Prof. Gilles Brassard
Visiting Fellow, CAS Research Focus “Physics and Security”
Université de Montréal
Computer science
Gilles Brassard is professor of computer science at the Université de Montréal.
He laid the foundations of quantum cryptography and is one of the inventors of quantum teleportation, which is one of the most fundamental concepts in quantum information theory. He has received numerous awards and prizes including Fellow of the Royal Society of London, International Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, Officer of the Orders of Canada and Quebec, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Micius Quantum Prize and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. He has been granted honorary doctorates from ETH Zurich, the University of Ottawa and USI Lugano.
Gilles Brassard is in the context of the CAS Research Focus “Physics and Security” Fellow at CAS. He will give two lectures during his time here in Munich: On 27 June on "Probability and Consequences of Living inside a Computer Simulation" and on 30 June on "Could Einstein Have Been Right after All?“.