UBC Math Department Colloquium: Zahra Baghali Khanian

In the groundbreaking paper in 1948 "a mathematical theory of communication", Shannon provided a mathematical foundation for the concept of information and subsequently established the fundamental constraints on storing and transmitting information. Nevertheless, scientists believe that fundamentally everything is quantum, and quantum mechanics offers nontrivial answers to questions of what is information and how it can be stored and communicated. I will introduce some of these concepts and elucidate the mathematical challenges, surprising effects, and phenomena in the field of quantum information. Furthermore, I will discuss recent developments in this evolving field.