Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Prestigious Award Goes to PhD Student
Gina Passante receives the NSERC Vanier Graduate Scholarship
Friday, May 1, 2009
Taking a Spin Around the Block
Large-scale quantum computing will require the manipulation of quantum states of a physical system with well-behaved internal degrees of freedom. The internal quantum 'spin' states of single electrons confined to tiny potential wells (known as quantum dots) provide one such physical system.
Although the spin states of single electrons are long-lived, they are notoriously difficult to prepare and read out.
Friday, April 17, 2009
NSERC Discovery Grants Announced
Dr. Lupascu receives highest grant for a newcomer
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Government of Canada Makes Strategic Investment in IQC
$50 million announcement made official
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Le gouvernement du Canada fait un investissement stratégique dans l'Institut d'informatique quantique
Photo: Mike Lazaridis, Peter Baird, Gary Goodyear, Harold Albrecht, David Johnston, Raymond Laflamme, and Stephen Woodworth.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Keeping a Quantum State Alive in an Optimal Way
Newly published research
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Awarding Canada's Top Science Prize
Congratulating IQC's Board Member, Paul Corkum
Friday, March 13, 2009
Two more Faculty Members join the IQC lineup
Welcoming Dr. Thomas Jennewein and Dr. Adrian Lupascu to IQC
Thursday, March 12, 2009
The Waterloo Bell - Bell for Kepler
Upcoming Public Lecture: Art and Society's Perpetual Disruption by the Ongoing Scientific Revolution