15-01-2021
Scott Aaronson, professor, and researcher at the University of Texas, is the next guest of the 9th edition of the Distinguished Lecture Series, which will take place on January 26, at 3 pm, via zoom.
Awarded in 2012 with the Alan T. Waterman Award, known as the most distinguished honorary award granted by the United States to scientists under the age of 35, Scott Aaronson stands out in the area of Computer Science for his research in capabilities and limits of quantum computers and computational complexity theory more generally.
In this lecture, the researcher will make an accessible introduction to quantum computation, addressing what types of problems are currently solved by quantum computing, how to observe their results using classical systems, and what new challenges are to be faced in the future. The expert will illustrate an application for quantum supremacy based on boson sampling that can be used to guarantee cryptocurrency computer cybersecurity, which will soon be demonstrated by Google.
The joint initiative of the Department of Informatics and the NOVA Laboratory of Computer Science and Informatics at NOVA School of Science and Technology has brought some of the most influential researchers in this field to campus since 2012. Among the speakers of the Distinguished Lectures series are Hiroshi Ishii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Barbara Liskov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, USA.
