A masters and a PhD student at the Institute for Quantum Computing have each received thesis honours at the 2014 University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ convocation.
The Institute for Quantum Computing presented five students with awards for excellent research and outreach activity.
IQC researchers, led by Thomas Jennewein, have been awarded $250,000 by the Canadian Space Agency to train and develop Canadian grad students through a space science and technology project.
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) funding will support (Physics and Astronomy) and his QEYSSat team in conducting a demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) between a receiver payload on an airborne platform and a transmitter on the ground.