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SUMMARY:High Performance Quantum Computing
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200205T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nIn less than a decade the field of quantum comput
 ing has been transformed from an area with mostly academic activities to o
 wn with major investments by most major tech companies. This was triggered
  both by advances in qubit technology and in quantum algorithms. In this t
 alk I will discuss the challenges involved in identifying and developing a
 pplications for quantum computers\, and guidelines that help us identify t
 he most promising ones. I will present what I see as the most likely short
  term and mid term applications of quantum computing. I will end by showin
 g that quantum computing already generates value today\, through quantum i
 nspired approaches. These are quantum algorithms implemented on classical 
 HPC hardware that outperform the state of the art of classical methods kno
 wn before - with applications to health care\, logistics\, chemistry and o
 ther areas.\n\nBio:\n\nMatthias Troyer is a Distinguished Scientist at Mic
 rosoft and affiliate faculty at the University of Washington . He is a Fel
 low of the American Physical Society\, Vice President of the Aspen Center 
 for Physics\, a recipient of the Rahman Prize for Computational Physics of
  the American Physical Society for “for pioneering numerical work in man
 y seemingly intractable areas of quantum many body physics and for providi
 ng efficient sophisticated computer codes to the community” and recipien
 t of the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. He has received his PhD i
 n 1994 from ETH Zurich in Switzerland\, spent three years as postdoc at th
 e University of Tokyo\, and has later been professor of Computational Phys
 ics at ETH Zurich until joining Microsoft’s quantum computing program 
 at the beginning of 2017. At Microsoft he works on quantum architecture a
 nd leads the development of applications for quantum computers. His broade
 r research interests span from high performance computing and quantum comp
 uting to the simulations of quantum devices and island ecosystems.\n\n \n
 \n \n\nhttps://events.chpc.ac.za/event/80/
LOCATION:CHPC Lecture Room
URL:https://events.chpc.ac.za/event/80/
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