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    • Integrated Quantum Optoelectronics Laboratory
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    • Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students 2010
    • Quantum Money
    • Quantum Signatures of Chaos
    • Small-Depth Quantum Circuits: A Survey
    • Quantum Information Processing with Spins and Superconductors
    • Cross-Border Workshop on Laser Science 2010
    • IQC Summer Golf Tournament
    • Open House & Doors Open Waterloo Region 2010
    • Theory and Realization of Practical Quantum Key Distribution 2010
    • USEQIP 2010
    • David Cory Public Lecture
    • Spin qubits in semiconductor and graphene quantum dots
    • Unified framework for correlations in terms of local quantum observables
    • ESR Imaging and Magnetometry using NV Diamond
    • Sir Anthony Leggett Lecture Series 2010
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    • Extreme Spin Squeezing in Cold Trapped Atomic Ensembles
    • Discrete- and continuous-time quantum walks with single photons
    • Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms Part 1
    • Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms Part 2
    • USEQIP 2011
    • Robert Raussendorf: The 2D AKLT state is universal for measurement-based quantum computation.
    • Norm embeddings, uncertainty relations and information locking
    • Britton Plourde: Superconducting resonators for quantum information science: loss and amplification
    • Todd Pittman: Photonic quantum computing using forced fermion-like behavior
    • Mike Geller: Quantum Information Processing with Prethreshold Superconducting Qubits
    • Patrick Hayden: Quantum information as asymptotic geometry
    • Adrian Lupascu: Quantum superconducting circuits
    • Nathan Wiebe: Quantum Computer Simulations of Time Dependent Hamiltonians
    • Mike Thewalt: The remarkable optical properties of highly enriched 28Si – new tools and approaches for silicon-based quantum information research
    • Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students 2011
    • Mark Wilde: Entanglement boosts quantum turbo codes
    • Seth Lloyd: Sending a photon backwards in time
    • Falk Unger: Better gates can make fault-tolerant computation impossible
    • Sevag Gharibian: Approximation algorithms for QMA-complete problems
    • Kristan Temme and Maris Ozols
    • Eric Luvisotto and Scott Inwood: UW, Intellectual Property & You
    • David Jao: Constructing Elliptic Curve Isogenies in Quantum Subexponential Time
    • Self-Dual Model of Discrete Time Quantum Walk with Inhomogeneous Coin & The Smallest Heat Engine
    • Christophe Couteau: Physics of random lasing: demonstration in a 2D layer
    • Thomas Jennewein: Triple Photons and Triple Slits, a New Frontier in Quantum Mechanics Tests
    • Andrew Childs: Constructing elliptic curve isogenies in quantum subexponential time
    • QKD Summer School
    • Waterloo Density Matrix Group Renormalization Winter School
    • Nanostructured Single & Entangled Photon Sources for Quantum Information Processing
    • Gilles Brassard: Quantum Magic in Secret Communication
    • 12th Annual Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information
    • 9th Canadian Student Conference & 2nd AQuA Student Congress on Quantum Information
    • Women in Physics Canada
    • Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students 2010
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    • The Quantum Physics of Harry Potter
    • Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students 2012
    • Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms
    • USEQIP 2012
    • Virtual Seminar: Systems, environment and long-lived coherence
    • General Quantumness of Correlations Mini-Workshop
    • Q+ hangout: Jeff Lundeen
    • Q+ hangout: Jonathan Oppenheim
    • Grand Opening The Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum Nano Centre
    • The Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum Nano Centre Open House
    • Quantum Innovators
    • Screening of Codebreaker: A documentary about Alan Turing
    • Chip Elliott: Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecture Series: Can we speak – privately? Quantum cryptography in a broader context
    • Q+ hangout: Scott Aaronson
    • Q+ hangout: Caslav Brukner
    • QKD Summer School 2013
    • Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students 2013
    • USEQIP 2013
    • QCRYPT 2013
    • Canadian-American-Mexican (CAM) Graduate Student Physics Conference
    • Wei Cui: Randomly distilling W-class states into general configurations of two-party entanglement
    • Quantum Computation and Complex Networks
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    • Random Walks: Music of Xenakis and Beyond
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    • Students recognized for exceptional outreach
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    • Explore the quantum revolution during IQC's Open House
    • The boomerang of life reunites Hawking and Laflamme at IQC
    • Best Paper Award goes to IQC researcher and collaborators
    • David Cory joins IQC as Canada Excellence Research Chair
    • Undergraduate quantum workshop underway at IQC
    • Watch 'Hawking's Universe' Online
    • IQC Director to discuss mentor Stephen Hawking on TVO
    • Raymond Laflamme's TEDxWaterloo talk online
    • Researcher gets major U.S. grant to pursue multi-qubit systems
    • IQC student wins prestigious national scholarship
    • Breakthrough experiment featured in Nature
    • Dr. David Fransen appointed Executive Director of IQC.
