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The University of Waterloo today announced the appointment of Steve MacLean, former president of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and Harvard professor Amir Yacoby as new members of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)

MacLean joins IQC as an associate member and Yacoby is appointed as a visiting professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and as the Distinguished Research Chair in Condensed Matter.

diagram of undamental Tests of the Structure of Quantum Information with Neutron Interferometry

IQC researchers Joseph Emerson, David Cory and Dmitry Pushin receive grant for research on “Fundamental Tests of the Structure of Quantum Information with Neutron Interferometry”

Co-authors Anne Broadbent, Gus Gutoski and Douglas Stebila have a research paper accepted at the prestigious cryptology conference CRYPTO 2013, August 18 to 22

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Recognizing excellence in communications for 2012 Annual Report.

students at IQC Quantum Key Distribution Summer School

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from around the world gathered at IQC to discuss quantum cryptography at the QKD Summer School.

The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) welcomed 61 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from around the world to the International Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Summer School, held at the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre from July 29 to August 2.

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CryptoWorks21 hosted two workshops at the Institute for Quantum Computing in July to provide professional knowledge and technical skills.

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Discussing progress in quantum cryptography research

This week researchers and students from around the globe gather at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) for QCrypt to review the progress made in the field of quantum cryptography research in the past year.