[Emeriti-faculty] Department Events for week of October 4, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

 Good morning:

Events for this week are:

5:00 pm
Monday, October 4, 2010
Robinson Hall 250
Physics Graduate Students’ JOURNAL CLUB
Professors Larry Ford, Jose Blanco-Pillado and Ken Olum
“Overview of Cosmology Research at Tufts”
(undergraduate students, faculty and anyone interested are also invited: 
food served at 4:30 pm in Knipp Library)

Noon (12:00pm)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Society of Physics Students (SPS)
Robinson 251
SPS Lecture -- "Symmetry Breakdown: Physics, Food, and Alien Contact"
Leon Gunther
(undergraduate students of any major are invited to attend)
Description: Professor of Physics Leon Gunther gives a lecture 
explaining the concepts of handedness and symmetry, and how they relate 
to biology. He will also talk about how we can communicate the ideas of 
“left” and “right” to aliens.

3:00 pm
Friday, October 8, 2010
Science & Technology Center, Room 136
4 Colby St., Medford Campus
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
“Simulation of Quantum Systems on Quantum Computers”
Peter Love
Haverford College
Simulation of quantum systems remains one of the most promising areas in 
which future quantum computers could provide significant advantages over 
their classical counterparts. In this talk I will review the basic ideas 
of quantum computation and quantum algorithms, and describe the Grover 
search algorithm in detail as an example where quantum mechanics gives 
clear computational speedup. I will then describe approaches to 
calculating ground state properties of molecular systems and describe 
some recent experimental implementations of these methods and prospects 
for future experiments.
Refreshments served at 2:30 in STC, Room 124.