学术报告:On Quantum Indeterminism, Unpredictability and Randomness

报告题目:On Quantum Indeterminism, Unpredictability and Randomness

主讲:Cristian S. Calude,University of Auckland, New Zealand

日期:2017 年7 月3日 (周一)

时间:上午10:30 - 12:00

地点:jbo竞博电竞官方网站东校区数据科学与jbo竞博电竞官方网站A201

主持:邱道文 教授

 

摘要:

"The discovery that individual [quantum] events are irreducibly random is probably one of the most significant findings of the twentieth century." (Zeilinger, Nature, 2005).  Can this well-known quantum attribute, postulated or claimed for a long time, be “proved"?  How unpredictable is quantum randomness? How "random" is quantum randomness? The talk will present recent results giving possible answers to these questions.

报告人简介:

Cristian S. Calude, a member of Academia Europaea, is Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a research consultant for the Quantum Computing Research Initiatives at Lockheed Martin, USA. He received his higher education at the Bucharest University, where he was a student of Gr. C. Moisil and S. Marcus. He is currently working in algorithmic information theory and quantum physics. He published 40 books and more than 250 articles in discrete mathematics, computational complexity, algorithmic information theory, quantum theory, history and philosophy of mathematics and computer science. He had more than 25 visiting appointments including visiting professorships at Cambridge University, Ecole Normale Superieure and Ecole Politechnique in Paris, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Microsoft Research, Sandia National Laboratories, IBM Research and Google, Mountainview. Prof. Calude gave more than 50 invited talks to international conferences and 160 seminar presentations to universities in Europe, Americas, Australasia and Africa. He is the founder of the international conference series "Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation". His works have been cited by more than 5500 papers and 120 books by 550 authors. Prof. Calude was awarded many prizes and distinctions: his joint paper on a quasipolynomial algorithm deciding the parity game was presented a Best Paper Award at ACM STOC2017, Montreal. In his ever-vanishing spare time he plays tennis and keyboard.