Computer Science Distinguished Lecture

Speaker:  Dr. Scott Aaronson, Professor, University of Texas at Austin 

Location:   Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030

Title:  Are We Cooked?

Abstract:  I’ll describe some recent case studies of using AI to solve open problems that I cared about in quantum computing and computational complexity theory, and reflect on what theoretical computer science might look like going forward.

Bio:  Scott Aaronson is Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and founding director of its Quantum Information Center. He received his bachelor’s from Cornell University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. Aaronson’s research has focused mainly on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers. His first book, Quantum Computing Since Democritus, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He received the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, the United States PECASE Award, the Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in Physics, the ACM Prize in Computing, and the inaugural Trevisan Prize for Expository Work in Theory of Computing, and is a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs at “Shtetl-Optimized,”
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog

Host:   Daochen Wang, UBC Computer Science