Samuel L. Braunstein
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Samuel L. Braunstein (born in Melbourne, 1961) is a professor in the Computer Science department at the University of York, UK. He heads a research group in non-standard computation, and has a particular interest in quantum information and quantum computation.
Professor Braunstein has written or edited three books, and has published more than eighty papers. His arguably most important work was on quantum teleportation, and published in a paper titled Unconditional Quantum Teleportation. The paper has been cited more than five hundred times and has received significant coverage in both the scientific and mainstream press.
In February 2006 Sam made the news due to his involvement in the first successful demonstration of Quantum telecloning. See http://www.physorg.com/news10924.html for one such story.
Braunstein has an Erdős number of 3, having co-authored a paper with Gilles Brassard.
[edit] Academic career
- University of Melbourne - BSc and MSc in Physics
- California Institute of Technology - PhD in Physics, awarded in 1988
- University of Arizona, USA - Research Associate (1988 - 1991)
- Technion, Israel - Lady Davis Fellow (1991 - 1993)
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel - Feinberg Fellow (1993 - 1995)
- University of Ulm, Germany - Humboldt Fellow (1995 - 1996)
- School of Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor, UK - Lecturer through Professor (1996 - 2003)
- Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK - Professor (2003-)
[edit] Books
- Samuel L. Braunstein: Quantum Computing: Where Do We Want To Go Tomorrow?, Wiley-VCH, ISBN 3-527-40284-5
- Samuel L. Braunstein and Hoi-Kwong Lo: Scalable Quantum Computers: Paving the Way to Realization, Wiley-VCH, ISBN 3-527-40321-3
- Samuel L. Braunstein and Arun K. Pati: Quantum Information with Continuous Variables, Springer, ISBN 1-4020-1195-4
