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Nobel Laureate John Martinis to Deliver Quantum Computing Lecture at UWA

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Briefings

US Nobel Laureate Professor John Martinis will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Western Australia on November 10, 2026, at 6:30 pm. The talk covers his 2025 Nobel Prize-winning work on macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in electric circuits, as well as his PhD experiments in superconducting qubits from the mid-1980s. Martinis will discuss how semiconductor manufacturing and system engineering can support scalable quantum computers, having previously worked at Google to achieve quantum supremacy in 2019. He also presented a plenary lecture at the 21st Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and Wisps from November 8-13.

Key points

• Professor John Martinis, a US Nobel Laureate, will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Western Australia on November 10, 2026, at 6:30 pm.
• Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clarke and Michel Devoret for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.

Context

The lecture focuses on the evolution of quantum computing from an intellectual curiosity to a potentially realisable technology, with a specific emphasis on semiconductor manufacturing and system engineering for scalable technology. Martinis, who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, will share details from his PhD thesis work and subsequent experiments in superconducting qubits.

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