's quantum computation can tell us about fermionic systems of applied interest.