[Crib-list] TODAY: SPEAKER: Jarrod McClean (Harvard) -- CRIBB Seminar -- Friday, April 3, 2015 -- TIME: 12:00 Noon in Building 32, Room 124 (Stata Center)

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T O D A Y . . .


  	    COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR



DATE:		FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2015
TIME:		12:00 Noon
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124   (Stata Center -32 Vassar Street)

    Pizza and beverages will be provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-124.


TITLE:		Using quantum computers to change the way we study chemical problems

SPEAKER:	Jarrod McClean   (Harvard University)


ABSTRACT:

At a glance, the Schrodinger equation has offered the opportunity to
design and predict chemical processes from little more than the solution
of a large eigenvalue problem, the solution of which is the focus of
quantum chemistry. Unfortunately, getting very accurate predictions has
been prohibitively expensive on conventional computers.  Quantum computing
offers promising new solutions to problems faced in quantum chemistry. In
this talk, I will introduce some of the methods used in traditional
electronic structure calculations and their limitations. I will then show
how one can use a quantum computer to lift many of these limitations and
perform exact computations efficiently for many instances. This will be
followed by recent advances in this area, including a relatively new
algorithm that was implemented on a quantum photonic device designed to
maximize the utilization of quantum resources through co-design.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


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Beyond Seminar' (CRIBB), please visit...

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