2025: Year of Quantum
The 2025 Frontiers of Science lecture series celebrates 100 years of quantum mechanics and the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science and Technology with six lectures on consecutive Saturdays that explore the depth and breadth of quantum research at Penn State and beyond.
“Public interest technologists and the battle for privacy in the quantum age”
January 25, 2025
100 Thomas Building
“How chemistry and physics come together in quantum materials”
February 1, 2025
100 Thomas Building
“What can quantum computing do for scientific computing?”
February 8, 2025
100 Thomas Building
“Accurate quantum computing”
February 22, 2025
100 Thomas Building
“Building a quantum information highway network with topological edge states”
March 1, 2025
001 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building
“A tale of two gases: Classical and quantum”
RESCHEDULED: March 22, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.
100 Thomas Building
Saturday mornings January 25 through March 1, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Lectures will be held in either 100 Thomas Building or 001 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building.
The lecture series was founded by Abhay Ashtekar, founding director of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. It owes its success to Barbara Kennedy, who presided over the series during its first 25 years, making it one of the most successful science outreach events in central Pennsylvania.
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