Chetan Nayak - Utility-Scale Quantum Computers

Talk details

• Date: 3 November 2024
• 1 p.m. (ET)
• Location: Zoom
• Video recording

Talk abstract

From the speaker:

“I will discuss the most likely applications of quantum computers and the corresponding requirements on any quantum computing system that targets these applications.”

Presenter

Chetan Nayak is an American physicist and distinguished professor specializing in condensed matter physics and quantum computing. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is currently a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research focuses on topological phases of matter, high-temperature superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, and periodically-driven quantum systems. Nayak leads quantum hardware development at Microsoft.