International Conference

Venue: Einstein Forum, Am Neuen Markt 7, 14467 Potsdam

The workshop will also be broadcast live on Zoom. To watch online, please register here:
Thursday, February 5
Friday, February 6

Conception: Franziska Bomski and Amber Carpenter (Potsdam)
With: Janet Anders, Potsdam; Tommaso Calarco, Jülich; Bob Coecke, Oxford; Dietmar Dath, Frankfurt a.M./Freiburg; Markus Krutzik, Berlin; Michele Reilly, Cambridge, Mass.; Arne Schirrmacher, Berlin; Manouchehr Shamsrizi, Berlin; A. Douglas Stone, New Haven; Marika Taylor, Birmingham

Since its inception more than a century ago, quantum science has embarked on an unsteady but inexorable journey from paradoxical possibility to one of the most fecund scientific and technological frontiers. While quantum theory has quietly set the agenda for some of the toughest problems in theoretical physics, quantum science begins to pervade our daily lives via technologies such as atomic clocks and quantum brain imaging. The apparently approaching advent of stable quantum computing looks set to overturn digital security systems developed since everyday shopping and banking went online, to say nothing of national security systems. And yet awaiting such a quantum computer has no small air of waiting for Godot.
This conference looks back at the past century of quantum science, and its place in the popular imagination; and it looks forward, as we stand apparently on the brink of multiple application breakthroughs, at how quantum science—with all its dangers and possibilities—promises to affect the social world and lived realities of everyone.

The German talks will be simultaneously translated into English.

 
 
Program