    • IQC researchers have paper published in Nature.
    • Broadbent to speak at "Ladies Night Out"
    • Dr. Tom Brzustowski appointed as Senior Advisor at the Institute for Quantum Computing.
    • UW welcomes provincial government's investments in research and innovation
    • IQC Sponsors American Physical Society Experimental Research Paper Competition Award
    • Anthony J. Leggett Seminar Series
    • Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle
    • Spintronics Workshop
    • QuantumWorks Launch
    • IQC is a sponsor of the Quantum Cryptography and Computing Workshop
    • New Faculty Arrival
    • New National Network At IQC Will Ensure Canada's Quantum Capacity
    • Workshop on Quantum Algorithms for Simulating Physical Systems
    • Now Accepting Applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships
    • IQC accepting faculty applications
    • IQC Lecture Series: The Expert vs. The Crowd Networked Knowledge and the Evolution of Intellectual Authority, a presentation by Dr. Peter Nicholson
    • CFI Grant Approved!
    • Taming the Quantum World 2007
    • Nobel physicist joins UW faculty
    • UW and NRC sign quantum memo
    • Internal IQC-Qcrypto Workshop
    • First NII-Waterloo Workshop on the Design of Devices for Distributed Quantum Computation
    • St. Jerome's University Book Launch
    • Waterloo Unlimited visits IQC
    • CACR-IQC Workshop on Quantum Cryptography
    • The Seventh Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information
    • Theory and Realisation of Practical Quantum Key Distribution
    • Advances on Quantum Algorithms
    • Randomization of Quantum Systems
    • 2nd Annual Leggett Lecture Series
    • Congratulations to Chris Erven
    • Waterloo Winning Intelligent Community
    • Open House and Panel Discussion Registration
    • Quantum Leap
    • New Faculty Arrival
    • IQC Researcher Kevin Resch Receives CFI Award
    • IQC Researcher Hamed Majedi Receives Ontario Research Fund
    • Tunneling between a Tremble and a Swing
    • New Faculty Arrival
    • IQC Researchers One Step Closer to Prototype Quantum Computer
    • IQC accepting applications for Post Doctoral Fellows
    • Innovation Station
    • Frank Koppens wins the American Physical Society Prize sponsored by IQC
    • Coherent Spintronics Workshop
    • Jean Christian Boileau wins PI's John Brodie Memorial Award
    • Observation of Berry's Phase in a Solid-State Qubit
    • Co-op commission honours Lazaridis
    • IQC Sponsors APS Best Student Paper
    • Book Release: The Way Ahead Meeting Canada's Productivity Challenge, by Tom Brzustowski.
    • Quantum Information and Graph Theory: emerging connections
    • Fellowship Awarded to IQC Professor Andris Ambainis
    • IQC Professor Richard Cleve Awarded 2008 CAP/CRM Prize
    • New Location!
