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Friday, February 23, 2007

Internal IQC-Qcrypto Workshop

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"

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Waterloo and NRC sign quantum memo

Officials from the National Research Council (NRC), including its president, Pierre Coulombe, visited campus yesterday to sign a memorandum of agreement.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Nobel physicist joins UW faculty

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

Friday, December 22, 2006

Taming the Quantum World 2007

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.

Friday, November 24, 2006

CFI Grant Approved!

From Nano Structures to Quantum Information Processing: A Technology Incubator for the 21st Century

Monday, November 6, 2006

Workshop on Quantum Algorithms for Simulating Physical Systems

Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
November 8-9, 2006

The purpose of this workshop is to consider the problem of efficiently simulating various quantum physical systems by quantum algorithms, particularly quantum field theories.The goals are to clearly formulate the problems and determine the feasibility of solving them. A more general goal is to improve interactions between different communities that have an interest in quantum field theories and quantum computing.

Monday, October 2, 2006

Recipients of Early Researcher Awards (ERA)

The Early Researcher Award program (ERA) is a new program that aims to help promising, recently-appointed Ontario researchers build their research teams of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research associates.

The ultimate goal of the program is to improve Ontario's ability to attract and retain the best and brightest research talent in high-priority economic areas.

Monday, October 2, 2006

New National Network At IQC Will Ensure Canada's Quantum Capacity

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006 - 12:20 ET

WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Sept. 25, 2006) - A new national network, headquartered at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), will ensure that research laboratories and tomorrow's workforce are populated with quantum-aware graduates. It will also provide made-in-Canada breakthroughs, protect them and promote them to private and public sectors.