Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Sandy Bay Campus, University of Tasmania
Summary:Australian Institute of Physics Public Lecture
Presenter(s):
- Professor David Jamieson
In 1928 Paul Dirac said, "The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble." Is this enough to explain life? Does quantum mechanics play an important role? This lecture looks at the fundamentals.
About the Speaker
David Jamieson is a Professor of Physics at the University of Melbourne where he was Head of the School from 2008-2013.He has a PhD from Melbourne and held postdoctoral fellowships at Caltech (USA) and the University of Oxford (UK). He was President of the Australian Institute of Physics from 2005-2006. His research expertise in the field of ion beam physics was applied to test some of the key functions of a revolutionary quantum computer constructed in silicon in the ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology. In 2020 he received a Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship to work on new ideas for engineering silicon with single atoms.
This public talk is delivered as part of the AIP Public Talk Series. The AIP Public Talks are accessible for all ages, and everyone is welcome.
