Quantum lecture

dahamsta

Nerdy I know, but anyone going to the lecture on quantum next Thursday?

http://www.ucc.ie/en/NewsandEvents/PressReleases/Headline,29766,en.html

adam

deRanged

I'll be at it.
I'm actually in two of the groups that are involved (CUC and BCRI) so I'll be working at it (taking photos and trying to rig the draw so I win the ipod)

Incidentally, there's a video ipod to be won, I think everyone who attends goes into the draw.

Fysh

Possibly the nerdiest way ever of suggesting beers, adam, but sounds somewhat like a plan. Wouldn't mind going along myself, and the notion of a quiet beer or two afterwards might well tempt a few others along as well....

pro_gnostic_8

dahamsta wrote:

anyone going to the lecture on quantum next Thursday?

Have a heart, willya! I'm still trying to get to grips with the intricacies of Windows 95!

Any lectures in the Boole on how to "cut-and-paste" or "print-screen" etc and other such mysteries?

Jack B. Badd

Hrmmm...physics, you say? Interesting. I could be persuaded to visit my old Alma Mater, work permitting.

Blitzkrieger

Sounds interesting. It's been a long time since I've read anything about physics and I only ever read enough to realise how little I know. I'll be the one at the back with my brain dribbling out of my ears....

pro_gnostic_8

The seminar is not strictly physics, as I understand it.
The lecture is on Quantum Computing -- computational developments at the molecular level, which some scientists believe is an achievable posit in the not too distant future.
A Quantum Computer, if one is built will change I.T. and the world irrevocably due to it's speed, computational power and multi-calculation ability.
That's my understanding of it anyway :rolleyes: .

Should be a very interesting lecture. Marinescu (the guest speaker ) is one of the leading researchers in this field.

deRanged

pro_gnostic_8 wrote:

Marinescu (the guest speaker ) is one of the leading researchers in this field.

Indeed he is, he's written a book or two on the subject. He's also a very
good speaker and friendly guy.

The lecture is being pitched at non-university people - so you don't need a knowledge of physics, computers or maths to come along.

Of course if you are into one of the fields, you can ask complicated questions

dudara

It will make a huge difference if they can develop a suitable system for storing the entangled states. It's like power generation by fusion methods, a great idea in theory but a little hard to put into practice.

Essentially a quantum computer will not store information in the same way as a regular computer which stores information in a digital format, ie 1s and 0s. Entangled states allow for the possibility of storage in other ways. This will theoretically result in great increases in processing power.

Have fun at the lecture. Thankfully I haven't had to do any serious quantum physics since 2000 and I plan to keep it that way!

dahamsta

Shall we say 8pm at the College Road gate? I didn't actually plan on pints afterwards, but I'm sure my arm could be twisted...

adam

Blitzkrieger

pro_gnostic_8 wrote:

The lecture is on Quantum Computing

Wow! - imagine the possibilties for donkey pron in the future!

+ say bb to public key encryption too.....

Fysh

Supercold atoms may be used to store light pulses

Not sure if this will tie into the entanglement problem, but interesting to see nonetheless. I foresee brain-dribblage happening to me too, but what the hell...

dahamsta

Kudos to Peter, who replied to my post on CLUG thusly:

I'm afraid I'm entangled that night.

hunnymonster

I'd love to go to this lecture but I'm working next thursday :-(

pro_gnostic_8

Blitzkrieger wrote:

Wow! - imagine the possibilties for donkey pron in the future!

+ say bb to public key encryption too.....

I'm finding it hard to conclude whether the above post of yours was a smart-ass reply or not.
Please clarify if it was the former was your intention .......... then we can discuss further on here.

Pron - donkey or otherwise - might be an obsession of your's but is of damn all interest to me.

Blitzkrieger

I wub donkeys.

Vaguely smart-ass. Just about every advancement lately seems to have been utilised by the porn industry before anyone else. Just wait and see....

Fysh

Blitzkrieger wrote:

Just about every advancement lately seems to have been utilised by the porn industry before anyone else. Just wait and see....

True enough, although it's changing...can't help but find that particular story hilarious, personally.

Tree

Awwww, i cant make it

So far as i know the ucc physoc are arranging a heap of lectures soon enough, including one on the history of the Crawford observatory in the observatory

Blitzkrieger

Fysh wrote:

can't help but find that particular story hilarious, personally.

lol

I remember reading that algorhythms had already been developed for quantum computers but the article never said what they were intended for. I imagine they'd be for DNA sequencing, cryptography, SETI and stuff like that. I'd put money on the first commercially available application being donkey porn though – there's just too many people with too much time on their hands.......

dahamsta

Too much what on their hands?

