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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

Monday, March 10, 2014 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Photo of Samuel Lomonaco in St. Mark's Square

Samuel J. Lomonaco

"The Strange World of Quantum Computing"

ABSTRACT -- Quantum computers have the potential to greatly increase computational power beyond the capabilities of conventional computers by exploiting the bizarre quantum properties of the subatomic world. This talk will give an introductory overview of quantum computing in an intuitive and conceptual fashion. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics will be assumed.

SPEAKER -- Samuel J. Lomonaco received his PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1964 under the supervision of Ralph H. Fox. Since 1985, he has been a Full Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), serving as Founding Chair of the Computer Science Department 1985-1991. He also currently heads the UMBC Quantum Algorithms Research Group. Prof. Lomonaco is internationally known for his many contributions in both mathematics and computer science.

Dr. Lomonaco's many accomplishments include solving problem 36 of R. H. Fox, a problem that had resisted solution for over 15 years, by creating hyperbolic section representations of knots, by creating GEM complexes, and the movie-movie representation of knots; contributions to the Ada programming language, for which he received an award from the Department of Defense; introducing the American Mathematical Society to the research field of quantum computation and quantum information science by organizing seminars and short courses on quantum computing; and publishing extensively on topology and quantum computation.


Engineering Colloquium home page: https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov