[:en]We are very pleased to announce that Dr Yaseera Ismail has joined Quantum@SUN as of 1 Jan 2024, after being appointed Senior Lecturer at Stellenbosch University. Dr Ismail specialises in the development of quantum technologies, particularly in the field of quantum information science. She is an experimentalist developing quantum optical tools for the advancement of …
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Dec 17
Quantum@SUN Unconference 2023
Our research group recently held an unconference, which was a great success. We spent a whole day together, and every group member presented some interesting research questions. It was amazing to see the group’s diversity of topics and perspectives and how we all came together to share our ideas. The unconference format was new to …
Jul 22
[:en]Dr. Matthias Troyer (Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Quantum) Visited Quantum Research Group of Stellenbosch University[:]
[:en]On Monday, July 17, 2023, the Quantum Stellenbosch group had the privilege of hosting Dr. Matthias Troyer, a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Quantum. Dr. Troyer delivered an insightful presentation focusing on “Practical Quantum Advantage” and shared the latest progress in quantum computing by Microsoft. Dr. Matthias Troyer is a quantum scientist at Microsoft Research. He …
Jun 09
Italian honour for Prof Petruccione
[:en] Prof. Francesco Petruccione was recently awarded the title of Cavaliere della Stella d’Italia, a prestigious Italian honour.. The accolade, presented by the Italian ambassador on Italy’s Republic Day, recognizes Petruccione’s significant global contributions to theoretical physics. For the full press release, please follow this link. [:]
Jun 02
Participation of one of our group members in the NYUAD International Hackathon Quantum Computing (AbuDhabi)
[:en]One of the Ph.D. students of the Quantum Research Group of Stellenbosch University, Abbas (Omid) Hassasfar, recently attended the Eleventh Annual NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good focusing on Quantum Computing held at the New York University Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate. The quantum hackathon took place on April 27th – April 30th, …
May 19
[:en]Students participate in Quantinuum Quantum Hackathon at ICTP Trieste, Italy[:]
[:en]The Stellenbosch University students, Dean Brand, Abbas (Omid) Hassasfar, Matt Lourens, Amy Rouillard, Donovan Slabbert, and Gerhard Woithe, recently attended the ICTP – Quantinuum Quantum Hackathon held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. This event brought together 90 students from 23 different countries, with the aim of collaborating and creating …
Feb 06
[:en]Four new preprints[:]
[:en]What a day: 4 preprints in the arXiv! Congratulations to Shivani Pillay, Ian David, Rowan Pellow-Jarman and Shane McFarthing for submitting their first preprints to the arXiv: Hybrid Genetic Optimisation for Quantum Feature Map Design R Pellow-Jarman, A Pillay, I Sinayskiy, F Petruccione Digital Simulation of Single Qubit Markovian Open Quantum Systems: A Tutorial , …
Feb 01
[:en]Quantum @SUN welcomes Prof Uwe Jaekel[:]
[:en]Prof Uwe Jaekel (Hochshule Koblenz, University of Applied Sciences) is visiting Stellenbosch University from 31 January to 5 February 2023. Prof Jaekel is one of the speakers at the 2023 CHPC-NITheCS Summer School on Theoretical and Computational Sciences. On Friday, 3 February, he will deliver a Colloquium on the topic ‘Solving nonlinear classification problems with a …
Dec 05
[:en]Quantum Unconference[:]
[:en] It was great to have some of my UKZN students visiting in Stellenbosch and join the local team.[:]
Oct 10
[:en]Quantum tunnelling in the context of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection[:]
[:en]The latest paper with Betony Adams, Ilya Sinayskiy and Rienk van Grondelle was published in Scientific Reports. Abstract: The SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic has added new urgency to the study of viral mechanisms of infection. But while vaccines offer a measure of protection against this specific outbreak, a new era of pandemics has been predicted. In addition …