IQC welcomes Vern Paulsen as newest faculty member

As Vern Paulsen joins the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Pure Mathematics as Professor, the Institute for Quantum Computing now collaborates with a seventh department at the University of Waterloo.

Paulsen was a faculty member at the University of Houston for 36 years in a variety of roles including Director of Graduate Studies and the John and Rebecca Moores Professor. He has also acted as a Visiting Fellow and Professor at several universities including The Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, the Mittag-Leffler Institute, University of Cambridge, the University of Indiana and SUNY at Stony Brook.

His research interests have focused on operator theory, operator algebras, frame theory, C*-algebras and quantum information theory. He has been involved in the Quantum Information Technology (QIT) programs at Sweden's Mittag-Leffler Institute and Cambridge's Isaac Newton Institute.

His group aims to:

• Study the theoretical limits on the amount of information that can be communicated over a noisy channel.
• Study differences between random quantum strategies and random classical strategies.
• Develop algorithms for finding combinatorial games that have winning quantum strategies.

He has written four graduate level texts in mathematics, published over 100 research articles and won several teaching awards.