Gerard J. Milburn
{{Short description|Australian physicist}}
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| name = Gerard Milburn
| birth_name = Gerard James Milburn
| image = Gerard Milburn Royal Society.jpg
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| caption = Gerard Milburn at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}}
| birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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| nationality = Australian
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| fields = Physicist
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
- University of Queensland
- Australian National University
- Imperial College London
- University of Waikato
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| doctoral_advisor = Daniel Frank Walls{{cite journal|last1=Knight|first1=Peter|author-link1=Peter Knight (scientist)|last2=Milburn|first2=Gerard J.|author-link2=Gerard J. Milburn|title=Daniel Frank Walls FRSNZ. 13 September 1942 – 12 May 1999|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|publisher=Royal Society publishing|year=2015|volume=61|pages=531–540|issn=0080-4606|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2014.0019|s2cid=77660162}}
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| doctoral_students = Howard M. Wiseman{{MathGenealogy|114511}}
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| website = {{URL|smp.uq.edu.au/node/106/19}}
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Gerard James Milburn (born 1958) is an Australian theoretical quantum physicist notable for his work on quantum feedback control, quantum measurements, quantum information, open quantum systems, and Linear optical quantum computing (aka the Knill, Laflamme and Milburn scheme)."Schroedinger's Machines", (W. H. Freeman, 1997)"The Feynman Processor", (Allen and Unwin, 1998)D. F. Walls and G. J. Milburn Quantum Optics (Springer, 1994){{cite book |title= Quantum Measurement and Control|url= https://archive.org/details/quantummeasureme00wise|url-access= limited|last= Wiseman|first= Howard M.|author2=Milburn, Gerard J. |year= 2009|publisher= Cambridge University Press|location= Cambridge; New York City|isbn= 978-0-521-80442-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/quantummeasureme00wise/page/n477 460] }}[http://archive.sciencewatch.com/ana/st/quantum/10junSTQuanMilb/ An interview with Gerard J. Milburn]
Education
Milburn received his BSc (Hons) in Physics from Griffith University in 1980. He completed his PhD in physics under Daniel Frank Walls at the University of Waikato in 1982, with a thesis entitled Squeezed States and Quantum Nondemolition Measurements.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
Career and Research
Following his PhD, Milburn did postdoctoral research in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London in 1983.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} Later, in 1984, he was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship to work in the Quantum Optics group of Peter Knight, at Imperial.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}
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. From 2000 to 2010 he was Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology. From 2003 to 2013 he was 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.{{citation needed |date=July 2017}}
From 2011 to 2017 he was the Director and Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems.{{cite web|url=http://equs.org/overview|title=Overview | ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems|publisher=equs.org|access-date=10 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518083350/http://equs.org/overview|archive-date=18 May 2015}}
=Honors and awards =
His awards include the Moyal Medal for Mathematical Physics (awarded 2001{{cite web|url=https://maths.mq.edu.au/moyal-medal/medallists/|title=Moyal Medallists – Department of Mathematics|publisher=maths.mq.edu.au|access-date=10 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508064358/http://maths.mq.edu.au/moyal-medal/medallists/|archive-date=8 May 2015}}) and Boas medal, (awarded in 2003). He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1999), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2005), and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/gerard-milburn-13405/|title=Gerard Milburn|publisher=royalsociety.org|access-date=6 May 2017|author=Anon|year=2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505140327/https://royalsociety.org/people/gerard-milburn-13405/|archive-date=5 May 2017}}
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Category:Scientists from Brisbane
Category:Australian physicists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Queensland
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Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science