Science Sundays – Prof. Paul Kwiat

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

“The Quantum Information Revolution”

More than a century after Einstein’s revolutionary suggestion that light is composed of particles, the quantum information revolution seeks to use the almost magical properties of nonclassical physics to enable new feats in information processing that would be difficult or impossible without the quantum advantage. Kwiat, Bardeen Chair in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, will discuss how quantum randomness, superposition, and entanglement can be used to realize perfectly secure cryptography, ultra-fast computation, and completely non-invasive photography. Time/appetites permitting, Kwiat may also give a brief lesson in Quantum Cooking.