    • Raymond Laflamme Receives Premier's Discovery Award
    • Prof. Jonathan Baugh receives CFI Funding
    • $1.3M Award Winning Team
    • IQC Student Gives GSRC 08 Award Winning Talk
    • Nature Physics Article
    • IQC Host to August Summer School
    • Raymond Laflamme to give Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture
    • Director of Operations to join IQC
    • Sir Anthony Leggett Lecture Series
    • Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students
    • Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre Groundbreaking
    • Groundbreaking for the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre
    • Superconducting Quantum Bits: Nature Article
    • Open House
    • Welcome Ben Reichardt
    • Emerson Wins Early Researcher Award
    • FRSC honours IQC Director
    • IQC Faculty among new CIFAR inductees
    • Post-Doctoral fellowships at IQC
    • Three IQC Researchers Among Research and Innovation Funding Recipients
    • Visiting Researchers
    • Cover-worthy Interference
    • Federal Government Invests in IQC Research
    • Awarding "Associate" Status to IQC Members
    • Upcoming Conferences
    • Measurement at the Quantum Limit
    • Two more Faculty Members join the IQC lineup
    • Announcing IQC's New COO
    • The Waterloo Bell - Bell for Kepler
    • Awarding Canada's Top Science Prize
    • Keeping a Quantum State Alive in an Optimal Way
    • Government of Canada Makes Strategic Investment in IQC
    • NSERC Discovery Grants Announced
    • Taking a Spin Around the Block
    • Prestigious Award Goes to Ph.D. Student
    • TQC 2009 Underway
    • Sir Anthony Leggett Lecture Series 2009
    • Canada Excellence Research Chair
    • Spotlight on Quantum Cryptography
    • Save the Date: Grand Opening of Quantum-Nano Centre
    • New CIFAR Inductee
    • Taking Another Leap For Quantum Computing
    • What Great Philanthropy Can Do
    • Fields Institute workshop begins next week
    • QIP = PSPACE
    • IQC faculty member wins Early Researcher Award
    • IQC welcomes new minds for fall term
    • Dr. Gregory Chaitin at IQC
    • IQC faculty member shares in U.S. government grant
    • Public Event: Open House and Panel Discussion
    • Quantum Tamers captures prize in Paris
    • Conduct your research at IQC
    • IQC featured in Nature
    • Grad Program Gets University of Waterloo Approval
    • IQC Researchers Solve Difficult Classical Problem with One Quantum Bit
    • Quantum Grad Program Set for Fall 2010
    • IQC Director to speak at inaugural TEDxWaterloo event
    • IQC Faculty Receive Grant for Collaborative Cryptography Research
    • The Quantum Tamers returns to TV
    • Researchers probe time travel as computing tool
    • Joseph Emerson Public Lecture
    • Michele Mosca named among Top 40 Under 40
    • IQC Director wows crowd at inaugural TEDxWaterloo
    • IQC researchers investigate boson problems
    • International deal signed for quantum collaboration
    • IQC director featured in Motivated Magazine
    • Nature article examines quantum computing possibilities
    • The Quantum Tamers to be screened in Ottawa
    • IQC researcher welcomes readers to quantum country
    • IQC deputy director appointed a CIFAR Fellow
    • $139K grant awarded to IQC researcher
    • Still time to sign up for QCSYS 2010
    • IQC postdoc and international collaborators probe quantum correlations
    • Can quantum mechanics get you out of a speeding ticket?
    • QISS workshop kicks off next week
    • Recipients of Early Researcher Awards (ERA)
    • Le gouvernement du Canada fait un investissement stratégique dans l'Institut d'informatique quantique
    • Canadian government unveils prestigious postdoctoral fellowships
    • Research team tests fundamental rule in Science paper
    • IQC-led research team achieves quantum optics breakthrough
    • Research team achieves milestone in superconducting qubits
    • Watch 'Born to Rule' - A Fundamental Experiment Explained
    • Finance Minister Flaherty visits IQC
    • IQC welcomes new Research Assistant Professors
    • Big crowds explore quantum science at IQC Open House
    • IQC bids good luck to Governor General-designate
    • IQC welcomes Jay Gambetta as Research Assistant Professor
    • IQC researcher welcomes readers to quantum country
    • UW Physics alumni explore quantum future
    • Postdoctoral positions available at IQC
    • New IQC research assistant professor co-authors key papers
    • IQC optics team advances measurement-based quantum computing
    • IQC postdoc brings quantum computing to Ladies' Night Out
    • IQC accepting faculty applications
    • IQC postdoc earns prestigious Polanyi Prize
    • Hamed Majedi receives Distinguished Performance Award
    • Seth Lloyd, quantum mechanic, talks shop at IQC
    • Researchers achieve "important building block" in quantum error correction
    • IQC faculty member named Royal Society Fellow
