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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)

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.