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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.

From TEDxWaterloo, Feb. 25, 2010, The Gig Theatre, Kitchener, Ontario.

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 faculty Michele Mosca and Ashwin Nayak, together with former postdoctoral fellow Tzu-Chieh Wei, recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters investigating the computational complexity of bosons.

Michele Mosca, deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, has been named among Waterloo Region's "40 Under 40" for his outstanding contributions to the area's scientific landscape.

Prof. Joseph Emerson will speak about the quantum world at a public lecture on Wednesday March 3.