    • Researcher earns prestigious Sloan Fellowship
    • Joseph Emerson named among 40 Under 40
    • Quantum entanglement as a game-changer
    • IQC deputy director wins national award
    • Watch IQC's Quantum Frontiers lecture online
    • International young scholars begin quantum summer school
    • Reporter earns science journalism award for IQC profile
    • IQC scholar earns university's Dean of Science Award
    • Observing the Unobservable: IQC researcher and colleagues achieve a physics first
    • Distinguished Lecture series continues with nanotech expert
    • International journalists in Qatar get a quantum "peek"
    • Young students join the quantum "cirque"
    • IQC congratulates student scholarship winners
    • IQC optics team tests new uncertainty principle
    • IQC faculty members earn provincial research awards
    • IQC outreach manager co-authors Science paper
    • IQC student earns national fellowship
    • IQC postdoc earns prestigious fellowship
    • IQC welcomes new students
    • Researchers achieve "simple yet elegant" result with quantum dots
    • IQC's experimental "tango" draws attention
    • Building for the Future: The Quantum-Nano Centre
    • IQC congratulates student scholarship recipients
    • Recent IQC research showcased on PhysOrg
    • IQC Executive Director named an APS Fellow
    • IQC hosts major science funding announcement
    • Quantum behaviour "in the eye of the beholder"
    • Walrus article examines Quantum Valley
    • Online quantum community in the works
    • IQC postdoc part of Breakthrough of the Year
    • IQC and NIST collaboration yields advance in sensors
    • Wineland to deliver Quantum Frontiers lecture Thursday
    • International team achieves breakthrough in secure quantum computing
    • IQC congratulates student scholarship recipients
    • IQC part of world's largest science conference this week
    • IQC prof explores quantum devices at Vancouver science summit
    • Laflamme explores quantum revolution in public lecture
    • Lazaridis speaks on the power of ideas
    • IQC Executive Director named AAAS Fellow
    • International panel explores quantum communications
    • Summer school applications open
    • New IQC researcher tests quantum security
    • IQC to bring quantum world to TEDxWaterloo
    • IQC to host aspiring young female scientists
    • New chip advances quantum optics research
    • Federal grant boosts quantum program for teens
    • Turing documentary to be screened at IQC June 21
    • Ranking websites with a quantum speed-up
    • Watch IQC's dancing quantum physicist at TEDxWaterloo
    • IQC scientists receive grants to train next generation of researchers
    • IQC student earns prestigious federal scholarship
    • Second Women in Physics conference under way in BC
    • New quantum algorithm is a perfect "fit"
    • Quantum connections span space — and time
    • IQC welcomes newest faculty member
    • Quantum teleportation goes the distance
    • Quantum-Nano Centre opens at the University of Waterloo
    • New IQC faculty member aims to "bridge" classical and quantum
    • Thousands take part Quantum-Nano Centre's grand opening
    • New paper chronicles quantum discord research
    • Extending Einstein
    • CryptoWorks21
    • CryptoWorks21 Applications Now Open
    • IQC researchers demonstrate an ultra-sensitive magnetic field sensor
    • IQC scientist awarded CFI grant
    • IQC Researchers Present Quantum Device Research at AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston
    • IQC researchers propose quantum walk-based computing model
    • IQC professor receives E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship
    • Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne visits the Institute for Quantum Computing
    • Exploring Quantum Valley
    • Music and Science join forces in ‘Random Walks: Xenakis and Beyond’
    • Investing in quantum
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    • October 15, 2012: Mark Howard
    • September 24, 2012: Daniel Nagaj
    • September 10, 2012: Christopher Fuchs
    • August 27th, 2012: Klaus Ensslin
    • June 4, 2012: Lin Tian
    • May 14, 2012: Jop Briët
    • April 9, 2012: Aram Harrow
    • April 2, 2012: Hanhee Paik
    • March 26, 2012: Rajat Mittal
    • December 19, 2011: Matthais Christandl
    • December 5, 2011: Naresh Sharma
    • October 31, 2011: Fernando Brandao
    • October 10, 2011: Lev Bishop
    • October 3, 2011: Jonathan Leach
    • September 26, 2011: Will Matthews
    • September 19, 2011: Carlton Caves
    • September 12, 2011: Vadim Lyubashevsky
    • May 16, 2011: Mauro Paternostro
    • Apr 15, 2011: Sophie Schirmer
    • April 4, 2011: Christopher Moore
    • March 21, 2011: Frédéric Dupuis
    • March 14, 2011: Andrew Cleland
    • March 7, 2011: Giulio Chiribella
    • February 28, 2011: Dr. Eric Chitambar
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