Engineered Quantum Agents with Gerard Milburn, 7:30pm on Wednesday 11th February

Talk outline

Galileo’s genius saw that we can learn about the world by building artefacts to exhibit simple, reproducible phenomena. We push on the world and the world pushes back. Over a century ago we discovered that some interventions produced a big surprise: the world is quantum.

Quantum theory is notoriously weird, but we understand it well enough to use it. Quantum technology seeks effective strategies to control the quantum world to make us wealthier, healthier and safer.

In this talk Gerard will describe some quantum technologies already changing our lives, including new navigation tools and algorithms for cybersecurity. The next step is Embedded AI, delivering ‘self-driving laboratories’, accelerating scientific discovery, and leading to quantum technologies beyond human imagination.

About the speaker

Gerard Milburn

Quantum Fellow, NQCC

Gerard Milburn was the founding Director of the Australian Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems, established in 2011. In 2024 he moved to the UK where he is a Quantum Fellow at the National Quantum Computing Centre in the UK.