(Just get in there before Fysh. So to speak.)

deRanged

The abstract is available, and there's refreshments from half seven on.

BCRI wrote:

QUANTUM INFORMATION: A GLIMPSE AT THE STRANGE AND INTRIGUING
FUTURE OF INFORMATION

SPEAKER: PROF. DAN C. MARINESCU, SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY
OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, ORLANDO ([url]HTTP://WWW.CS.UCF.EDU/~DCM/[/url])

TIME & DATE: 8PM ON THURSDAY, 15TH FEBRUARY 2007 (REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
FROM 7.30PM)

LOCATION: BOOLE LECTURE THEATRE 3, UCC

ABSTRACT
During the last few decades of the twentieth century the world has
witnessed the development of the microprocessor, high-speed optical
communications, high density storage technologies and the widespread use
of sensors. Today, we are able to collect enormous volumes of
information, process and transmit it at high speed, store it on digital
media and share it using the World Wide Web. This information revolution
profoundly affects our daily life. Surely George Boole would be very
surprised to see how the seeds he planted in his 1847 pamphlet
"Mathematical Analysis of Logic" have flourished.

Today, we are approaching the limits of our current technology and
information processing is facing new challenges that limit our ability
to build faster and smaller computing machines; we have a hard time
ensuring security of communications; we are overwhelmed by the volume of
information flowing to our desktop, and it is increasingly difficult to
tell the important information from the irrelevant.

One promising way of tacking these problems is Quantum Computing.

Quantum information has special and wondrous properties and the payoff
of mastering quantum information could be equally astounding since, in
principle, quantum computers will be able to solve problems that cannot
be solved with today's computers.

In this talk Prof Marinescu will be exploring the strange world of
Quantum Computing and will be asking if Quantum Computing will be the
way forward in the 21st Century.

dahamsta

Has anyone confirmed they're going apart from mise?

Blitzkrieger

Fysh? I was actually planing on following this :

dahamsta wrote:

Shall we say 8pm at the College Road gate? I didn't actually plan on pints afterwards, but I'm sure my arm could be twisted../QUOTE]

I don't know my way around UCC and I don't want to end up in those dodgy toilets....

dahamsta

I didn't know there was dodgy toilets. Here's a map of the campus:

http://www.ucc.ie/en/VisitorstoUCC/Transportmapsandparking/Maps/Externalimage,692,en.pdf

And general info about travel and stuff:

http://www.ucc.ie/en/VisitorstoUCC/Transportmapsandparking/

And a Live Local map.

http://url.ie/2xc

Are we being social and having "refreshments" or being ignorant and turning up late?

adam

Fysh

Yeah, I should be along as well. Not sure bout anyone else though, and I suspect that we should do pints sometime soon. We can discuss it over a refreshing beverage after the lecture though

Edit:
The dodgy toilets thing was from the recent post about under-18s being banned from the city centre, taken from the UCC student paper. the front page had an article about some of the UCC toilets being a popular cruising spot for gay men in Cork....

dahamsta

You'll want to meet outside the toilets then?

Fysh

In the toilets, thanks. Before I get in something else.

Damnit, crudity strikes again!

Blitzkrieger

dahamsta wrote:

Are we being social and having "refreshments" or being ignorant and turning up late?

I was planning on letting how long it takes me to park decide. I was going to try for the end of Western road somewhere about 7:30, then walk from there. I know I shouldn't be bringing the car if we're going for drinks afterwards but I'll make up for it by drinking loads tonight.

Is the lecture in the Boole Library building?

dudara

dahamsta wrote:

I didn't know there was dodgy toilets. Here's a map of the campus:

http://www.ucc.ie/en/VisitorstoUCC/Transportmapsandparking/Maps/Externalimage,692,en.pdf

And general info about travel and stuff:

http://www.ucc.ie/en/VisitorstoUCC/Transportmapsandparking/

And a Live Local map.

http://url.ie/2xc

Are we being social and having "refreshments" or being ignorant and turning up late?

adam

Wow Adam, based on all that info, I'd swear you were planning a trip to deepest Africa or the like

deRanged

Blitzkrieger wrote:

Is the lecture in the Boole Library building?

it's in the Boole Basement, under the library. The entrance is around the corner from the library. There will be signs up pointing the way.

The barriers on campus will be up by 7 so there's a good chance of getting parking on campus.

dahamsta

UCC isn't in deepest Africa?

Let's say 7:45 at the gate so, since the lecture is on at 8pm.

adam