News Archive

2024

• Oct 24: Welcome Mahmut Levent Doğan, who just joined as a postdoctoral researcher to work on our ERC project on “Symmetry and Optimization at the Frontiers of Computation”.

• Sep 24: Our faculty has an opening for a Professorship in Quantum Computing. Please see the job ad for more information and consider applying!

• Sep 24: We are very pleased that the BMBF project “Quantum Optimization Solver Kit” (QuSol) was approved.

• May 24: We have two papers accepted at CRYPTO’24, one at TQC’24 and one at CCC’24.

• May 24: PhD lectures on Quantum Information at Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics (DRSTP) 2024. See here for material.

• Apr 24: Welcome to Alex Kulpe, who just joined our group as a CASA PhD student on the Fundamental Research Project “Robust Certification of Quantum Devices”.

• Feb 24: We organized a Minisymposium on Quantum Optimization and Geometry at CWI, Amsterdam.

• Jan 24: Congratulations, Dr. Harold Nieuwboer, for obtaining your PhD. We wish you all the best for your postdoc at Copenhagen!

• Jan 24: We have three papers accepted at QIP’24.

2023

• Dec 23: A total of 289 students from over 100 high schools worldwide participated in our web class Quantum Quest. More than 40 students from Germany successfully completed the course, earning a certificate and some of them even a special prize. Congratulations to all participants!

• Nov 23: We organized a one-day workshop, with a fantastic set of speakers, covering recent directions in quantum information, algorithms, complexity, and cryptography.

• Nov 23: Welcome Maxim van den Berg, who just started his PhD to work on our ERC project on “Symmetry and Optimization at the Frontiers of Computation”.

• Oct 23: Welcome Massimo Ostuzzi, who just started his PhD as part of the Marie Curie Doctoral Network “Quantum-Safe Internet”.

• Oct 23: This year, we are running another edition of our web class The Quantum Quest – in collaboration with QuSoft, the University of Amsterdam, and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. We invite all students interested in quantum computing to participate!

• Jun 23: Welcome Simon Schmidt, who just joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher!

• Apr 23: Welcome to three new group members! Amalia Böttger will be working on a Master’s project on quantum algorithms. Luca Witt will be working on a Bachelor’s project and join the QuBRA project. Vladimir Lysikov just joined as a postdoctoral researcher to work on our ERC project on “Symmetry and Optimization at the Frontiers of Computation”.

• Feb 23: Welcome Tianwei Zhang, who just joined our group as a CASA PhD student to work on the CASA Fundamental Research Project “Cryptography in Light of Quantum Information”.

• Feb 23: Welcome to our team, Janine Hein!

• Jan 23: Congratulations Freek Witteveen for being awarded the Stieltjesprijs for the best PhD thesis in Mathematics in the Netherlands. Freek obtained his PhD in our group with a thesis on “Quantum information theory and many-body physics”.

• Jan 23: Welcome Samuel Crew, who just joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher!

2022

• Aug 22: Welcome Anurudh Peduri, who just joined our group as a PhD student as part of the QuBRA team!

• Aug 22: Together with Andris Ambainis and David Gross, we organized a Bad Honnef School on “Quantum Computing” (August 14-19, 2022) with a fantastic lineup of speakers. See here for more information and material.

• Jun 22: Together with Giulio Malavolta, we started organizing the Theory Colloquium. The talks in this series highlight exciting areas of current theoretical computer science research. All interested parties are cordially invited!

• May 22: Very pleased about the start of our ERC Starting Grant on “Symmetry and Optimization at the Frontiers of Computation”. We’re still hiring!

• Jan 22: Our BMBF project QuBRA is starting. We’re hiring!

2021

• Dec 21: Lectures on Quantum Information at the 2021 Amsterdam-Brussels-Geneva-Paris Doctoral School. See here for slides.

• Nov 21: Together with Nisheeth Vishnoi and Ashia Wilson, we organized a workshop on “Optimization under Symmetry” at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley.

• Nov 21: We ran another edition of our web class The Quantum Quest for high-school students to learn about quantum computing – this year for the first time in collaboration with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

• Sep 21: Former postdoc Jonas Helsen is starting as a tenure-track researcher at CWI. Congratulations, well deserved!

• Jun 21: Lectures on “Tensor Networks, Quantum Information and Holography” at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI). Video recordings: 1, 2, 3, 4

• May 21: We organized a workshop on “Efficient Tensor Representations for Learning and Computational Complexity” at IPAM.

• Jan 21: Together with Jay Armas, we organized a focus session on “Information at all length scales: from black holes to quantum information and living systems” at Physics@Veldhoven.

2020

• Nov 20: Very honored to receive an Early Career Award by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

• Jun 20: We organized a Lorentz Center workshop on “Complexity from Quantum Information to Black Holes” in Leiden online!

• Jan 20: Lecture series on Quantum Information at the 14th Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology at Tohoku University.

2019

• Nov 19: New preprint posted with colleagues from Google, Stanford, Caltech. We propose holographic teleportation protocols that are feasible for near-term quantum computing platforms. See here for reporting.

• Jul 19: Together with Peter Bürgisser, we organized a mini-symposium on “Efficient algorithms for geometric invariant theory” at SIAM-AG 2019.

2018

• Oct 18: Together with Ankit Garg, Rafael Oliveira, and Avi Wigderson, we organized a FOCS workshop on “Scaling algorithms and applications”.