A masters and a PhD student at the Institute for Quantum Computing have each received thesis honours at the 2014 University of Waterloo convocation.
Michael Mazurek’s master’s thesis - Dispersion-cancelled imaging with chirped laser pulses – garnered him the University of Waterloo Dean of Science Award. The award is presented at convocation to one outstanding master's thesis from each department within the Faculty of Science. Mazurek is currently completing his PhD under the supervision of Canada Research Chair in Optical Quantum Technologies, Kevin Resch (Physics and Astronomy). Mazurek joins a prestigious group of IQC students who four out of the last five years have won a Dean of Science Award.
Jonathan Lavoie, who also studied with Kevin Resch, was awarded the W.B. Pearson Medal for his PhD thesis Experimental Quantum Information Processing with Photons. Lavoie is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Group of Applied Physics (GAP) at the University of Geneva.
- Steven Casagrande, Masters, Physics
- Grant Cleary, Masters, Physics
- Ben Criger, PhD, Physics
- Aimee Gunther, Masters, Physics (Quantum Information)
- Deny Hamel, PhD, Physics
- Om Patange, Masters, Physics
- Lydia Vermeyden, Masters, Physics (Quantum Information)
- Vadym Kliuchnikov, PhD, Computer Science (Quantum Information)
- Adam Paetznick, PhD, Computer Science (Quantum Information)
- Amin Eftekharian, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering