MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Garnet Chan

Apr 05, 2022, from 17:00 until 18:15, Zoom

The 30th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Garnet Chan, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He will be discussing the possibility of exponential quantum advantage in quantum chemistry.

It will take place on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 5 pm (CEST) on Zoom:

https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62002409510
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Prof. Garnet Chan

Is there evidence for exponential quantum advantage in quantum chemistry?


I will give the evidence for and against the possibility of exponential quantum advantage in generic ground-state quantum chemistry calculations.



About the speaker


Garnet Chan
 is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at Caltech. Prior to this he held appointments at Princeton and Cornell University, and was educated at Cambridge University and UC Berkeley.

He is interested in the theory and simulation of many-particle systems, especially quantum ones. 




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