Friday, September 22, 2006
New Faculty Arrival
Andrew Childs, a new member of the Institute's faculty, has joined this summer
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
IQC is a sponsor of the Quantum Cryptography and Computing Workshop
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).
Friday, June 23, 2006
Spintronics Workshop
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.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle
An International Conference in Honour of Abner Shimony Perimeter Institute
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada July 18-21, 2006
Conference in Honour of Abner Shimony
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Anthony J. Leggett Seminar Series
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)
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
IQC Sponsors American Physical Society Experimental Research Paper Competition Award
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.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
UW welcomes provincial government's investments in research and innovation
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.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
IQC researchers have paper published in Nature.
Nature publishes UW researchers' work on quantum information processing
WATERLOO, Ont. -- Researchers from the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), in a paper published in Nature, have taken a major step forward in finding out how to make quantum information processing devices more powerful than today's computers.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Dr. David Fransen appointed Executive Director of IQC.
Executive to head quantum institute
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Breakthrough experiment featured in Nature
IQC researchers led by Dr. Jonathan Baugh publish their experimental implementation of heat-bath algorithmic cooling in the prestigious international science journal Nature.