Wineland to deliver Quantum Frontiers lecture Thursday

The third instalment of the Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecture Series will feature ion-trapping expert David Wineland.

The Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecture series continues this Thursday with a 4:30 talk by Dr. David Wineland, a recognized leader in ion trapping and its applications in quantum information science.

Wineland is a Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and group leader of the Ion Storage group in the Time and Frequency Division at NIST Boulder, CO.

Wineland's talk will focus on how researchers deal with the effects of special and general relativity in the development of atomic clocks of unprecedented precision.

Presented by the Institute for Quantum Computing and the University of Waterloo's Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wineland's talk is the third instalment of the Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecture Series. 

The talk will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday Jan. 19, in room 1015 of the University of Waterloo's Centre for Environmental and Information Technology (EIT).  In addition to the Quantum Frontiers lecture, Wineland will also deliver a lunchtime lecture at IQC, starting at noon in RAC1 2009.