Date added: 2025-05-08
Gdańsk Quantum Days – World-Renowned Scientists at Gdańsk University of Technology (10.05)
As part of the XVI Symposium on Quantum Information, lectures will be held at Gdańsk University of Technology on Saturday, May 10, at 5:00 p.m. in the university’s main auditorium. The lectures will be presented by Professor Charles Bennett, a pioneer of quantum cryptography, and Professor Michael Berry, renowned for the discovery of the quantum phenomenon known as the Berry phase.
The symposium and all associated lectures will be conducted in English.
Beginning in the late 1960's quantum phenomena, previously viewed mainly as a nuisance for information processing, led to new kinds of cryptography and computation, and ultimately to a reconceptualization of the nature of information whose consequences for informatics and for fundamental questions like the nature of black holes and spacetime, are still being discovered, and the whose strange beauty, though it eluded Einstein, is within the grasp of any educated person.
Connections between physics and technological invention and aspects of human life that seem far from science are both unexpected and unexpectedly common. And rather than flowing one way - from physics to gadgets - the connections form an intricate web, linking all aspects of human culture, in ways that frustrate our convenient compartmentalisations and interventions aimed at promoting technology transfer. I will discuss this theme not abstractly but with examples, ranging from music to the colour of gold, and explain how quantum technology helps me do quantum physics.
Sponsors: Gdańsk University of Technology; University of Gdańsk; British Embassy in Warsaw; National Centre for Quantum Information; International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies; Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics of the University of Gdańsk; University of Gdańsk Development Foundation; 16th KCICK–ICTQT Symposium on Quantum Information; International Year of Quantum Science and Technology; UNESCO.