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SUMMARY:ICFO | IGNACIO CIRAC
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DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 22 \, 2017\, 15:00. ICFO AuditoriumIGNACIO CIRAC\n
 Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and head of the The
 ory Division\n\n$$\nProfessor Ignacio Cirac is a world-expert in the field
  of quantum information and quantum computation. In 2005 he was awarded th
 e “Quantum Electronics Prize” of the European Science Foundation. In M
 ay 2006 he was the youngest ever winner of the renowned Royal Spanish Prin
 ce of Asturias Prize\, and in the same year he received the International 
 Quantum Communication Award together with Professor Peter Zoller (Universi
 ty of Innsbruck). In 2009 he shared the “Frontiers of Knowledge Award in
  Basic Sciences” of the Spanish BBVA Foundation as well as the Benjamin 
 Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia (USA) with Profes
 sor Peter Zoller. In January 2013 he received both the Israeli Wolf Prize 
 and the Niels Bohr Medal. In 2014\, Prof. Cirac received the Honorary Doct
 or from the University of Zaragoza. In 2015 he got the Hamburg Prize for T
 heoretical Physics.\nHis main areas of research are the theoretical descri
 ption of atomic systems interacting with light\, as well as the developmen
 t of a theory of Quantum Information. In those fields he has proposed seve
 ral ways of constructing quantum computers\, quantum simulators and quantu
 m repeaters using ions\, atoms and photons. He has also participated in th
 e development of the theory of entanglement.\n
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