An International Conference in Honour of Abner Shimony Perimeter Institute
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Ontario, Canada July 18-21, 2006
Conference in Honour of Abner Shimony
IQC is pleased to have 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)
The Member Physical Society Topical Group on Quantum Information, Concepts, and Computation offers annual awards for student papers in theoretical research and experimental research. The first awards were presented at the 2006 APS Meeting in Baltimore.
WATERLOO, Ont. (March 23, 2006) -- The University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ welcomes today's tremendous announcement by the Ontario government of substantial investments in research and innovation in two À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ-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.
Nature publishes UW researchers' work on quantum information processing
WATERLOO, Ont. -- Researchers from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ'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.
Executive to head quantum institute
IQC researchers led by publish their experimental implementation of heat-bath algorithmic cooling in the prestigious international science journal Nature.