On February 23, the Dutch Research Council NWO announced that Stephanie Wehner (PI of QSC) receives a Vici grant. The grant is aimed at senior researchers who have successfully demonstrated the ability to develop their own innovative line of research. Wehner is one of twelve researchers in the Science Domain who receive this grant.
Source: QuTech
Freek Witteveen, who did his PhD research at QuSoft, has been awarded the Stieltjesprijs for the academic year 2021-2022. In his work he has contributed to the understanding of how to use quantum information theory to better describe many-body physics.
Source: QuSoft, March 3, 2023
The €15m QDNL Participations fund will help researchers turn their technology into VC-investable startups, and support more established companies. Funds are fully committed by Quantum Delta NL, a foundation committed to scaling the Dutch quantum technology ecosystem. ‘Infinity’, a free, on-call support program has also launched to help quantum researchers spin out and raise their first investment.
Source: QDNL News, Martin Bryant
QuSoft wetenschapper Harry Buhrman legt in deze podcast uit hoe deeltjes op hetzelfde moment op twee plaatsen tegelijk kunnen zijn. Deze bizarre eigenschap kan een computer in de toekomst miljoenen keren sneller maken.
Source: Verrukkelijke Wetenschap van Daan en Merlijn Schneiders.
A prison for ions and cold atoms for a unique quantum simulator? Checking the geographical position of a bank computer with quantum verification? Quantum optics to see if a communication network has been tampered with? These are three of 16 futuristic projects within the National Growth Fund programme Quantum Technology organised by Quantum Delta NL in collaboration with NWO. In total, more than €5.3 million is involved.
Source: QDNL News, by Juliette de la Rie.
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The international conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) is the premier annual meeting for quantum information research. Hence, we are very happy and excited to see so many QuSoft researchers at QIP 2023.
Below you can find a list of all the accepted QuSoft talks. This year QIP will be held in Ghent, Belgium. More information can be found here.
The 5th QSC Junior Day was held on a rainy day in Leiden, which made the welcoming warm tea and coffee perfect to shake off the feeling of wetness and cold. After eating some fruit and cookies, to recover from the bike/walk from the station, Tim Coopmans started the round of talks explaining how entanglement works and its different challenges.
On November 8th, the EQSI–European Quantum Software Institute was launched with a stakeholder event in Paris. One of the founding members is the director of QuSoft, Harry Buhrman according to whom “this is an important step towards a strong European ecosystem in quantum software” and our continuous commitment to scientific excellence and responsible innovation at the European level.
The worldwide race to the quantum computer is in full swing. This computer can take on computing tasks that we can only dream of today, such as finding proteins that can be used as medicines in seconds flat. Leiden physicists have discovered how the Majorana particle can be used as a building block for this quantum computer. Together with research groups in Delft, they hope to build the first quantum computer.
On February 23, the Dutch Research Council NWO announced that Stephanie Wehner (PI of QSC) receives a Vici grant. The grant is aimed at senior researchers who have successfully demonstrated the ability to develop their own innovative line of research. Wehner is one of twelve researchers in the Science Domain who receive this grant.
Source: QuTech
Freek Witteveen, who did his PhD research at QuSoft, has been awarded the Stieltjesprijs for the academic year 2021-2022. In his work he has contributed to the understanding of how to use quantum information theory to better describe many-body physics.
Source: QuSoft, March 3, 2023
The €15m QDNL Participations fund will help researchers turn their technology into VC-investable startups, and support more established companies. Funds are fully committed by Quantum Delta NL, a foundation committed to scaling the Dutch quantum technology ecosystem. ‘Infinity’, a free, on-call support program has also launched to help quantum researchers spin out and raise their first investment.
Source: QDNL News, Martin Bryant
QuSoft wetenschapper Harry Buhrman legt in deze podcast uit hoe deeltjes op hetzelfde moment op twee plaatsen tegelijk kunnen zijn. Deze bizarre eigenschap kan een computer in de toekomst miljoenen keren sneller maken.
Source: Verrukkelijke Wetenschap van Daan en Merlijn Schneiders.
