René Allerstorfer will defend his thesis titled Position-based Quantum Cryptography: From Theory towards practice. His Promotor is Harry Buhrman and the Co-Promotor Florian Speelman. The ceremony will take place on October 28th at 14:00 in the Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam.  There will also be a livestream available at this link.

Yanlin Chen (Promotor: Ronald de Wolf, Co-Promotor: Māris Ozols) will defend his thesis titled On Quantum Algorithms and Limitations for Convex Optimization and Lattice Problems. His Promotor and Co-promotor are Ronald de Wolf and Māris Ozols respectively. The ceremony will take place on November 21st at 10:00 in the Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam. Livestream at this link.

The QuSoft community wishes the best of luck and a great success to both René and Yanlin.