Previous Colloquia in Physics & Astronomy

Trusted Research Sophie O & Alastair W National Protective Security Authority 15:00, Friday 28 February 2025 Physics Seminar Room (Building 46/5081) The NPSA is the protective security arm of the Security Service, MI5, and along with organizations such as the National Cyber Security Centre works to tackle security threats including espionage and terrorism. In this colloquium, government representatives Sophie O and Alastair W will outline the risks to academia emanating from state threat actors, ranging from risks to academics themselves through to risks to their research. This will be followed by an introduction to the Trusted Research advice and guidance, which will provide practical steps on how to mitigate research security risks to protect both yourself and your research.

Integrated Photonic Quantum Information Processing Dr Jelmer Renema University of Twente & QuiX Quantum 14:30, Friday 29 April 2022 Physics Seminar Room (Building 46/5081) Quantum photonics is one of the leading approaches to large-scale quantum computing, being one of two technology platforms that has demonstrated a quantum advantage. Integrated optics is a scalable way of creating the large-scale optical systems necessary for quantum photonics. In this talk, Dr Renema will present an overview of efforts on integrated photonic QIP, including the recent quantum advantage experiments, the world's largest quantum photonic processor, and an experiment on quantum-photo-thermodynamics.