A prison for ions and cold atoms for a unique quantum simulator? Checking the geographical position of a bank computer with quantum verification? Quantum optics to see if a communication network has been tampered with? These are three of 16 futuristic projects within the National Growth Fund programme Quantum Technology organised by Quantum Delta NL in collaboration with NWO. In total, more than €5.3 million is involved.
Source: QDNL News, by Juliette de la Rie.
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The international conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) is the premier annual meeting for quantum information research. Hence, we are very happy and excited to see so many QuSoft researchers at QIP 2023.
Below you can find a list of all the accepted QuSoft talks. This year QIP will be held in Ghent, Belgium. More information can be found here.
The 5th QSC Junior Day was held on a rainy day in Leiden, which made the welcoming warm tea and coffee perfect to shake off the feeling of wetness and cold. After eating some fruit and cookies, to recover from the bike/walk from the station, Tim Coopmans started the round of talks explaining how entanglement works and its different challenges.
On November 8th, the EQSI–European Quantum Software Institute was launched with a stakeholder event in Paris. One of the founding members is the director of QuSoft, Harry Buhrman according to whom “this is an important step towards a strong European ecosystem in quantum software” and our continuous commitment to scientific excellence and responsible innovation at the European level.
The worldwide race to the quantum computer is in full swing. This computer can take on computing tasks that we can only dream of today, such as finding proteins that can be used as medicines in seconds flat. Leiden physicists have discovered how the Majorana particle can be used as a building block for this quantum computer. Together with research groups in Delft, they hope to build the first quantum computer.
Een interview in de NRC met twee prijswinnaars: Gilles Brassard en Charles Bennett zijn de winnaars van een belangrijke natuurkundeprijs, de Breakthrough Prize in fundamentele natuurkunde 2023. Hoe lang is veilige communicatie nog mogelijk, nu quantumcomputers in aantocht zijn? Dan is quantumcryptografie hard nodig.
Bron: NRC, Dorine Schenk, 27 nov 2022.
Last Friday, November 11, 2022, the celebrated quantum information scientists and longtime collaborators Charlie Bennet and Gilles Brassard joined us for a special edition of the Qusoft seminar in celebration of them being awarded the Breakthrough prize in Physics, together with Peter Shor and David Deutsch. Showing themselves as masters of their craft, both Gilles and Charlie gave thought-provoking (and often quite funny) talks.
Het Twentse bedrijf Quix Quantum heeft als eerste Nederlandse bedrijf een bepaald soort kwantumcomputer verkocht. Het Duitse lucht-en ruimtevaartinstituut (DLR) kan hem over vier jaar gebruiken. "Deze technologie kan ons leven veranderen."
Bron: RTL Nieuws
Dr. Christian Schaffner has been appointed professor of Theoretical Computer Science, with special attention to quantum computing, at the Informatics Institute of the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Christian Schaffner is chairman of the QSC Talent & Outreach Committee.
QuSoft congratulates Professor dr. Gilles Brassard who has been awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his foundational work in quantum information. He currently performs as “Turing Chair for Quantum Software” at the University of Amsterdam for the second time, until November 2022.
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has elected 22 new members, including QuTech professor Stephanie Wehner. Academy members, leading researchers from across all the disciplines, are selected for their scientific and scholarly achievements.
Serge Adonsou worked on a variant of the hidden shift problem under the supervision of Dr Peter Bruin (Leiden University) and Dr Maris Ozols (University of Amsterdam).
On 23 June 2022, CWI researcher Ronald de Wolf and his co-authors received the prestigious ACM STOC 10-year Test of Time Award during the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), one of the most important conferences in theoretical computer science.
Sophie Hermans | quantumfysicus. Het Delftse instituut QuTech werkt aan het quantuminternet. Daarmee kan bijvoorbeeld het ‘gewone’ internet veiliger worden.
Uit de NRC 29 mei 2022, van Dorine Schenk
CWI launches the Constance van Eeden PhD Fellowship with two videos and through social media (Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram). CWI offers a special PhD position to a talented young female student in mathematics, computer science or a related field, e.g. chemistry, biology, ICT physics or econometrics.