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Silicon-based quantum computing:the path from the laboratory to industrial manufacture

In this talk I will give an overview of the development of silicon-based quantum computing (QC), from the basic science through to its prospects for industrial-scale commercialization based on CMOS manufacturing. I begin…

11-12-201911-12-2019

With: Prof. Andrew Dzurak, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

In silico discovery and design of novel materials

18-11-201918-11-2019

With: Prof. Oleg Yazyev, Chair of Computational Condensed Matter Physics, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Physics of Morphogenesis

11-11-201911-11-2019

With: Prof. Boris Shraiman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Route to Commercial Fusion — Bringing Down the Cost

04-11-201904-11-2019

With: Prof. Steven Cowley, Director Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Direct Multipixel Imaging of an exo-Earth with a Solar Gravitational Lens Telescope

21-10-201921-10-2019

With: Prof. Slava Turyshev, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / CALTECH
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics

03-06-201903-06-2019

With: Prof. Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Why does actomyosin contract ?

27-05-201927-05-2019

With: Dr. Martin Lenz, Senior CNRS researcher, Université Paris-Sud
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Fusion energy, stellarators, and the Wendelstein 7-X project

13-05-201913-05-2019

With: Prof. Per Helander, Max Planck Institut, Greifswald
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

From Bell’s inequalities to quantum technologies

06-05-201906-05-2019

With: Prof. Philippe Grangier, Institut d’Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves

29-04-201929-04-2019

With: Prof. Vitor Cardoso, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Campus Lecture – Our New International System of Units

15-04-201915-04-2019

With: Prof. Klaus von Klitzing, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Nobel Prize in Physics 1985
Place and room: Rolex Learning Center, Forum
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Science, Reality, and Credibility

08-04-201908-04-2019

With:  Saul Perlmutter, 2011 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
Place and room: BC 420, BC 410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin films

12-11-201812-11-2018

With: Dr. André Thiaville, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Use of the Crooks Fluctuation Theorem to Study the Inter-domain Folding Cooperativity of a Protein

08-10-201808-10-2018

With: Prof. Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Fingerprints of electron correlation in materials: Challenges and progress of electronic structure theory

01-10-201801-10-2018

With: Dr. Lucia Reining, Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

(Sub)-nanofluidics with two-dimensional materials

24-09-201824-09-2018

With: Dr. Slaven Garaj, National University of Singapore
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Scientific Opportunities with SwissFEL

14-05-201814-05-2018

With: Dr. Rafael Abela, Paul Scherrer Institute
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Quantum and nonlocal phenomena in plasmonic nanostructures

30-04-201830-04-2018

With: Prof. N. Asger Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment

09-04-201809-04-2018

With: Prof. Klaus Kirch, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen / ETHZ
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Entanglement and tensor networks in quantum many body physics

19-03-201819-03-2018

With: Prof. Frank Verstraete, Ghent University
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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