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
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.
The Quantum Software Consortium is building a new research community in the Netherlands in Quantum Information Science. But what is Quantum Information Science? You perhaps heard of the quantum computer.
A computer that fundamentally uses different physics laws than a classical computer does. But like a classical computer, also a quantum computer uses software - quantum software !
Sebastian de Bone (QuTech, TU Delft) and Julius de Hond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) created a website to give students and the general public an idea of how quantum key distribution works, and what it would be like to communicate through a quantum-encrypted channel. As an end user, you don't notice much, of course!
Sophie Hermans successfully defended her PhD thesis "Quantum Networks using Spins in Diamond" at Delft University of Technology on April 14, 2022. Ronald Hanson (QuTech, TU Delft) and Stephanie Wehner (QuTech, TU Delft) acted as promotors. The degree was awarded "cum laude".
De belangrijkste bouwstenen van de futuristische quantumcomputer zijn voor het eerst gemaakt in een fabriek voor ‘gewone’ computerchips. Daarmee zet deze toekomstcomputer een belangrijke stap naar de praktijk.
Uit de Volkskrant door George van Hal, 29 maart 2022, 17:01
It was with enthusiasm that I landed in Delft on a day of fine rain on November 1, 2021, thus marking the start of my internship at QuTech/TU Delft.
Op 16 januari 2022 is onze zeer gewaardeerde en geliefde collega prof. dr. Bas Edixhoven (Universiteit Leiden, Mathematisch Instituut) na een korte periode van ernstige ziekte overleden.
Stacey Jeffery, senior researcher at CWI and QuSoft in Amsterdam, is awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euro for research on Algorithms, Security and Complexity for Quantum Computers (ASC-Q). The grant helps ambitious younger researchers launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their best ideas.
After much anticipation, I finally arrived in Amsterdam on September 15, 2021 for my research master project at QuSoft/CWI. My project was very exciting.
A new podcast was launched starring Harry Buhrman, who explains some of the principles of quantum software and discusses why companies and societal organizations are already getting interested in understanding more about it.