{"id":3734,"date":"2010-01-29T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2010-01-29T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:30:45","slug":"quantum-information-graduate-program-at-waterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/01\/29\/quantum-information-graduate-program-at-waterloo\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Information Graduate Program at Waterloo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Waterloo is adding a quantum information graduate program, one step closer to being able to get a Ph.D. purely in quantum information. Application details here<\/a>. Description of the program below the fold.
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About the Program
\nThe University of Waterloo, in collaboration with the Institute for Quantum Computing, offers graduate students unique opportunities to learn about and engage in world-leading research in quantum information through a wide range of advanced research projects and advanced courses on the foundations, applications and implementations of quantum information processing.
\nThe new collaborative graduate program in Quantum Information leads to MMath, MSc, MASc, and PhD degrees. Students complete the requirements of both their home program and the specific requirements of the quantum information (QI) program to achieve the special QI designation. (E.g., MMath in Computer Science (Quantum Information), PhD in Chemistry (Quantum Information), MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Quantum Information)).
\nMMath, MSc, and MASc students will receive a strong and broad foundation in quantum information science, coupled with knowledge and expertise from their home program. This will prepare them for the workforce or further graduate studies and research leading towards a PhD.
\nPhD students will be prepared for careers as scholars and researchers, with advanced expertise in quantum information science, along with the focus of their home program. The new program is designed to provide knowledge of quantum information, including theory and implementations, their home program discipline, and also developed advanced expertise in their particular research area within quantum information.
\nAt present, IQC has a critical mass of expertise in several major research areas within quantum information, including:
\nQuantum Algorithms and Complexity
\nQuantum Information and Communication
\nQuantum Cryptography
\nQuantum Error Correction and Fault-tolerance
\nSpin-based implementations
\nQuantum Optics-based implementations
\nNanoelectronics-based implementations.
\nNew State-of-the-Art Building
\nIn line with the expansion goals of the Institute for Quantum Computing, a new, state-of-the-art building for the Institute is on the way, as part of the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC). The building will contain a new fabrication and metrology facility, and a suite of laboratories for research in areas including quantum optics, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron spin resonance (ESR), quantum dots, superconducting qubits, coherent spintronics and quantum cryptography. The building will host IQC researchers from all three faculties (Engineering, Mathematics and Science) starting in 2011, and will have formal and informal meeting spaces designed to facilitate interaction and interdisciplinary research.
\nCourses
\nStudents in all three faculties will be required to take two core quantum information courses (and must also meet the course requirements of their home program). These interdisciplinary courses provide a strong foundation in quantum information science.
\nThe two required core quantum information courses are:
\nQIC 710: Quantum Information Processing
\nQIC 750: Implementation of Quantum Information Processing
\nPhD students are also required to take two additional courses in quantum information, and fulfill a research seminar requirement, a comprehensive exam and a thesis in quantum information
\nIn addition to the two core courses, students will be able to take a wide range of advanced courses within quantum information, offered by leading researchers in the field.
\nEligible supervisors include the core IQC faculty:
\nJonathan Baugh
\nAndrew Childs
\nRichard Cleve
\nJoseph Emerson
\nThomas Jennewein
\nRaymond Laflamme
\nDebbie Leung
\nAdrian Lupascu
\nNorbert L\u221a\u00batkenhaus
\nHamed Majedi
\nMichele Mosca
\nAshwin Nayak
\nBen Reichardt
\nKevin Resch
\nJohn Watrous
\nFrank Wilhelm
\nas well as a wide range of Associate and Affiliate Members of IQC and the University of Waterloo, including:
\nDaniel Gottesman
\nThorsten Hesjedal
\nAchim Kempf
\nDavid Kribs
\nJan Kycia
\nAnthony Leggett
\nRobert Mann
\nJames Martin
\nRoger Melko
\nBill Power
\nPierre-Nicholas Roy
\nContact Information:
\nInquiries can be directed to Michele Mosca, Program Director at grad [at symbol]iqc.ca .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The list of advisors is impressive, rivaled by no other university in quantum computing as far as I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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