Public talk by Prof. Gerard Milburn, Quantum Fellow at the UK’s NQCC

In this talk, Prof. Gerard Milburn, Quantum Fellow at the UK’s NQCC, will share his vision of how quantum computers and AI could transform science.

Galileo’s great insight was that we can learn about the world by building devices that reveal simple, reproducible phenomena. We push on the world, and the world pushes back. More than a century ago, scientists discovered that some experiments produced a startling result: the world is quantum.

Quantum theory is famously strange, yet we now understand it well enough to put it to work. Quantum technologies aim to harness and control the quantum world in ways that can make us wealthier, healthier and safer. In this talk, Professor Milburn will describe the quantum technologies that are already beginning to change our lives, including quantum computing. Looking ahead, he will explore how the combination of quantum computing and embedded artificial intelligence could create “self-driving laboratories” that accelerate scientific discovery and open the door to technologies beyond our current imagination.

The speaker: 

Professor Gerard Milburn FRS is one of the world’s leading quantum physicists and a pioneer of quantum computing research. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has helped shape the development of technologies that harness the unusual properties of the quantum world to process information in entirely new ways. His work has contributed to many of the foundational ideas behind modern quantum computing and quantum technologies.

A Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor Milburn has held senior leadership roles at major international research centres and is currently Quantum Fellow at the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre, where he helps guide the UK’s quantum computing programme and its future applications in science and society.

Venue:

Imperial College London’s Blackett Lecture Theatre in South Kensington, London

Prof. Gerard Milburn, Quantum Fellow at the UK's NQCC