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Friday, February 12, 2010

Researchers probe time travel as computing tool

Tackling the type of question usually reserved for science fiction, researchers from IQC and IBM recently investigated whether time travel can be utilized to solve difficult computational problems.IBM researchers Charles Bennett, Graeme Smith and John Smolin and IQC faculty member Debbie Leung examined whether "closed timelike curves" (CTCs), in which a particle's path through spacetime returns to its point of origin, can allow a computer to more efficiently solve difficult problems.
Although some
Thursday, February 11, 2010

The Quantum Tamers returns to TV

Award-winning documentary The Quantum Tamers: Revealing Our Weird and Wired Future, featuring IQC researchers Raymond Laflamme and Joseph Emerson, will air on TVO Feb. 16 & 17

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Quantum Grad Program Set for Fall 2010

A new graduate program in quantum information will commence at the University of Waterloo in Fall 2010, offering students an unprecedented breadth of study in the emerging field.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

IQC featured in Nature

The latest issue of Nature praises the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) for "tackling the broad questions in an exploding field" of science.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Conduct your research at IQC

WATERLOO, ONT., OCTOBER 27, 2009:
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is seeking two faculty members and a number of postdoctoral fellows to add to its growing complement of researchers. 
Located at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the IQC is home to the world's largest concentration of quantum information researchers.