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Waterloo named the World's Top Intelligent Community 2007

The Intelligent Communities Forum (ICF) has recognized Waterloo as being the world's Top Intelligent Community 2007, an honour that acknowledges the community that best exemplifies the development of a prosperous economy based on broadband and information technology.

One of the Educational Initiatives includes Research in Motion (RIM) and the Institute for Quantum Computing.

The Graduate Student Research Conference 2007 was held on April 23-26, 2007, the goal of the UW Graduate Student Research Conference is:

IQC is proud to announce that Sir Anthony Leggett will be returning to give a series of lectures on "Quantum many-body systems of interest and quantum computation and communication". We hope you can join us.

The Randomization Workshop was a success, it brought together mathematicians, physicists and computing scientists who have been working on randomization and the geometrical features of Hilbert space and brings focus to the interdisciplinary aspects and open problems in this emerging area.

Conference organizers:

Joseph Emerson
Andris Ambainis

Steady progress is being made in a variety of directions in the area of quantum algorithms and complexity theory, with repercussions in areas as diverse as classical complexity theory, cryptography, condensed matter physics, and combinatorics.

Quantum Key Distribution is the most advanced application of Quantum Information Science. It reached already the world of commercial implementation. At the same time, fundamental questions remain that might broaden the application spectrum of this basic idea.

The goal of this summer school is to introduce a general audience of computer scientists,physicists, and mathematicians with little or no background in quantum information processing to the exciting and growing field of quantum information science. This is the 7th in a series of summer schools that have been held in Canada.

The purpose of this meeting is to stimulate further collaboration in the area related to quantum cryptography, especially quantum key distribution (QKD).

As the physical implementations of QKD mature, questions of embedding of QKD devices into real security networks arise. Moreover, we have to leave the simple point-to-point connection model and take advantage of network architecture, for example using trusted nodes.

On Tuesday February 27, Martin Laforest a graduate student at IQC will be hosting a workshop for grade 10 students in the Waterloo Unlimited Program. The title of his talk is "Peering into the strange world of Quantum Mechanics".

Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni, UW Events are invited to attend.

This wine and cheese reception is a celebration of seven recently published books written by St. Jerome's faculty members including Carol Acton, Maureen Drysdale, B.J. Rye, Dorothy Hadfield, Michele Mosca, Norm Klassen, Whitney Lackenbauer and Ken McLaughlin.

When: Thursday, March 1 from 4:30pm to 7:30pm

Where: Fireside Lounge, Sweeney Hall, St. Jerome's University