Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2006
professor Jason TWAMLEY
Professor Jason Twamley has recently been appointed Chair
Professor in Quantum Information Science at Macquarie University. A
former ARC Research Fellow with Professor Paul Davies in Adelaide, a
lecturer at the University of Queensland and a Research Fellow at
Imperial College, London, Twamley most recently lectured at National
University of Ireland, Maynooth since 1997. He also served as Dean
of Research and Graduate Studies since 2002. In the latter post, he
was responsible for increasing the research quantum, postgraduate
studies and research innovation/commercialisation of NUI Maynooth.
During his tenure, NUI Maynooth, the smallest University in Ireland,
rose to third highest in Ireland in terms of research quantum.
At NUI Maynooth, Twamley had been the Principal Investigator in
research awards totaling over 17million Euro and led two large
multinational EU projects in fullerene based quantum computing. More
recently he co-won a Science Foundation Ireland grant of 3.4million
Euro to set up a joint experimental and theoretical research centre
in trapped ion quantum information processing. Earlier this year,
together with Vladimir Buzek of Slovakia, he proposed and was
awarded a 36-partner EC project worth 10million Euro specifically
aimed at developing small scale applications of quantum information
processing. This is the largest single project that the EC has ever
funded on quantum information science. Since moving to Australia,
Professor Twamley is no longer the coordinator, however both
Macquarie University and University of Queensland are involved in
this global multinational project.
At Macquarie, Professor Twamley will lead the university's
involvement in the ARC's second largest frontier technologies Centre
of Excellence, the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology - an
Australian multi-university collaboration undertaking research on
the fundamental physics and technology of building, at the atomic
level, a solid state quantum computer in silicon together with other
high potential implementations.
Seminar:
Quantum information
technology - prospects for the future
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