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.
Workshop organizers:
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.
Workshop Dates: June 11- 14
Location: Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
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 school will consist of five consecutive days of talks that cover the basics of quantum information processing as well as more advanced topics, including:
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
On March 12-15, 2007 IQC and NII will be hosting the first NII-Waterloo Workshop on the Design of Devices for Distributed Quantum Computation at the Institute for Quantum Computing.
Principal Organizers:
NII
Rodney Van Meter
Kae Nemoto
Waterloo, IQC
Norbert Lütkenhaus
Raymond Laflamme
IQC hosted an internal Qcrypto workshop on Thursday February 22, 2007, organized by Dr. Norbert Lütkenhaus. The workshop brought together IQC members working on Qcrypto for discussion of current research projects.
10:00-10:15 Chris Erven "The QKD set up at IQC using Parametric Downconversion"
10:15-10:30 Debbie Leung "Locking Information and Composability of QKD"
10:30-10:45 Douglas Stebila "Cryptographic Protocols on a trusted repeater network"
Officials from the National Research Council (NRC), including its president, Pierre Coulombe, visited campus yesterday to sign a memorandum of agreement.