Qusoft researcher & CWI phd student Jordi Weggemans wins Lorentz graduation prize
CWI PhD student Jordi Weggemans has won the Lorentz Graduation Prize for Theoretical Physics 2021 for his master thesis on a new quantum algorithm. The prize is awarded by the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW). He was awarded the prize online on Monday 29 November 2021. The jury praised Weggemans for his exceptional and very accessible thesis and […]
Tremendous Boost for Quantum Research in the Amsterdam Ecosystem
Quantum Delta NL, the public-private foundation that was launched in 2020 with the mandate to coordinate and execute the Netherland’s National Agenda for Quantum Technology (NAQT), has been awarded €615 million from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy to power the advancement of quantum technology. This gives a tremendous boost to quantum […]
Quantum Delta NL awarded 615 million euro from Netherlands’ National Growth Fund to accelerate quantum technology
Funds will be used to train 2,000 researchers and engineers to scale 100 start-ups and to host three corporate R&D labs in the Netherlands by 2027. Monday, April 12, 2021 (Delft, Netherlands): Quantum Delta NL, the public-private foundation, which launched in 2020 with the mandate to coordinate and execute the Netherland’s National Agenda for Quantum […]
Michael Walter wins KNAW Early Career Award
Twelve young researchers, three from each of the four academic fields of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), received an KNAW Early Career Award. The prize is intended for researchers in the Netherlands who are at the start of their careers and who have innovative, original research ideas. The KNAW Early Career Award will […]
Harry Buhrman installed as a new member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Today, together with seventeen other researchers, Harry Burhman was installed as a new member of the The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Academy members, leading researchers from across all disciplines, are selected for their scientific and scholarly achievements and are appointed for life. Buhrman is a pioneer in the promising field of […]
Jana Sotáková wins best paper award at CRYPTO 2020
Jana Sotáková, PhD student at QuSoft and UvA, won the best-paper award at the IACR flagship conference CRYPTO 2020 for her article “Breaking the Decisional Diffie-Hellman Problem for Class Group Actions Using Genus Theory”. Jana works on post-quantum cryptography, which is the field designing and evaluating protocols that would replace the encryption that we use nowadays with ones that are […]
Michael Walter awarded NWO KLEIN-1 grant
An NWO KLEIN-1 grant worth up to € 350,000 has been awarded to Michael Walter for his project ‘Taming tensors – an optimization approach to computational invariant theory’. Michael will involve a PhD student in this project and also organize an international workshop on the topic. Subject of the project Intuition tells us that it […]
Yfke Dulek wins Information Thesis Prize
Yfke Dulek has won the Ngi-NGN Information Thesis Prize for Informatics and Information Science. The first prize consists of €5000 and is awarded by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (De Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen). PhD candidate at QuSoft Yfke Dulek wrote her Master’s thesis titled ‘Quantum Homomorphic Encryption for Polynomial-Sized Circuits’ […]
