Centre for Quantum Technologies

CQT PhD student Frits Verhagen successfully defended his thesis "Classical And Quantum Information Measures Characterizing Convertibility: An Axiomatic Approach". 👏 Congratulations! 🥂 Principal Investigator Marco Tomamichel was his main thesis advisor and Senior Research Fellow Erkka Haapasalo his co-advisor.

Frits will be starting a postdoc at NTU to continue research into entropic quantities and resource theories. All the best, Dr Frits! 🎓️

Now online:
▶️ "Hardware-Aware Photonic Architectures For Trusted And Scalable Quantum Learning", colloquium by Elham Kashefi, NQCC, CNRS & University of Edinburgh
https://bit.ly/3TXG7OV

Hardware-Aware Photonic Architectures For Trusted And Scalable Quantum Learning CQT Colloquium Speaker: Elham Kashefi, NQCC, CNRS & University of...

🍾 Pop the champagne! PhD student Qiu Yixian successfully defended her thesis "Exponential Tilting in Quantum Computing: Foundations and Applications"! 💐Congratulations! 👏

Her PhD research focuses on learning guarantees for tunable objective functions in quantum frameworks, as well as reshaping optimization landscapes in variational quantum algorithms through tunable objectives and their practical implementation. Yixian was supervised by Patrick Rebentrost.

When he first arrived at CQT, Peng Kian Tan was an undergraduate with an enthusiasm for astronomy. He had an idea to use quantum techniques to observe the stars✨️ Now a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre, his commendable performance has been recognised with a Singapore National Award 🎖️

Congratulations PK!

Read more about his research and his Commendation Medal here https://bit.ly/4qlhwjc

CQT’s Tan Peng Kian receives Singapore National Award - CQT - Centre for Quantum Technologies Congratulations to our Senior Research Fellow, expert in quantum optics, on receiving the Commendation Medal (Pingat Kepujian)

This Thursday, we are pleased to have Vivishek Sudhir from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology give a colloquium on "Macroscopic quantum measurements to probe gravity". Find the abstract here: https://www.cqt.sg/colloquia/

When the sun goes down, some CQT researchers head up to a rooftop in the National University of Singapore to operate this telescope. Their work involves establishing a link with a quantum communication satellite. Read the latest from our collaborators at Singapore-based SpeQtral, which launched the satellite SpeQtre with mission partners last November: https://bit.ly/3RYWIkH

TODAY: We welcome Elham Kashefi from NQCC, CNRS & University of Edinburgh to give a colloquium on "Hardware-Aware Photonic Architectures For Trusted And Scalable Quantum Learning". Find the abstract here: https://www.cqt.sg/colloquia/

From our lunchtime seminar series:
▶️ Adrian Copetudo Espinosa on "Engineering a bosonic CZ gate between two superconducting cavities": https://bit.ly/4pUTwTy

Engineering a bosonic CZ gate between two superconducting cavities Quantum Lunch Seminar SeriesSpeaker: Adrian Copetudo EspinosaAbs...

From our lunchtime seminar series:
▶️ Son Jeongrak on " Two recipes for implementing non-linear evolutions in quantum computers":

Two recipes for implementing non-linear evolutions in quantum computers Quantum Lunch Seminar SeriesSpeaker: Son JeongrakAbstract: In th...

We were back at the Science Centre Singapore on 25 July to play with bubbles 🫧 CQT's Jenny Hogan and PhD students Xu Zifang, Raghav Sah, Chen Zhili and Shawn Liew brought our bubble computers to show how analogue computing and quantum simulations can help solve problems more efficiently. 🫧🖥️