Falling in love with equations in a closet: Jacob Biamonte at TEDxTorino

Jacob Biamonte is a Mathematical Physicist working to understand the fundamental limits the laws of physics place on computers.  He was a research scientist on the design team working towards building the worlds first commercial quantum computer, and obtained his PhD at the University of Oxford.  Before joining us at the ISI Foundation here in Torino, he held research and teaching positions at several institutions including the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo as well as Harvard University. He is on the editorial board of several prominent research journals and actively contributes technical blog articles to the Azimuth Project, which is devoted to using methods from Mathematics and particularly, techniques developed in quantum theory, to address environmental challenges.