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Saturday, October 3, 2015 11:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

2015 Open House

The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) will open its doors to all members of the community as part of Reunion at the University of Waterloo. Bring the whole family to discover the excitement of quantum mechanics and learn about the world-class research that is happening right here in our community!

Take a look at what's happening at this year's open house!

Thursday, October 15, 2015 10:00 am - Friday, March 11, 2016 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

LIGHT Illuminated at THEMUSEUM

Celebrating light and light-based technologies

LIGHT Illuminated celebrates the United Nation's International Year of Light. In this interactive exhibition at THEMUSEUM you can learn about the value and importance of light-based technologies by exploring a black-light room, playing with colour mixing stations, and trying to get through a laser maze.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: Nai-Hui Chia

How hard is deciding trivial versus non-trivial in the dihedral coset problem

Nai-Hui Chia, Pennsylvania State University

The dihedral coset problem (DCP) is an important open problem in quantum algorithms and has been studied since the early days of quantum computing. This problem attracts attention even from experts in cryptography due to its application to the lattice-based cryptosystems. It has been shown by Oded Regev in 2005 that the DCP has deep connections to the unique shortest vector problem and the random subset sum problem.

Monday, December 14, 2015 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: Xingshan Cui

Quantum Max-flow/Min-cut

Xingshan Cui, University of California, Santa Barbara

The classical max-flow min-cut theorem describes transport through certain idealized classical networks. We consider the quantum analog for tensor networks. By associating a tensor to each node in an integral flow network, we can also interpret it as a tensor network, and more specifically, as a linear map.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: Edward Chen

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond nanophotonic structures for quantum networking

Edward Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The exceptional optical and spin properties of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond have led to a wide range of hallmark demonstrations ranging from super-resolution imaging to quantum entanglement, teleportation, and sensing. The solid-state environment of the NV allows us to engineer nano-structures that can enhance the properties of the NV and improve the readout and initialization fidelities of the spin.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The detection of gravitational waves on earth

Public lecture by Bill Unruh, The University of British Columbia

On February 11, 2016 it was announced that gravitational  waves have been detected affecting an instrument on earth. In addition to the realization of a 100 year old prediction the astounding sensitivity of the detector demanded the approaching and overcoming of seemingly fundamental quantum limits on measuring the motion of 25Kg masses. Quantum mechanics is usually thought of applying only to the very small (zeptogrammes and nanometers).