Julia Kempe

Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing.[1] Born in East Berlin to a Russian family there,[2] and educated in Austria, Australia, France, and the US, she holds positions as a researcher at CNRS and Paris Diderot University[3] and as a professor of computer science in Israel at Tel Aviv University.[4]

Education and career

Kempe grew up in East Berlin, but as a teenager in 1990 she moved with her parents to Vienna.[5] She did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna from 1992 to 1995, with a year as an exchange student in physics at the University of Technology Sydney. She then earned two Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) degrees in France, one in mathematics in 1996 from Pierre and Marie Curie University and another in 1997 in physics from the École Normale Supérieure. She completed two doctorates in 2001. The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from the École Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications was entitled Quantum Computing: Random Walks and Entanglement, and was supervised by Gérard Cohen. Her second Ph.D., in mathematics, was from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation entitled Universal Noiseless Quantum Computation: Theory and Applications and was jointly supervised by Elwyn Berlekamp and chemist K. Birgitta Whaley.[6]

She joined CNRS at the University of Paris-Sud in 2001 (overlapping with postdoctoral studies at Berkeley and the Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), joined the Tel Aviv University faculty in 2007, and moved her CNRS position from Paris-Sud to Paris Diderot in 2010.[6]

Awards and honors

In 2006, Kempe won the bronze medal of CNRS and the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize of the French government.[2][7] In 2009 she won the Krill Prize of the Wolf Foundation,[8] and in 2010 she won the "Women in Gold" trophy for her research.[1] Also in 2010, she became a knight in the National Order of Merit.[6]

Selected publications

  • DiVincenzo, D. P.; Bacon, D.; Kempe, J.; Burkard, G.; Whaley, K. B. (2000), "Universal quantum computation with the exchange interaction", Nature, 408: 339–342, arXiv:quant-ph/0005116, Bibcode:2000Natur.408..339D, doi:10.1038/35042541, PMID 11099036 .
  • Kempe, J.; Bacon, D.; Lidar, D. A.; Whaley, K. B. (2001), "Theory of decoherence-free fault-tolerant universal quantum computation", Physical Review A, 63 (4), arXiv:quant-ph/0004064, Bibcode:2001PhRvA..63d2307K, doi:10.1103/physreva.63.042307 .
  • Kempe, J. (2003), "Quantum random walks: An introductory overview", Contemporary Physics, 44 (4): 307–327, arXiv:quant-ph/0303081, Bibcode:2003ConPh..44..307K, doi:10.1080/00107151031000110776 .
  • Shenvi, Neil; Kempe, Julia; Whaley, K. Birgitta (2003), "Quantum random-walk search algorithm", Physical Review A, 67 (5), arXiv:quant-ph/0210064, Bibcode:2003PhRvA..67e2307S, doi:10.1103/physreva.67.052307 .
  • Aharonov, Dorit; van Dam, Wim; Kempe, Julia; Landau, Zeph; Lloyd, Seth; Regev, Oded (2007), "Adiabatic quantum computation is equivalent to standard quantum computation", SIAM Journal on Computing, 37 (1): 166–194, arXiv:quant-ph/0405098, doi:10.1137/S0097539705447323, MR 2306288 . Revised, SIAM Review 50 (4): 755–787, 2008, MR 2460803

References

  1. 1 2 Julia Kempe élue Femme en Or de la recherche 2010 (in French), CNRS, June 8, 2010, retrieved 2017-07-20
  2. 1 2 Chairopoulos, Patricia (July 2007), "Julia Kempe, Quantum Mechanic", CNRS International Magazine, vol. 7
  3. ↑ Julia Kempe, Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale, CNRS, Paris Diderot University, retrieved 2017-07-20
  4. ↑ Prof. Julia Kempe, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, retrieved 2017-07-20
  5. ↑ Pain, Elisabeth (May 11, 2007), "Still learning", Science
  6. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2017-07-20
  7. ↑ Cinquième édition du Prix Irène Joliot-Curie (in French), Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur de la Recherche et de l'Innovation, retrieved 2017-07-20
  8. ↑ Dr. Julia Kempe Winner of Krill Prize in Science - 2009, Wolf Foundation, retrieved 2017-07-20
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