Good News: First Quarter, 2024
Please join me in congratulating: Nihar Makadia, Rhys MacKintosh, Aislin Wells, Justin Jacobs and Lasse Sweetland for winning Next Generation Graduate Scholarships funded by the CSIRO and SQA (Sydney Quantum Academy). Dr John Bartholomew for his appointment to Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS). Dr Tingrei Tan who won …
Sydney Uni hosts the sixth international conference on Quantum Error Correction
Thhe sixth International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (QEC23), organized by the Quantum Theory Group at the University of Sydney, took place from October 30 to November 3 at Doltone House, Sydney. Last held in in 2019, the highly anticipated conference brought together over 200 scholars and experts in academia and industry from across the …
Good news: October/November round-up
As we round out the year, please join me in celebrating all the hard work, triumphs and successes of the Quantum Science Group over the October-November period. Congratulations to:- Dr Ting Rei Tan (QCL), who was awarded a Sydney Horizon Fellowship: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/02/28/sydney-attracts-top-research-talent-with-innovative-fellowships.html Dr Sahand Mahmoodian (QTG) and collaborators, who took home the Minor Prize in the …
Sydney Uni launches the Topological Order on the Pacific Ocean Workshop
At the beginning of November, Dr. Dominic Williamson hosted the Topological Order on the Pacific Ocean (TOPO) 2023 workshop. Dominic is a DECRA fellow in the Quantum Theory Group at the University of Sydney. TOPO 2023 is a new workshop that focuses on theoretical developments at the interface between topological phases of matter and quantum …
Quantum Science Group members among the recipients of Kickstarter funding
Please join me in congratulating Dr Christophe Valahu, Dr Tingrei Tan, Dr Tomas Navickas, Dr Robert Wolf, Dr Xanthe Croot, Dr John Bartholomew, Dr Elizabeth Marcellina and Tim Newman, who were awarded funding from the Kickstarter Program by the Sydney Nano Institute. Kickstarter projects are selected for their multidisplinary nature and for their potential to address a Grand Challenge of humanity and our environment. …
Ting Rei Tan wins funding from Wellcome Leap to drive multi-disciplinary research
Congratulations to Dr Ting Rei Tan, who was awarded a contract by US-based non-profit organisation Wellcome Leap as part of it’s Quantum 4 Bio (Q4Bio) challenge. Dr Tan and his team, which also include Prof. Ivan Kassal from the School of Chemistry and Prof. Pablo Fernandez-Penas from the Westmead School of Medicine as Co-PIs, were …
Dr Xanthe Croot wins a DECRA
Congratulations to Dr Xanthe Croot, who has won $449,744 in funding under the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme. The DECRA scheme provides focused research support for early-career researchers in both teaching and research, and research-only positions, and Xanthe is one of twelve academics at the University of Sydney to receive a DECRA …
Observing Interference: QCL’s groundbreaking research featured on the cover of Nature Chemistry
Congratulations to scientists in the Quantum Control Laboratory and the Kassal Group, whose work recently featured in the Sydney Morning Herald and on the cover of Nature Chemistry. What makes this research so groundbreaking? For the first time, scientists have successfully used a quantum computer to slow down a chemical interaction by a factor of 100 …
Cory Aitchison wins the Shiroki Prize and AIP’s NSW Best Graduating Student for Physics Honours
Congratulations to Cory for winning the Shiroki Prize for Best Honours Project in Physics. The Shiroki Prize was established in 1994 by a gift of $10,000 from Mr Yoshitada Fujimaki, President of the Shiroki Corporation, Japan, and is annually awarded on the recommendation of the Head of the School of Physics to the student who …
Cory Aitchison wins a Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Please join me in congratulating Cory Aitchison, who was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to undertake a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at The University of Cambridge, starting in October. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship Programme, which was established in October 2000 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, offers approximately 80 full-cost scholarships …