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Events for November 22, 2005
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Discussion & Book Signing
Tue, Nov 22, 2005 @ 12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Michael Chorost:
Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human (Houghton Mifflin, June 2005) is my story of becoming a cyborg. It's a scientific memoir of going deaf and getting my hearing back with a cochlear implant, that is, a computer embedded in my skull. Science fiction writers and filmmakers have speculated about cyborgs (human-computer fusions) for decades, but in this book I reveal what it's really like to have part of one's body controlled by a computer.http://www.michaelchorost.com/
Location: Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation (DOH) - eny Memorial Library (DML 233)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Sarah Oesch
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Quantum informations first family, revisited
Tue, Nov 22, 2005 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Patrick Hayden, McGill UniversityAbstract: It's been almost two years since Devetak, Harrow and Winter introduced their "mother" and "father" protocols into quantum information theory. In their paper, almost all of the many varieties of capacity and distillation protocols that had been previously been devised in quantum information theory were organized into two sets of children, those descended from the mother and those descended from the father. In this talk, I'll sketch a new and very simple proof of the mother protocol. Along the way, she'll reveal herself to be even more powerful than previously thought. In addition to generating optimal entanglement distillation protocols, I'll show how she provides a straightforward proof of the Horodecki-Oppenheim-Winter negative information result and can be used as a building block for the distributed compression of quantum data. In her new, more powerful form, the mother protocol even generates the father. The original two sets of children are thereby reduced to one and our understanding of quantum information theory is radically simplified: by starting with a single maximally quantum-mechanical protocol and transforming it in a few simple ways we can accomplish most of the tasks of interest in two-party quantum information processing.Bio: Patrick Hayden is currently an assistant professor of computer science at McGill University. Prior to joining McGill in 2004, he spent three years as a Sherman Fairchild Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained his D.Phil. in physics as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics from McGill. His current fascination with quantum information processing was foreshadowed early; as a high school student, he worked summers as a programmer for an operating systems company with the curiously prescient, if premature, name Quantum Software Systems.Host: Professor Igor Devetak, devetak@usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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CE/ENE Major of the Month
Tue, Nov 22, 2005 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
This event is a chance for you to learn more about the variety of opportunities available to students with a degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering. Dinner will be provided.
This event is jointly sponsored by the Viterbi Admission and Student Affairs Office and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 101
Audiences: All Undergraduate Students
Contact: Erika Pratt
