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Conference focuses on quantum computing, communication

By Beth Roberts
beth@uga.edu

UGA’s physics department and mathematics department have joined forces to organize a state-of-the-art conference on “Quantum Computing and Communication” at the Georgia Center Sept. 21 and 22.
Experts on quantum computing from around the country and as far away as Switzerland will be making presentations. Conference sessions begin at 9 each morning and continue through 4 p.m. The registration fee is $10 ($5 for students).
“Quantum computing and quantum information science are new multidisciplinary subjects of great current interest to university researchers,” says Michael Geller, assistant professor of physics and one of the organizers of the conference. “It is also of great importance to government agencies and the information and technology industries. The conference will bring the exciting new developments in this field to the attention of the University of Georgia community.”
According to Mitch Rothstein, the associate professor of mathematics who helped organize the conference, several recent theoretical and experimental developments have turned recent speculations into reality.
“The presumed impossibility of factoring large numbers with conventional computers lies at the basis of today’s state-of-the-art encryption methods used by financial institutions and defense agencies,” he says. “But a quantum prime-factorization algorithm allows huge integers to be factored in reasonable time, which threatens to make the best secure communications methods obsolete.”
For more information about the conference and details about the conference agenda, call the conference sponsors at 542-2567 or 542-2834. Registration can be handled on the Georgia Center Web site (www.gactr.uga.edu/conferences/index.html).

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