Hi Everyone,
Tomorrow we have Jarrod giving group meeting. See below for the title and
abstract of his talk.
See you there,
Jennifer
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Title: How to solve problems by changing the question
Abstract:
In this talk I will cover some topics of general interest to myself with a
common theme related to understanding the difficulty of a problem as
related to how one poses their question. I will discuss some commonly
known problems related to simple integration of functions as well as
consequences for eigenvalue problems in high dimensions and precision on
both classical and quantum computers. This naturally leads to a discussion
of the Van Vleck catastrophe, adiabatic quantum computation, and the
meaningfulness of the wavefunction in systems with many particles. I then
generalize the concern of the relevance of an N-particle wavefunction to
all models and introduce the idea of sloppy parameters. Example
applications and explanations of relevance will be given in domains
including molecular dynamics, spectroscopy, and beyond.
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