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In this talk professor Simha will discuss:

• Why are governments spending billions each year in the worldwide race to build quantum computers? Why are all the big tech companies investing in QC?
• What are the applications? What does it even mean?
• What makes quantum computing so fundamentally different from regular computing, and how does it exploit the strangeness of the quantum world?

Rahul Simha is Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington University, with an additional courtesy appointment in GW’s school of education. He was on the faculty at William & Mary from 1990-2000. His research interests in the past have included: security and embedded systems, applied AI, educational technology, as well as interdisciplinary areas such as biocomplexity and STEM Education. Currently, his PhD students are exploring topics in computational neuroscience and quantum computing. He is the recipient of funding from various agencies such as the National Science Foundation, DARPA, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He was a founding member and first Faculty Co-Director of the university’s reformulated teaching center, serving from 2010-2017, and has been involved in and has led numerous educational activities on campus including: co-teaching interdisciplinary STEM courses, co-directing interdisciplinary STEM programs, undergraduate research, senior projects, workshops for K-12 teachers, the Faculty Learning Community for junior faculty, curricular development, assessment, and program development. He is the recipient of several teaching awards including: 2010 CASE U.S. Professor of the Year for the District of Columbia, the engineering school's, first Distinguished Teacher Award, and several departmental teaching awards.

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Weizhen Mao

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