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IQC Deputy Director Michele Mosca has been promoted to the prestigious position of Fellow in the Quantum Information Processing program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

Anne Broadbent, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing, finds balance between her leading-edge scientific research and her family life on a 10-acre farm nicknamed Windy Poplars.

In a feature published last weekend in The Waterloo Region Record, Broadbent said mathematics has an "elegance" that has always attracted her, not unlike the rustic beauty of her homestead northwest of Waterloo.Broadbent introduced readers to her husband, Didier Guignard, their seven-month-old son Danny, and the family pet, a Bernese mountain dog named Berny.

IQC Director Raymond Laflamme will host a special screening of the award-winning documentary The Quantum Tamers in Ottawa on April 28. The screening, part of an alumni reception for University of Waterloo and Carleton graduates, will be followed by a Q&A session with Laflamme, who was a scientific advisor and co-star of the film.

Creating a large-scale quantum computer is an ambitious but achievable goal requiring research in many experimental fields, says a recent article in Nature co-authored by IQC Director Raymond Laflamme. "As we approach this goal, we will grow accustomed to controlling the counterintuitive properties of quantum mechanics," write Laflamme, Thaddeus Ladd, Fedor Jelezko, Yasunobu Nakamura, Christopher Monroe and Jeremy O'Brien.

Innate curiosity is the driving force behind all great science, IQC director Raymond Laflamme writes in the new issue of Motivated Magazine" a publication that profiles exceptional leaders. "Curiosity is the force that drives everything I do," Laflamme writes in the 1,500-word article, "from getting my hands greasy under the hood of my 1979 VW van to manipulating the subatomic particles of the quantum world. And I love to inspire curiosity in others."

IQC Director Raymond Laflamme explored the power of curiosity during his talk at the inaugural TEDxWaterloo conference this week. "Curiosity is a thread that runs through all of us," Laflamme told an audience of roughly 350 at The Gig Theatre in downtown Kitchener.