The 4th QSC (Quantum Software Consortium) Quantum Training on post-quantum cryptography took place on June 29th and 30th, 2023, at the CWI Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre. Designed for PhD candidates, postdocs, and advanced MSc students, the training offered valuable insights into the implications of quantum computers on cryptography and quantum-safe cryptography.
Ronald de Wolf (CWI, UvA, QuSoft) and his co-authors will receive the prestigious Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science. The Gödel Prize is jointly awarded by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT) and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
The program is intended for excellent PhD students from abroad to spend some time at CWI.
The program will provide housing and a stipend for the guest.
Not only does Yevheniia Cheipesh (former QSC PhD-student) excel at her research, she is also active in outreach and started a collaboration outside her own field during her PhD. Cheipesh has been awarded the first prize in the For Women in Science Rising Talent Prize by L’Oreal, UNESCO and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) for her outstanding work.
Organizations should start migrating to a quantum-safe environment soon. On 4 April 2023, AIVD, TNO and CWI published a handbook for the migration to quantum-secure communications. Alexandra van Huffelen, State Secretary for digitization, was handed the first copy.
On April 12, His Majesty the King Willem-Alexander and President Emmanuel Macron paid an official visit to our Amsterdam hub for a tour of the Quantum Gases & Quantum Information Lab and a round table on the significance of quantum for European open strategic autonomy.
Source: QDNL news by Juliette de la Rie, 13 April 2023
Frankrijk en Nederland gaan meer samenwerken bij de ontwikkeling van quantumtechnologie. Dat raakt aan hét thema van het staatsbezoek van president Macron: Europese soevereiniteit.
Bron: NRC, Floor Bouma, 13 april 2023
A big congratulations to Anne-Marije, Postdoctoral Researcher at QuTech, on being awarded this year’s Minerva Prize! The prize is awarded yearly by the Netherlands’ Physical Society (NNV) to young and promising women and non-binary physicists who excel at experimental and/or theoretical physics.
Source: QDNL newsletter
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 4th QSC (Quantum Software Consortium) Quantum Training on post-quantum cryptography took place on June 29th and 30th, 2023, at the CWI Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre. Designed for PhD candidates, postdocs, and advanced MSc students, the training offered valuable insights into the implications of quantum computers on cryptography and quantum-safe cryptography.
Ronald de Wolf (CWI, UvA, QuSoft) and his co-authors will receive the prestigious Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science. The Gödel Prize is jointly awarded by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT) and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
The program is intended for excellent PhD students from abroad to spend some time at CWI.
The program will provide housing and a stipend for the guest.
Not only does Yevheniia Cheipesh (former QSC PhD-student) excel at her research, she is also active in outreach and started a collaboration outside her own field during her PhD. Cheipesh has been awarded the first prize in the For Women in Science Rising Talent Prize by L’Oreal, UNESCO and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) for her outstanding work.
Organizations should start migrating to a quantum-safe environment soon. On 4 April 2023, AIVD, TNO and CWI published a handbook for the migration to quantum-secure communications. Alexandra van Huffelen, State Secretary for digitization, was handed the first copy.
On April 12, His Majesty the King Willem-Alexander and President Emmanuel Macron paid an official visit to our Amsterdam hub for a tour of the Quantum Gases & Quantum Information Lab and a round table on the significance of quantum for European open strategic autonomy.
Source: QDNL news by Juliette de la Rie, 13 April 2023
Frankrijk en Nederland gaan meer samenwerken bij de ontwikkeling van quantumtechnologie. Dat raakt aan hét thema van het staatsbezoek van president Macron: Europese soevereiniteit.
Bron: NRC, Floor Bouma, 13 april 2023
A big congratulations to Anne-Marije, Postdoctoral Researcher at QuTech, on being awarded this year’s Minerva Prize! The prize is awarded yearly by the Netherlands’ Physical Society (NNV) to young and promising women and non-binary physicists who excel at experimental and/or theoretical physics.
Source: QDNL newsletter
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.