'Hacking nature’s computers: exploring quantum computation with organic molecules' with Prof Vlatko Vedral

Past Event

Date
02 March 2017, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Location
Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

Molecular computer
© Robert Lettow

Professor Vlatko Vedral, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Bio-Inspired Quantum Technologies will explore the possibility of basing quantum technologies on organic molecules, namely using natural systems to support quantum bit for quantum computation.

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About the speaker

Vlatko Vedral is Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Bio-Inspired Quantum Technologies at the University of Oxford and Professor of Theoretical Quantum Optics within the Department of Physics.

Throughout his career, he has held a number of visiting professorships at different international institutions. He has published over 200 papers on quantum physics and has written two textbooks, as well as a popular science book, “Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information”. Vedral studied theoretical physics at Imperial College, London, from where he also received his PhD on Quantum Information Theory of Entanglement.