Today is the last quantum computing class of the year at Hackaday and Microsoft Reactor. Make sure to tune in at 11:30 am PT (note the daylight saving time shift) for the season finale on quantum error correction by guest lecturer, Dr. Michael Beverland. 

Abstract:

Why have you never experienced superposition in every day life, like a state of Schrodinger's cat being both dead and alive? The reason of course is that noise causes decoherence of the superposition state, collapsing it into either of the two parts of the two cases. To build a large scale quantum computer we need special techniques to overcome these effects and protect the information from collapsing their precious superposition. Today we will cover the field of Quantum Error Correction which is tasked with this great challenge.

Bio:

Michael Beverland is a senior researcher in Microsoft Quantum, specializing in quantum error correction and fault tolerance. He did his postdoctoral work with Krysta Svore at Microsoft Research, his doctoral work with John Preskill at Caltech, and undergraduate studies in Cambridge, England. His research interests span the following topics: topological codes, universal quantum gates, scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing, code switching, noise models, and statistical mechanical approaches to quantum error correction.