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Events for April 23, 2010
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2010 Research Paper & Teaching Assistant Award Ceremony
Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University Calendar
All Electrical Engineering Ph.D students are cordially invited to join us for our annual awards of excellence in teaching and research. After the awards presentation, you may join us for a special talk and socialize with fellow students over an informal lunch. Guest Speaker: Dr. Albert (Skip) Rizzo "Virtual Reality: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!"
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Graduate/Department Only/
Contact: Kristie Rueff
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Sending a Photon Backwards in Time
Fri, Apr 23, 2010 @ 02:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Distinguished Lecturer SeriesDr.Seth Lloyd -Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstract:
Ever since Einstein, physicists have argued about whether time travel is consistent with the laws of physics, and, if so, how it might be accomplished. This talk presents a new theory of time travel based on quantum teleportation. Unlike previous theories, the theory can be tested experimentally. I report on an experimental realization of the "grandfather paradox:" we send a photon a few billionths of a second backwards in time and have it try to "kill" its previous self.Biography:
Seth Lloyd was the first person to develop a realizable model for quantum computation and is currently working with a variety of groups to construct and operate quantum computers and quantum communication systems. Dr. Lloyd is the author of over one hundred scientific papers, and of Programming the Universe, (Knopf, 2004). He is currently the director of the W.M. Keck Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - vatori Auditorium (SAL-101)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
