Dalhousie physics professor Kimberley HallDalhousie physics professor Kimberley Hall will discuss her research into quantum computing Friday on the UWindsor campus.

Physicist to describe approaches to quantum computing

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize technology in areas of great—everything from cryptography to database search to software validation, says Kimberley Hall.

“Progress has occurred at a breathtaking pace in recent years, laying the ground work for a scalable, solid state quantum computing architecture,” says Dr. Hall, physics professor and Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast Science at Dalhousie University.

She will discuss this progress and her own research in a free public lecture, “Quantum Computing at the Speed of Light,” Friday, March 21, at 1:45 p.m. in Vanier Hall’s Oak Room.

Her appearance in Windsor, sponsored by the UWindsor physics department, is part of the Canadian Association of Physicists’ 2014 student lecture tour, which features presentations spanning a wide range of current topics in physics.

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