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RE-completeness of entangled constraint satisfaction problems

QUASAR weekly seminar talk. Date: Friday, September 19, 2025 Time: 1:00-2:00 PM ET Location: STEM Complex Speaker: Kieran Mastel Affiliation: University of Ottawa Abstract Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are a natural class of decision…

September 19, 2025

A Semi-Device-Independent Framework for Certifying Non-Stabilizerness

QUASAR weekly seminar talk. Date: Friday, September 12, 2025 Time: 1:00 PM ET Location: Virtual Speaker: Santiago Zamora Affiliation: International Institute of Physics Abstract Non-stabilizer states, often called “magic” states, are an essential…

September 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

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