Joint Chemistry/Physics event
Monday March 19, 2007
Featuring
Distinguished Lecturer:
Professor
Carlos R. Stroud, Jr.
(Professor of Optics and Professor of Physics,
and Director of the Center for Quantum Information,
The Institute of Optics University of Rochester)
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4.00 - 5.00 |
Lasers
and Optics as Enabling Technologies session
with undergraduates in Beury Hall 160; a
joint session with SPS, ACS and possibly
Engineering student societies
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| 6.00 - 7.00
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Reception
in Beury Lobby outside Beury 160
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| 7.00 - 8.00 |
Public
Lecture, Beury 160
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Carlos R. Stroud
University of Rochester
Quantum
Weirdness: Technology of the Future?
Abstract
We will explore the three features
of quantum mechanics that are often characterized
as weird: complementarity, superposition
and entanglement. Each will be explained
in terms of simple examples and animations
with minimal use of mathematics. The
promise of a quantum technological revolution
including much faster computers, completely
secure communication, quantum teleportation
and an as yet undiscovered quantum weirdness
device for every pocket will be discussed.
Along the way we will find that quantum
mechanics can be entertaining, and perhaps
even fun.
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| 12 -12.30 |
Graduate
student Pizza Lunch in BA 108 and Lobby
(open to all interested graduate students)
and BA 106 from 12.30 to 1.30pm
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| 12.30-1.30 |
Graduate
student career development session in
BA 106
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| For More info
contact:
Professor Marjatta Lyyra
Temple University
Physics Department
1900 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6082
Tel. 215-204-3776
Fax:215-204-5652 http://www.temple.edu/molecular_optics/
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