QUASAR

Seminars

The QUASAR Seminar Series brings together visitors and group members to share new results in quantum information, cryptography, and related areas. Talks are announced by email and we keep a curated archive of recent seminars.

Seminar Details
WhenMost Fridays, 1:00–2:30 pm (ET)
WhereSTEM Complex
Hosted byQUASAR Lab, University of Ottawa
OrganizerSeminar committee, 2025–2026

Archive

Selected seminars from recent terms are highlighted below with past seminar announcements only (no recordings). We aim to refresh the list every few months rather than weekly.

Special event

End of Year Seminar 2025

Tue, Dec 9, 2025, 10:25 AM-2:30 PM (ET) · STEM Complex
Pauli-Based Computation in Plain and Secure Settings
Daniel Lovsted
The quantum smooth label cover problem is undecidable
Kieran Mastel
Nonlocal Games and Compact Quantum Groups
Bennett Hon
Noise-Robustness for Delegated Quantum Computation in the Circuit Model
Joshua Nevin
In person

Weekly Seminar

Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 10:30-11:30 AM (ET) · STEM Complex
Public-Key Quantum Fire and Key-Fire From Classical Oracles
Alper Cakan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Virtual

Weekly Seminar

Fri, Nov 7, 2025, 1:00 PM (ET) · Virtual
Improved Renyi entropy accumulation theorems with application to Prepare-and-Measure quantum key distribution protocols
Amir Arqand (University of Waterloo)
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