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Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Raffi Budakian: Probing Novel Nanomagnetic Phenomena with Ultrasensitive Force Detection

Raffi Budakian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abstract

Since the invention of the atomic force microscope (AFM) by Binnig, Quate and Gerber in 1986, force-based scanning probes have become an essential tool for imaging, manipulating and measuring materials on the nanometer scale. At the heart of the AFM is a mechanical sensor or cantilever that transduces the force generated between the probe tip and the sample into a displacement.

Monday, April 4, 2011 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Cristopher Moore: The McEliece cryptosystem resists quantum Fourier sampling attacks

Cristopher Moore, University of New Mexico

Abstract

Since Shor's algorithm breaks RSA cryptography, it makes sense to look for post-quantum cryptosystems: cryptosystems that can be carried out with classical computers today, but which will remain secure even if and when quantum computers are built.

Sophie Schirmer, University of Cambridge

Abstract

I will cover the basics in terms of the control objectives and algorithms, details about the implementation, and recent results about the convergence behaviour, control landscape, and field characteristics and similarities and differences we see in Markovian vs Non-Markovian systems.

Part of a MITACS seminar series