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Perimeter Institute brings great thinkers from around the world to Canada to share their ideas on a wide variety of interesting and topical subjects. These lectures and debates are aimed at non-specialists. No mathematical or scientific knowledge is necessary or assumed. Each event is explicitly tailored for the general public and everyone is welcome to attend. Public Lectures are held at Waterloo Collegiate Institute. See Location and Parking for details. Attendance is free, but advance tickets are required. Due to the overwhelming response to past lectures, tickets will be honoured until 6:45 pm only. If you have not arrived by 6:45 pm your reservation may be filled by guests on our waiting list, and you may be asked to join the end of the waiting list. For other outreach programs available to the public, check out our Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future festival. Tickets available starting at 9:00 am on the specified date, and sell out very quickly.
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The quantum world: from weird to wired |  | Joseph Emerson
March 3, 2010 at 7 pm Abstract
Does quantum mechanics really tell us that particles, molecules, and maybe even cats, can be in two places at once? Does it force us to deny a reality that is independent of our observation? How can scientists disagree about what quantum mechanics means and yet still agree that it is right? Joseph Emerson, co-writer of the award-winning documentary “The Quantum Tamers”, will address these questions and then describe, drawing on preview clips from the documentary, how the weirdness of the quantum world is now being harnessed for a ‘quantum information revolution’ that includes quantum teleportation, super-secure quantum communication, and the exponential power of quantum computation. Tickets become available on Tuesday, February 16th. |
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