We are very excited to announce that we will be hosting an HCQCA-exclusive roundtable discussion with Professor Scott Aaronson on Thursday, March 9th, following his lecture "How much information is in a quantum state?"

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.  Before coming to UT Austin, he spent nine years as a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.  Aaronson's research in theoretical computer science 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, and the ACM Prize in Computing, and is a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS.

We are accepting up to 20 members of HCQCA to meet Professor Aaronson after his talk for a small-group discussion (with free boba sponsored by Kung Fu Tea!)

To participate in this exclusive opportunity, please fill out our 15-minute application form by Saturday, March 4th, at 11:59pm!