Stacey Jeffery appointed professor by special appointment of Quantum Information at UvA
QuSoft researcher Stacey Jeffery has been appointed professor by special appointment of Quantum Information at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She also stays affiliated with CWI as a senior researcher.
Gravity Grant for challenges in Cyber Security to Christian Schaffner and others
Cyber security is often portrayed as an educational problem or a resource problem, shifting blame on users, system administrators, or the budget holders limiting the system administrators’ abilities. However, there are many hard problems that remain unsolved and that require a coordinated scientific investigation. The “Challenges in Cyber Security” project brings together top researchers from […]
The end of 2023 marks the end of Harry Buhrman’s leadership at QuSoft
As of 15 December 2023, director of QuSoft and famous quantum researcher Harry Buhrman will start a new position. After leaving his position at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) he will begin as Chief Scientist Quantum Algorithms & Innovation at the world’s largest integrated quantum computing company Quantinuum, based in their London research centre. “I […]
Ten QuSoft papers were accepted at the Quantum Information Processing 2024 conference!
The Quantum Information Processing 2024 conference is one of the most important appointments for the theory and software side quantum science and technology.
Congratulation to Pietro Richelli for his QuSoft Master Certificate
Since 2021, QuSoft offers a certificate for MSc students at the University of Amsterdam that have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to quantum information science and have carried out their MSc thesis research project at QuSoft. Requirments for obtaining the certificate are: – Successful completion of three courses coming from at least two categories (see below). – […]
Large grant awarded to Quantum Application Lab
Quantum Application Lab has received the generous support of Quantum Delta NL to develop several projects within the next few years. QAL has been granted 600k euros to co-finance five new projects in the next years.
PhD defences in October
QuSoft is proud to announce that two junior members will defend their PhD theses this month: On October 12thMatteo MazzantiAgnietenkapel, 10:00Trapped Ions in Optical Tweezers. And Their Applications to Quantum ComputingPromotor: Rene Gerritsma. Copromotor: Arghavan Safavi Naini. On October 20th Ward VleeshouwersAula, 11:00Unitary Matrix Integrals, Long-Range Random Walks, and Spectral StatisticsPromotores: Cristiane de Morais Smith and Vladimir […]
QuSoft has a new director
We would like to congratulate Christian Schaffner for being appointed co-director of QuSoft, next to Harry Buhrman, and to thank wholeheartedly our former co-director Kareljan Schoutens for the many years of work
Will quantum computing help AI?
QuSoft is excited to welcome a new member on board, Amira Abbas, a young talented researcher who did her PhD in South Africa at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and collaborated with IBM Research and Google Quantum AI.
What can we do with a quantum computer? On the PhD thesis of Arjan Cornelissen.
As the first quantum computers (composed of few qubits) are already a reality, the natural question arises: what kind of problems can they solve?
