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Innate curiosity is the driving force behind all great science, IQC director Raymond Laflamme writes in the new issue of Motivated Magazine" a publication that profiles exceptional leaders. "Curiosity is the force that drives everything I do," Laflamme writes in the 1,500-word article, "from getting my hands greasy under the hood of my 1979 VW van to manipulating the subatomic particles of the quantum world. And I love to inspire curiosity in others."

An agreement signed between IQC and Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies will foster the exchange of leading-edge expertise, personnel and resources.

IQC faculty Michele Mosca and Ashwin Nayak, together with former postdoctoral fellow Tzu-Chieh Wei, recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters investigating the computational complexity of bosons.

IQC Director Raymond Laflamme explored the power of curiosity during his talk at the inaugural TEDxWaterloo conference this week. "Curiosity is a thread that runs through all of us," Laflamme told an audience of roughly 350 at The Gig Theatre in downtown Kitchener.

Michele Mosca, deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, has been named among Waterloo Region's "40 Under 40" for his outstanding contributions to the area's scientific landscape.

Prof. Joseph Emerson will speak about the quantum world at a public lecture on Wednesday March 3.

Tackling the type of question usually reserved for science fiction, researchers from IQC and IBM recently investigated whether time travel can be utilized to solve difficult computational problems.IBM researchers Charles Bennett, Graeme Smith and John Smolin and IQC faculty member Debbie Leung examined whether "closed timelike curves" (CTCs), in which a particle's path through spacetime returns to its point of origin, can allow a computer to more efficiently solve difficult problems.

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Award-winning documentary The Quantum Tamers: Revealing Our Weird and Wired Future, featuring IQC researchers Raymond Laflamme and Joseph Emerson, will air on TVO Feb. 16 & 17

IQC faculty members receive international grant for collaborative project on quantum cryptography.

IQC Director Raymond Laflamme will be among a renowned group of speakers at the inaugural TEDxWaterloo event, a symposium about big ideas that are shaping the future.

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