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January 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Glorious Days of Physics: Renormalization of Gauge Theories<\/strong>
\nGerard ‘t Hooft<\/a>,\u00a0Nobel Prize in Physics, 1999<\/em><\/a>
\nInstitute for Theoretical Physics,\u00a0Universiteit Utrecht<\/p>\n

January 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

No Colloquium: Martin Luther King Day, University Holiday<\/strong><\/p>\n

January 24<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Gravity to Gauge Theories via Branes<\/strong>
\nIgor Klebanov<\/a>
\nDept. of Physics,\u00a0Princeton University<\/p>\n

January 31<\/strong><\/p>\n

Green Chemistry in China<\/strong>
\nAcademician Qingshi Zhu
\nDept. of Chemical Physics, and President, University of Science and Technology, China<\/p>\n

February 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theory and Simulation of Solitary Wave Fields in the Auroral Ionosphere<\/strong>
\nMartin V. Goldman<\/a>
\nDept. of Physics,\u00a0Univ. of Colorado, Boulder<\/p>\n

February 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

X-ray Spectroscopy and Astrophysical Winds<\/strong>
\nPatrick Wojdowski<\/a>
\nLawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/p>\n

February 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

No Colloquium: Presidents’ Day, University Holiday<\/strong><\/p>\n

February 28<\/strong><\/p>\n

Physics Beyond the Standard Models at Super-Kamiokande<\/strong>
\nKen Ganezer<\/a>
\nDept. of Physics\u00a0California State University, Dominguez Hills<\/p>\n

March 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Subcellular Targeting of Proteins in Neurons: A Biolistic Approach<\/strong>
\nDon Arnold<\/a>
\nDepartment of Biological Sciences,\u00a0USC<\/p>\n

March 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

No Colloquium: Spring Recess, March 13-18<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant<\/strong>
\nWendy Freedman<\/a>
\nCarnegie Observatories, Pasadena<\/p>\n

March 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trapped Nonneutral Plasmas, Fluids, and Crystals<\/strong>
\nDan Dubin<\/a>
\nDept. of Physics,\u00a0Univ. of California, San Diego<\/p>\n

April 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Superstring Phenomenology and Cosmology<\/strong>
\nMichael Dine<\/a>
\nDept. of Physics,\u00a0Univ. of California, Santa Cruz<\/p>\n

April 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

X-ray Astronomy of Compact Objects: Galactic Neutron Stars and Black Holes<\/strong>
\nBob Rutledge<\/a>
\nSpace Radiation Laboratory,\u00a0California Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

April 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer<\/strong>
\nJohn Preskill<\/a>
\nDivision of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy,\u00a0California Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/p>\n

Information is something that can be encoded in the state of a physical system, and a computation is a task that can be performed with a physically realizable device. Therefore, since the physical world is fundamentally quantum mechanical, the foundations of information theory and computer science should be sought in quantum physics. In fact, quantum information has weird properties that contrast sharply with the familiar properties of classical information. A quantum computer — a new type of machine that exploits the quantum properties of information — could perform certain types of calculations far more efficiently than any foreseeable classical computer. To construct practical quantum computers will be tremendously challenging. A particularly daunting difficulty is that quantum computers are far more susceptible to making errors than conventional digital computers. I will explain the principles of fault-tolerant quantum computation, which can enable a properly designed quantum computer with imperfect components to achieve good reliability.<\/p>\n

April 24<\/strong><\/p>\n

Internet 2<\/strong>
\nCarl Kesselman<\/a>
\nInformation Sciences Institute\u00a0(Marina del Rey),\u00a0USC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"parent":1545,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1897","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nColloquium Spring 2000 - Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/physics\/colloquia\/colloquium-archive\/colloquium-spring-2000\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colloquium Spring 2000 - Department of Physics and Astronomy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/physics\/colloquia\/colloquium-archive\/colloquium-spring-2000\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Physics and Astronomy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-25T21:51:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/physics\/colloquia\/colloquium-archive\/colloquium-spring-2000\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/physics\/colloquia\/colloquium-archive\/colloquium-spring-2000\/\",\"name\":\"Colloquium Spring 2000 - 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