{"id":95,"date":"2012-06-28T16:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/?p=95"},"modified":"2012-06-28T18:12:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T18:12:24","slug":"scott-aaronson-visits-quisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quisco.org.uk\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Scott Aaronson Visits QUISCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re delighted to announce that Prof. Aaronson will be visiting us from July 9 till July 13 and will present a series of lectures on quantum complexity theory covering topics on complexity of linear optics and information content of quantum states.<\/p>\n<p>The venue is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/informatics\/about\/forum\/\">School of Informatics<\/a>, University of Edinburgh, Room 4.33\/4.31 on Tuesday,\u00a0 Wednesday\u00a0 and Thursday July 10, 11 and 12 from 15:00 till 16:30.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you can all attend this unique rejuvenating QUISCO meetings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><br \/>\nScott Aaronson is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.\u00a0 He received his PhD in computer science from University of California, Berkeley and did postdocs at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Waterloo.\u00a0 Scott&#8217;s research interests center around fundamental limits on what can efficiently be computed in the physical world.\u00a0 This has entailed studying quantum computing, the most powerful model of computation we have based on known physical theory.\u00a0 He also writes a popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\">blog<\/a>, and is the creator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complexityzoo.com\">Complexity Zoo<\/a>, an online encyclopedia of computational complexity theory.\u00a0 He is the recipient of NSF&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/aaronson-nsf-award-0308.html\">Alan T. Waterman Award<\/a> for 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" class=\"mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<pre>I'm delighted to announce that Prof. Aaronson will be visiting us from July\r\n9 till July 13 and will present a series of lectures on quantum complexity\r\ntheory covering topics on complexity of linear optics and information\r\ncontent of quantum states.\r\n\r\nThe venue is the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Room 3.44\r\non Tuesday,  Wednesday  and Thursday July 10, 11 and 12 from 15:00 till\r\n16:30.\r\n\r\nI hope you can all attend this unique rejuvenating QUISCO meetings,\r\nElham\r\n\r\nBIO\r\nScott Aaronson is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering\r\nand Computer Science at MIT.  He received his PhD in computer science\r\nfrom University of California, Berkeley and did postdocs at the\r\nInstitute for Advanced Study and the University of Waterloo.  Scott's\r\nresearch interests center around fundamental limits on what can efficiently\r\nbe computed in the physical world.  This has entailed studying\r\nquantum computing, the most powerful model of computation we have based\r\non known physical theory.  He also writes a popular\r\nblog&lt;http:\/\/(www.scottaaronson.com\/blog)&gt;,\r\nand is the creator of the Complexity Zoo &lt;http:\/\/(www.complexityzoo.com)&gt;,\r\nan online encyclopedia of computational complexity theory.  He is the\r\nrecipient of NSF's Alan T. Waterman\r\nAward&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/aaronson-nsf-award-0308.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/aaronson-nsf-award-0308.html<\/a>&gt;for\r\n2012.<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re delighted to announce that Prof. Aaronson will be visiting us from July 9 till July 13 and will present a series of lectures on quantum complexity theory covering topics on complexity of linear optics and information content of quantum states. 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