From: Commonwealth Cyber Initiative in Southwest Virginia
Interested in learning more about quantum in the intelligence community and how you can get involved? Join us for this event! Faculty member and students welcome.
When: 3-4:45 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14
Where: 310 Kelly Hall
3-3:45 p.m. – Quantum computing: what could it do and how do we prepare?
Speaker: Robert Williams, National Security Agency
Summary: There is a lot of excitement about quantum computing with every step towards a working quantum computer being proudly publicized. In this talk, we will discuss how a quantum computer will differ from classical computers from a mathematical/computer-science perspective and how these differences lead to both unintuitive possibilities and unexpected limitations. We will then turn our attention to what it really means for the world of cryptography- how a working quantum computer could break some public key algorithms and a brief look at the math behind the secure algorithms that replace them.
4-4:45 p.m. – Job and internship opportunities panel
