10 years of Quantiki!

Submitted by gawron on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 15:39.

Today the Quantiki team (from left to right: Jarek Miszczak, Daniel Burgarth, Piotr Gawron) celebrates the 10th birthday of the site. Meeting at Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, we discussed our achievements and exciting upcoming new features. We also ate an immense amount of tasty strawberries.
Congratulate us and share your views below or by email (quantiki.team@gmail.com)!

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Fifth Quantum Thermodynamics Conference

Dates: 
Monday, March 13, 2017
Submission deadline: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Registration deadline: 
Sunday, January 29, 2017

The Fifth Quantum Thermodynamics Conference takes place in Oxford from 13-17 March 2017 (suggested arrival on 12 March). The conference itself will be held at the Oxford Martin School with accommodation provided by St Edmund Hall.

The conference covers theory and experiments related to thermodynamics of quantum systems, information thermodynamics, thermalisation and equilibration, foundations of thermodynamics, and quantum heat engines.

Submitted by felix_binder on Sun, 09/25/2016 - 12:37.

PhD positions in Quantum Computing (specifically, quantum algorithms, walks, games) in Galway

For full details of the application procedure, please see
http://www.research.ie/scheme/government-ireland-postgraduate-scholarship-scheme-2017.
Before applying, please make contact with Dr. M. Mc Gettrick at michael.mcgettrick@nuigalway.ie,
http://www.maths.nuigalway.ie/~gettrick/, to
discuss research topics.

Application deadline: 
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Submitted by Gettrick on Wed, 09/21/2016 - 14:04.

Postdoctoral Fellow in quantum information, control and measurement theory

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to work with the PDs and SCPs on CQuIC’s core research interests, to develop new research directions for CQuIC’s research portfolio, to pursue independent lines of research, and to participate in managing center-wide activities. A successful applicant will become a CQuIC Postdoctoral Fellow, with a contract for one year and the expectation that the appointment will be renewed for two additional years upon satisfactory performance.

Application deadline: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Submitted by CQuIC on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 22:33.

Quantum Walking in a Discrete Geometry

Supervisors: Pablo Arrighi (Professor), Giuseppe Di Molfetta (Associate Professor).

Contact details: pablo.arrighi@univ-amu.fr or giuseppe.dimolfetta@lif.univ-mrs.fr

Place: Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale (LIF), Natural Computing team (CaNa).

Submitted by Gdimolfetta on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 12:50.

Joint PhD program in Quantum Information Theory with full scholarship.

SUSTech's Quantum Information Group

The group offers Full Scholarship PhD position for joint program opportunities with NUS, HKU, HKUST, University of Warwick, University of LEEDS, University of Birmingham. A student will be conferred a single PhD degree by the corresponding collaboration university.

The group focuses on the following topics:

Quantum Simulation and Computation
Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Information Theory
Quantum Communication
Computational Complexity of Physics and Chemistry

Application deadline: 
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Submitted by Fei Meng on Sun, 09/11/2016 - 09:54.

Postdoctoral and PhD positions in the group of Quantum Information Theory at Hanyang University in South Korea

[Postdoctoral and PhD positions]

A postdoctoral position and PhD positions are available in the group of Quantum Information Theory at Hanyang University(ERICA) in Korea. The successful candidates will work as part of the research group including Joonwoo Bae and Cedric Beny in topics of fundamental aspects of quantum information theory and their applications.

For a postdoc, the appointment is initially for 1 year with the possibility of extensions. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered.

Application deadline: 
Monday, October 31, 2016
Submitted by Pepipo on Sun, 09/11/2016 - 04:08.

QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS, http://quics.umd.edu) is seeking exceptional candidates for the QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellowships in Quantum Information and Computer Science.

Application deadline: 
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Submitted by Amchilds on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 15:37.

Postdoc in quantum information and foundations (Research Associate/Fellow) at Nottingham

Applications are invited for the above post to work with Professor Gerardo Adesso and Dr Tommaso Tufarelli at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with Dr Marco Piani at the University of Strathclyde, on a project funded by the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) entitled “Sentient observers in the quantum regime and the emergence of an objective reality” [http://fqxi.org/grants/large/awardees/view/__details/2016/adesso].

Application deadline: 
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Submitted by Torades on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 13:35.