Students, teachers and other community members are all welcome to attend the annual Australian Institute of Physics (Qld branch) youth lecture, from 1pm next Wednesday (Sept 17) at CQU Rockhampton (Bldg 32/1.28).

Visiting lecturer Associate Professor Tim Ralph, from the University of Queensland's Centre for Quantum Computing, will discuss quantum teleportation. UQ is a recognised world leader in this area.

Recently Australian physicists joined a small, elite group of laboratories world-wide able to teleport quantum particles.

In this process tiny particles are destroyed in one location then recreated in another.

Assoc Prof Ralf will describe the strange world of quantum particles and how this amazing trick is achieved.

Unfortunately the techniques used to teleport quantum particles cannot be used to teleport people. Never-the-less teleportation is a useful technology which may one day lead to ultra-fast computers and super-secret communications.

Tim Ralph is a graduate of Macquarie University and obtained his PhD in Physics from the Australian National University. He is currently an Associate Professor and Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the University of Queensland and manages the Queensland node of the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology.

ENDS For details about this event call Dr Richard Metcalfe on 4930 9628.