Distinguished Lecture Series: Are We Cooked? Dr. Scott Aaronson (UT Austin)

Speaker: Scott Aaronson, Professor (UT Austin)

Title: Are We Cooked?

Abstract: I'll describe some recent case studies of using AI to solve
open problems that I cared about in quantum computing and
computational complexity theory, and reflect on what theoretical
computer science might look like going forward.

Bio: Scott Aaronson is Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science at the
University of Texas at Austin, and founding director of its Quantum
Information Center. He received his bachelor’s from Cornell University
and his PhD from UC Berkeley. Aaronson’s research has focused mainly
on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers. His first book,
Quantum Computing Since Democritus, was published in 2013 by Cambridge
University Press. He received the National Science Foundation’s Alan
T. Waterman Award, the United States PECASE Award, the
Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in Physics, the ACM Prize in Computing, and
the inaugural Trevisan Prize for Expository Work in Theory of
Computing, and is a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS and a member of the
National Academy of Sciences. He blogs at “Shtetl-Optimized,”
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog