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Physicist Marianna Safronova will present “The World of Quantum Information”noon Friday, March 2 in Gagnon Lecture Hall (room 100) Hugel Science Center.
Her lecture is sponsored by the Physics Club.
According to Safronova, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at University of Delaware, quantum computation is a new field of research that is aimed at using the quantum nature of matter to produce fundamentally new methods of computation and simulation of physical systems. In the discussion, she will present its basic concepts such as quantum superstition, entanglement, quantum measurement, and quantum bits.
Safronova’s research specializes in the high precision theoretical treatment of atomic systems. She has authored or co-authored more than 40 articles in scholarly journals and has received more than $300,000 in grants from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Science Foundation. She received her Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Moscow State University.