<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi all,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There will be a theoretical chemistry seminar TODAY by Prof. Alan Aspuru-Guzik at Harvard University. The talk title and abstract can be found below. Hope to see you there!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"A decade of quantum computing for quantum chemistry"</font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Alan Aspuru-Guzik</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Professor</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Harvard University</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The last time I spoke about quantum computing and chemistry to a theoretical chemistry audience in the Boston area was at this very same seminar back in 2006 or 2007. In this seminar, I will give an update on what has happened in the last 10 years since the original full configuration interaction quantum chemistry proposal (Aspuru-Guzik, et al., Science, 2005). I will give a 2-hour talk (with more details than usual) of why large-enough quantum computers will be relevant, perhaps game-changing for chemistry. I will discuss several ways of solving the electronic structure problem in quantum computers, and also their relevant experimental realizations, either proposed or actually carried out in small quantum devices. An important point relevant to these, is their scaling and potential for realization in the near future assuming quantum computers continue to develop rapidly. I will discuss this interesting aspect. I will also briefly discuss applications in optimization problems (e.g. folding proteins) and quantum dynamics. If time permits, I will discuss the use of our recent proposed Boson Sampling experimental setup to simulate molecular vibrionic spectra. </font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Michael Mavros<div>Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div></div>
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