Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize technology in areas of great—everything from cryptography to database search to software validation, says Kimberley Hall.

“Progress has occurred at a breathtaking pace in recent years, laying the ground work for a scalable, solid state quantum computing architecture,” says Dr. Hall, physics professor and Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast Science at Dalhousie University.

She will discuss this progress and her own research in a free public lecture, “Quantum Computing at the Speed of Light,” Friday, March 21, at 1:45 p.m. in Vanier Hall’s Oak Room.

Her appearance in Windsor, sponsored by the UWindsor physics department, is part of the Canadian Association of Physicists’ 2014 student lecture tour, which features presentations spanning a wide range of current topics in physics.