Radical Science
Science, the humanities, and the arts come together in a wide-ranging cultural programme about the research that is going to transform the world as we know it.
Ignacio Cirac. What will we be able to do with quantum computers?
Ignacio Cirac is the director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching (Germany) and one of the world’s leading pioneers in quantum computing. Together with Austrian physicist Peter Zoller, he was the first to propose how a quantum computer could be built. In this interview, ...
Beatriz Roldán and Mar Reguant
Technology and economy for the energy transition
Although it is an extremely urgent challenge for the sustainability of the planet, the energy transition is not advancing at the pace it should. How can technology help? What role does the economy play? Beatriz Roldán, expert in nanomaterials, and Mar Reguant, climate economics ...
Matter
Audiovisual performance by Maotik and talk with Lucía Aballe
The digital artist Maotik presents an audiovisual performance moving in real time through the four fundamental states of matter, and speaks with the ALBA Synchrotron researcher Lucía Aballe about the synergism between art and materials science.
Ignacio Cirac and Anna Fontcuberta
The second quantum revolution
We invite Ignacio Cirac, pioneer in quantum computing, and expert in materials with quantum applications, Anna Fontcuberta, to analyse the present stage of research in this field and discuss why new quantum technologies are creating so much expectation, not only in the domain of science but also in economic and geopolitical spheres.
Quantum Computers: The Coming Revolution
A Morning with Ignacio Cirac
Ignacio Cirac, world leader in quantum computing research, talks about the huge transformations that this new technology will entail, a paradigm shift that will transform all fields in which computing is used, with a scope that is still difficult to predict, as are its social implications.
Pioneering Science in Catalonia
Inaugural session of “Radical Science”
The research system of Catalonia leads a large part of Spain’s most advanced research projects in science and technology. The directors of four leading international centres -ICFO, Sincrotró ALBA, IBEC and IFAE - present today’s most strategic agendas of state-of-the-art ...