DATE:

Friday, October 6, 2023

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

Virtual Zoom Seminar

SPEAKER:

Bert de Jong, Computational Chemistry, Materials, and Climate Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ABSTRACT:

You probably have seen the excitement and heard about quantum computing. But, you may be curious what it is, and how it may impact research and scientific discovery in the future. You may even wonder what the job prospects might be in this field. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has a significant effort in quantum computing, from hardware development to computer science and applied mathematics to algorithm development for various scientific domains. I will give a little bit of a background and then go into where we are currently with quantum computing.

Bio: Bert de Jong leads the Computational Chemistry, Materials, and Climate Group, which advances scientific computing by developing and enhancing applications in key disciplines, as well as developing tools and libraries for addressing general problems in computational science. de Jong is the director of the multi-institutional 5 year AIDE-QC project funded under the DOE ASCR Accelerated Research in Quantum Computing program. He is a co-PI on multiple projects funded by BES, HEP and ASCR, covering research in quantum computing, exascale computing, machine leaning and scientific discovery. de Jong has a background in general chemistry, chemical engineering and high performance computational and quantum chemistry. de Jong is a AAAS Fellow. He has published more than 130 scientific publications has given over 100 invited presentations and lectures at international conferences and universities.

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HOST:

Jose Castillo (CSRC) and the Sustainable Horizons Institute CRLC Virtual Seminar Series

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