Seminar: High-performance and quantum computing - One dozen applications

Abstract

I will present twelve applications of quantum computing and high-performance computing that I've implemented in recent years. These include: DNA genomics for bioinformatics, computer vision, quantum chemistry, integer factorization in cryptography, computational spectroscopy, Feynman integrals, master equations for open quantum dynamics, Ramsey numbers in graph theory, quantum neural networks, protein folding, discrete optimization for operations research, and quantum compilers.

Bio

Nike Dattani was born in Scarborough (now Toronto) Ontario to refugee parents from Uganda. He attended elementary school in Whitby and high school in Markham. While at University of Waterloo, he worked as a scientific researcher with many professors, including Bob LeRoy, and Ray Laflamme (then the Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, and a former PhD student of Stephen Hawking). He completed his PhD at Oxford University while funded by multiple different scholarships, including the prestigious Clarendon scholarship which is the most competitive scholarship available to all Oxford applicants. While at Oxford, he won the Heatherington Prize for the best doctoral thesis presentation. He then held many research positions including (but not limited to) JSPS Fellow and Fukui Fellow at Kyoto University (Japan), Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (USA), and Banting Fellow at McMaster University.