The series of encounters entitled “The travelling Genius : Italians Art, humanities, science … in the world”, is a space for discussion and cultural dialogue that the Italian Cultural Institute has developed especially for young Italians in world. Italians who, beyond any orientation, are the bearers of knowledge accumulated in Italy and diffuse the following, even without their knowledge, a provision or a vocation of ancient origin: the generous exchange of culture, comforted by a keen sense of human comprehension.
May 18th, 2017, 6:30pm Free Admission
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield
How is information defined, and which role does it play in modern physics?
In this talk I will discuss the critical aspects in which quantum information differs from classical information and how these concepts are used in contemporary research efforts, to build quantum computers and to reveal surprising properties of our universe.
Alessandro Ricottone is born in Pietrasanta on March 16 1988. In 2010 he obtains the bachelor degree in astrophysics from Universita’ di Padova. In 2012 he gets a master degree at the Freie Universitaet Berlin where he specializes in condensed matter physics. After the birth of his daughter Beatrice, he takes a break from physics for two years before starting a PhD at McGill University in 2014. Here he studies the quantum properties of nano-scale condensed matter systems and how to use these systems for quantum information processing.
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