IRM Annual Lecture
1 December 2010
| Date |
Wednesday 1 December 2010 |
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| Time |
09:15 – 09:45 Registration and networking breakfast
09:45 – 11:00 Annual Lecture |
| Venue and map |
The Willis Building, 51 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7DQ
Map |
| Booking |
Available shortly |
This year's speaker will be Professor Vlatko Vedral (pictured).
Biography
Vlatko Vedral studied undergraduate theoretical physics at Imperial College London, where he also received a PhD for his work on 'Quantum Information Theory of Entanglement'. Since June 2009, Vedral has moved to Oxford as Professor of Quantum Information Science. He is also a Professor of Physics at the National University of Singapore and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore. Throughout his career he has held positions at Imperial College, University of Leeds, University of Vienna and a number of visiting professorships at different international institutions. He has published more than 160 research papers and has written two textbooks. He frequently writes for popular science journals and major daily newspapers, as well as doing extensive radio programmes and television interviews. His first popular book: “Decoding Reality” was published by OUP earlier this year.
IRM is delighted to thank Willis Ltd for their continued support of this event.
Previous Annual Lectures
In 2009 Stephen Carver gave a presentation on Risk 1066 - The Battle of Hastings
In 2008 , Frank Gardner BBC's secruity correspondent, spoke on 'Blood, oil and sand: Reflections on risk and reality in the Middle East'. Read more about it here or the previous years here. |
