soliciting potential science or math topics

[MelchyBeau]

Quantum Computing could be interesting. You can start off by discussing that todays computers run on the principle of on/off. Whereas if quantum computers became a reality, they would run off the different states of a particle. spin up spin down, etc..

Melch

[gumpzilla]

Quantum computing is definitely something that I'd think about talking about in the future, since it's now (sort of)the field that I'm working in. The trick is to find something to actually say about it. I guess EPR and teleportation would be at least sort of manageable and might be of interest to some people.

[MelchyBeau]

What is your field? I have a B.S. in Physics, and am going to go to grad school in January for my Masters in Math

Melch

[gumpzilla]

I'm a Ph.D student in physics, recently switched from theoretical work to experimental. It's been a good change so far; the equipment I've broken has been cheap and easily repaired. My lab is working on one particular road to instantiating qubits (there are tons of different suggestions about how to do this on the table, all of which have their own bucket of problems.) It will be a very long time before anything resembling a quantum computer exists, but there is some pretty interesting physics along the way.