Seminar: Ryan Babbush (Google Research): "The search for valuable applications of fault-tolerant quantum computers"

Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/779283357?pwd=MitXVm1pYUlJVzZqT3lwV2pCT1ZUQT09
Speaker: Ryan Babbush
Title: The search for valuable applications of fault-tolerant quantum computers
Abstract: The ultimate dream of quantum computing, and the plan of record for many industrial efforts, is to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer. This talk will survey work of Google’s Quantum Algorithms & Applications team which seeks to answer this question by developing, compiling, and benchmarking the most promising applications of quantum computers that realize a super-quadratic speedup over classical methods. The talk will touch on applications in quantum chemistry, classical differential equations, optimization and machine learning.