Quantum and the Intelligence Community: Dive in!

Quantum and the intelligence community: dive in!

• When: Thursday, September 14, 2023, 3:00-4:45
• Where: 310 Kelly Hall

Faculty member and students welcome!

Agenda

• Quantum Computing: What could it do and how do we prepare?
  3:00pm - 3:45 pm
  
  Speaker: Robert Williams, National Security Agency Abstract: 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.
  
  
• Job and Internship Opportunities Panel 
  4:00 - 4:45 pm
  

Sponsors

• The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative in Southwest Virginia
• The Virginia Tech Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering
• Applied Algebra Research Group
• Virgina Tech Department of Mathematics