Mark Saffman: Speaker, ACCA Spring Physics Colloquium
North Central College's physics program will host the ACCA (Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area) Spring Physics Colloquium with a presentation by guest speaker Mark Saffman, an experimental physicist and professor in the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Free and open to the public, the event takes place at 6 p.m. Monday, April 11, in the College's Smith Hall at Old Main, 30 N. Brainard St. A fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, Saffman will speak on the topic "Computing with quanta - extracting certainty from an uncertain world." He works in the areas of atomic physics, quantum and nonlinear optics, and quantum information processing. He has made important contributions to optical solitons, pattern formation, sources of entangled light, and quantum computing. His current research effort is devoted to the development of neutral atom-based quantum computing devices. His research team was the first to demonstrate a quantum CNOT gate between two trapped neutral atoms, and the deterministic entanglement of a pair of neutral atoms. Saffman is currently developing scalable neutral atom platforms using arrays of optically or magnetically trapped atoms. For more information contact Nick Mauro at namauro@noctrl.edu or 630-637-5178.
North Central College's physics program will host the ACCA (Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area) Spring Physics Colloquium with a presentation by guest speaker Mark Saffman, an experimental physicist and professor in the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Free and open to the public, the event takes place at 6 p.m. Monday, April 11, in the College's Smith Hall at Old Main, 30 N. Brainard St. A fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, Saffman will speak on the topic "Computing with quanta - extracting certainty from an uncertain world." He works in the areas of atomic physics, quantum and nonlinear optics, and quantum information processing. He has made important contributions to optical solitons, pattern formation, sources of entangled light, and quantum computing. His current research effort is devoted to the development of neutral atom-based quantum computing devices. His research team was the first to demonstrate a quantum CNOT gate between two trapped neutral atoms, and the deterministic entanglement of a pair of neutral atoms. Saffman is currently developing scalable neutral atom platforms using arrays of optically or magnetically trapped atoms. For more information contact Nick Mauro at namauro@noctrl.edu or 630-637-5178.