[:en]Items of general "quantum" interest.[:]
Jul 29
[:en] From 6-11 July 2025, Tristen Gwynn (Quantum@SUN PhD student) and I (Dhiya Dharampal, Quantum@SUN Masters student) attended the 15th International High Performance Computing (HPC) Summer School in Lisbon, Portugal, where we enjoyed an incredible week filled with parallel programming, Pastéis de Nata and wonderful company from all over the world. …
Jul 19
Introducing the Next Generation of Quantum Scientists: This July, Stellenbosch University proudly hosted the NITheCS Winter Internship Programme 2025, welcoming talented Honours students from across South Africa to participate in a unique and intensive project titled “Introduction to Quantum Computing.” Under the guidance of Prof Francesco Petruccione and mentorship by Abbas (Omid) Hassasfar (main mentor), …
Feb 10
[:en]We are thrilled to welcome Ms. Dhiya Dharampal as our new Master’s student at Quantum@SUN, starting in February 2025. Dhiya holds a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Astronomy and Physics, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), where she graduated in 2023. In 2024, she completed her Honour’s degree in Physics at UKZN, where she did a …
Sep 07
We are pleased to announce a milestone achievement for both Stellenbosch University and the broader South African scientific community. The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) have accepted Stellenbosch University’s bid to host the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS). The Consortium and Leadership Led by Stellenbosch …
Feb 13
[:en] Last week, Gerhard Woithe, who just joined the Group as an MSc student, started a project to translate the Wikipedia page for “Quantum computing” to Afrikaans. The page (still in progress) can be found at https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwantumberekening. In the process of doing so, we have, however, found that in many cases, there are no existing …
May 29
[:en]Prof Francesco Petruccione joined Stellenbosch University on 1 May 2022.[:]
May 05
[:en]Welcome to quantum.sun.ac.za. The page will display all things “quantum” at Stellenbosch University.[:de]Welcome to Blogs.sun.ac.za. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging![:]