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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.

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.

Leggett has been awarded the newly created position of Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Distinguished Research Chair

This international gathering for scientists is a joint program from Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in Waterloo.

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IQC is currently accepting applications for various faculty positions