Conference given by María José Martínez Pérez at Ibercaja Patio de la Infanta
CONFERENCE: “COMPUTACIÓN DEL FUTURO ¿CÓMO FUNCIONA UN ORDENADOR CUÁNTICO?”
Ibercaja Patio de la Infanta is hosting this last conference in the series: Ciclo: “Algunos retos actuales de la física”, organised by the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas, Químicas y Naturales de Zaragoza in collaboration with the Fundación Ibercaja.
The other two conferences in the series, “El bosón de Higgs y las pandemias” and “Una incursión en lo pequeño, el magnetismo en el siglo XXI” will be held on the 2nd and 9th of March respectively.
Quantum mechanics is more than 100 years old. It is a fully accepted theory that has allowed us to understand how chemical bonds between atoms and molecules work, so can we predict the behaviour of more complex structures such as macromolecules and proteins? Not always. In most cases the complexity of the problem is too great. But what if we had a quantum computer? But what if we had a quantum computer? That would change things. Quantum computing and quantum simulation will not only be able to perform tasks very quickly, but will also make it possible to solve certain problems that a conventional computer cannot handle. This will make it possible to design fertilisers, medicines, vaccines, superconducting materials and batteries. Do you want to know how a quantum computer works?
SPEAKER:
María José Martínez Pérez. Distinguished researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), she has been working at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA) since 2017. Her research has been funded thanks to different projects, including an ERC-Starting Grant from the European Commission. Previously, he worked in several European centres such as the University of Tubingen (Germany) and the NEST laboratory in Pisa (Italy).
Member of the “Solid State Physics Group” and of the Aragon Local Section of the RSEF, she also belongs to the quantum technologies platform of the CSIC and regularly organises lectures and seminars, being very active in outreach work. She has received several awards such as the “Aragón Investiga” prize awarded by the Government of Aragón (2017), the “Young Researcher in Experimental Physics” prize of the RSEF and the Royal Academy of Sciences of Zaragoza awarded her the Research prize of the Physics section in 2021.
Registration at: https://www.fundacionibercaja.es/zaragoza/conferencia-computacion-del-futuro-como-funciona-un-ordenador-cuantico.
