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Gerard J. Milburn

Early life

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Career

Milburn received his B.Sc.(Hons) in Physics from Griffith University in 1980. He completed his PhD in physics under Dan Walls at the University of Auckland in 1982, with a thesis entitled Squeezed States and Quantum Nondemolition Measurements.

After submitting his thesis Milburn was appointed to a postdoctoral research assistantship in the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, University of London in 1983. Later, in 1984, he was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship to work in the Quantum Optics group of Sir Peter Knight (scientist), at Imperial College.

In 1985 he returned to Australia and was appointed lecturer at The Australian National University. In 1988 Milburn took up an appointment as Reader in Theoretical Physics at The University of Queensland. In 1994 he was appointed as Professor of Physics and in 1996 became Head of Department of Physics at The University of Queensland. In 2000 he became Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology. He is currently an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland.

He was the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Institute for Quantum Computing and served on the scientific advisory committee for the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 2007 to 2010.

At present he is the Director and Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems.^[1]

Honors

His awards include the Moyal Medal for Mathematical Physics (awarded 2001 ^[2]) and Boas medal, (awarded in 2003). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1999), and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2005).

See also

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Selected bibliography

Popular publications

• "Schroedinger's Machines", (W. H. Freeman, 1997)
• "The Feynman Processor", (Allen and Unwin, 1998)

Academic publications

• D. F. Walls and G. J. Milburn Quantum Optics (Springer, 1994)
• Wiseman, Howard M.; Milburn, Gerard J. (2009). Quantum Measurement and Control. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 460. ISBN 978-0-521-80442-4.

Notes

External links

• Milburn's webpage
• Gerard J. Milburn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• An interview with Milburn

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