17 Jun

Quantum computers for the future (and for cocktail parties)

Opening hours / Beginning:

Wed:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

17 June 2026

Venue:

Deutsches Museum Museumsinsel 1 80538 München
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The excellence cluster Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) invites you to a free evening talk at the Deutsches Museum on one of the most exciting technologies of our time. Prof. Christopher Monroe draws on the strangest properties of physics — uncertainty, entanglement, superposition — to explain how quantum computers tackle problems that defeat classical computers: cracking encryption, simulating molecules, optimising vast datasets. No prior knowledge needed.

Prof. Christopher Monroe is the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor at Duke University and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of IonQ, the world's first publicly listed quantum computing company. The event is organised by MCQST — a research cluster comprising LMU Munich, the Technical University of Munich, the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, and the Walther-Meißner Institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Deutsches Museum as outreach partner.

A registration is required. For more information, please visit the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology website.

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