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SEPTEMBER 25, 2006 - 12:20 ET

WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Sept. 25, 2006) - A new national network, headquartered at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), will ensure that research laboratories and tomorrow's workforce are populated with quantum-aware graduates. It will also provide made-in-Canada breakthroughs, protect them and promote them to private and public sectors.

September 27-28, 2006
Waterloo Inn, Waterloo, Ontario

QuantumWorks is a new, NSERC-funded Innovation Platform that features a national network to link Canadian researchers with industrial and government agency partners. QuantumWorks will lead Canada into the next technological revolution - that of Quantum Information.

Andrew Childs, a new member of the Institute's faculty, has joined this summer

Quantum Cryptography and Computing Workshop being held at the Fields Institute, October 2-6, 2006.

The organizers are Richard Cleve (IQC & PI, Waterloo), Claude Crépeau(McGill), Michele Mosca (IQC & PI, Waterloo).

There will be another Spintronics workshop with IQC and MIT participants.

Date: June 27-28th, 2006
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: BFG2125

The goal is to exchange ideas, give an update, and plan a variety of projects that we are doing either together or complement each other.

An International Conference in Honour of Abner Shimony Perimeter Institute

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada July 18-21, 2006

Conference in Honour of Abner Shimony

IQC is pleased to have Anthony J. Leggett from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as a long-term visiting professor from May 15 to July 31, 2006. While at IQC he will be hosting an informal seminar series. These lectures will concentrate on microscopic theory of superconductivity and ending with material on superconducting qubits.

Location BFG 2125
Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (May 18, 25; June 15-29; July 6)
Friday 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. (May 19, 26; June 16-30; July 7)

The Member Physical Society Topical Group on Quantum Information, Concepts, and Computation offers annual awards for student papers in theoretical research and experimental research. The first awards were presented at the 2006 APS Meeting in Baltimore.

WATERLOO, Ont. (March 23, 2006) -- The University of Waterloo welcomes today's tremendous announcement by the Ontario government of substantial investments in research and innovation in two Waterloo-based institutes.

At Queen's Park this afternoon, in the budget announcement, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan pledged $100 million in new support: $50 million for the Institute for Quantum Computing at UW; and $50 million for the neighbouring Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

UW President David Johnston voiced praise for the far-reaching announcement.