by Iliyah | Apr 4, 2018 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dr Simon Friederich – A Rare Universe? The Multiverse Debate Through the Lens of Philosophy How did we get here? How could a universe with such simple physical laws have created something as complex as us? These questions are so fundamental that even after...
by Iliyah | Apr 3, 2018 | Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dr Román Orús – Tensor Networks: Untangling the Mysteries of Quantum Systems For decades, physicists have struggled endlessly with the problem of quantum many-body systems – systems containing multiple quantum particles. Because of quantum properties, the ways...
by Iliyah | Mar 27, 2018 | Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Professor Liping Gan – Probing Matter and More: Beyond the Standard Model Professor Liping Gan and her team at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are working to deepen our understanding of the matter that makes up our Universe. While key theories...
by Iliyah | Mar 14, 2018 | Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dr YuHuang Wang – A Bright Family of Quantum Defects Carbon nanotubes are a remarkable material – more conductive than copper and stronger than steel, yet just a billionth of a metre wide. Their application has already proven invaluable across science and...
by Iliyah | Feb 28, 2018 | Engineering & Computer Science, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Professor Philip Walther – Indefinite Causal Order: Faster Computers and Fundamental Questions Quantum mechanics has greatly improved the speeds at which computers make calculations, but new research shows that quantum computers can be made to run even faster....
by Iliyah | Feb 28, 2018 | Engineering & Computer Science, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Professor Hans De Raedt – Software for Realistic Simulations of Quantum Systems The potential capabilities of universal quantum computers have many of us excited, but there’s one problem – we aren’t close to building complex, functional quantum computers just...
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