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Welcoming new QUASAR members!

Wishing a warm welcome to our new QUASAR members: Archishna Bhattacharyya, PhD Student Linh Dinh, PhD Student Kieran Mastel, Postdoctoral Fellow Blake Stanley, MSc. Student Thomas Admiral, MSc. Student Timothy Rylander, MSc. Student Jack Wile, MSc…

November 12, 2025

A special QUASAR seminar to highlight undergraduate summer projects

The second annual special QUASAR seminar to highlight undergraduate summer projects was held on August 21, 2025, at the University of Ottawa. Congratulations to all speakers! Brian An (uOttawa): Creating a Sum-of-Squares Solver for Non-Commutative…

September 01, 2025

Upcoming End of Year Seminar

Registrations are now open for QUASAR’s end of year seminar. Fill out the form here in order to attend. Talks will take place on Friday, December 13th, 2024, 10am-5pm, in the uOttawa STEM Complex, room STM201. Lunch will be provided at the uOttawa…

November 22, 2024

Anne Broadbent Receives Tier 1 Canada Research Chair

Congratulations to QUASAR’s Professor Anne Broadbent for receiving the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications and Cryptography! Read more: English Français

November 15, 2024

Alumnus Featured in Faculty News Article

Congratulations to Maria Perepechaenko, QUASAR alumnus, who was recently featured in a uOttawa Faculty of Science news article depicting her journey towards protecting our digital future. Read more: English Français

November 14, 2024

A special QUASAR seminar to highlight undergraduate summer projects

Congratulations to the speakers at the QUASAR undergraduate seminar that was held at the University of Ottawa on August 19th, 2024: Daniel Poul Lovsted - Extending Quantum Indistinguishability Obfuscation: Limits and Progress Entong He - Generalized…

August 19, 2024

QUASAR Members at CodeFest Quantique

Some of our QUASAR members attended the CodeFest Quantique, a hackathon organized jointly by ETS and Sherbrooke University. Our students had a fun day hacking away at different Qiskit challenges based on quantum entanglement, CHSH games, Grover’s…

May 16, 2024

Welcoming new lab members

We would like to welcome our new lab members! Laura Maddison, MSc Student Jyoti Faujdar, Postdoctoral Fellow Xinyi Huang, PhD Student Connor Paddock, Postdoctoral Fellow Yasin Elmi, Undergraduate Research Student Denis Rochette, Postdoctoral Fellow…

September 28, 2023

uOttawa to push boundaries of quantum research with NSERC grants

uOttawa secured funding in the amount of approximately $15 million through NSERC’s Alliance Quantum Consortia grants. Among the grants received was one proposed by our Professor Anne Broadbent, titled “QUébec Ontario consoRtium on quantUM protocols…

April 19, 2023

Eric Culf awarded Xanadu Graduate Prize

Congratulations to Eric Culf for winning the Xanadu Graduate Prize in Quantum Photonics and Information! Xanadu, a quantum computing company, instituted the prize in order to recognize a graduate student who has submitted an outstanding paper on the…

April 02, 2023

Ericsson establishes Quantum Research hub with uOttawa

Ericsson Canada recently announced with uOttawa that it established a new Quantum research hub in Montreal. This is part of a partnership that includes the University of Sherbrooke. Read the full article here.

March 21, 2023

Christine Schuknecht awarded Xanadu Graduate Prize

Congratulations to Christine Schuknecht for winning the Xanadu Graduate Prize in Quantum Photonics and Information! Xanadu, a quantum computing company, instituted the prize in order to recognize a graduate student who has submitted an outstanding…

September 23, 2022

Nolive Gnan and Raza Ali Kazmi Featured in Annual Research Report

Congratulations to Nolive Gnan and Raza Ali Kazmi, two of our alumni, for being featured in uOttawa Faculty of Science’s Annual Research Report! Nolive was featured for her work with Monica Nevins on post-quantum cryptography. You can find her…

June 22, 2022

Christine Schuknecht Wins Outstanding Student Paper Prize

The Departmental Teaching Personnel Committee (DTPC) of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Ottawa has awarded to our MSc alumna, Christine Schuknecht for the paper she co-wrote with Anne Broadbent and Carlos E. González…

May 20, 2022

Martti Karvonen gave a talk at FoSSaCS

Martti Karvonen presented the paper “Categorical composable cryptography”, co-authored with Anne Broadbent, at the 25th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FoSSaCS). Full details of the event can be…

April 11, 2022

QUASAR at QIP 2022

Two QUASAR members are presenting their work at QIP 2022! Eric Culf will be giving a talk on “Rigidity for Monogamy-of-Entanglement Games”, a paper he co-authored with Anne Broadbent. Peter Yuen will be presenting a poster on “Device-Independent…

March 02, 2022

Christine Schuknecht publishes first paper

Congratulations to Christine Schuknecht for publishing her first paper! Christine co-authored ”Quantum private broadcasting” with Anne Broadbent of QUASAR and Carlos E. González-Guillén from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. This work forms the…

February 11, 2022

Sherry Wang to Give Talk at IEEE Quantum Week

Sherry Wang, one of QUASAR’s undergraduate students, is giving a talk today (15:15 MDT, i.e. 17:15 EDT) at IEEE Quantum Week. The talk is titled “Password Authentication Schemes on a Quantum Computer” and is based on Sherry’s joint work with Carlisle…

October 21, 2021

Christine Schuknecht successfully defends thesis

Congratulations to Christine Schuknecht for successfully defending her thesis! Christine’s thesis, titled Quantum Private Broadcasting, presents and expands upon original contributions to quantum cryptography she made with Anne Broadbent and Carlos E…

September 30, 2021

Rabib Islam awarded Xanadu Graduate Prize

Congratulations to Rabib Islam for winning the Xanadu Graduate Prize in Quantum Photonics and Information! Rabib was awarded alongside Felix Hufnagel, a graduate student in the Structural Quantum Optics group at the University of Ottawa. Xanadu, a…

July 06, 2021

Allan Merino joins QUASAR

We would like to welcome Allan Merino to QUASAR. He will be joining as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Allan completed his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Lorraine (France) and he spent three years at the National University of Singapore as a Research…

July 05, 2021

Arthur Mehta joins QUASAR

We would like to welcome Arthur Mehta to QUASAR. He will be joining as a Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow. Arthur completed his M.Math in pure mathematics at the University of Waterloo, and PhD in mathematics at the University of Toronto prior to his…

April 21, 2021

Eric Culf awarded NSERC CGS-M

Congratulations to Eric Culf for being awarded under the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s program! Eric intends to study how the notion of rigidity may be applied to extended nonlocal games. He will focus on two research questions: How…

April 16, 2021

QUASAR members honoured in University of Ottawa Annual Research Report

Congratulations to our colleagues who were mentioned in the 2019-2020 University of Ottawa Faculty of Science Annual Research Report! Professor Monica Nevins recognized with Canadian Mathematical Society Fellowship Professor Nevins was named Fellow…

March 15, 2021