Home Page Image
 
QUISCO - The Scottish Quantum Information Research Network
 
  
 

About
Quantum Information Scotland (QUISCO) is a network of researchers working on all aspects of quantum information science. Its aim is to promote a research community of physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians in Scotland, to encourage a dialogue amongst the diverse spectrum of disciplines and promote collaboration.

QUISCO was founded by Elham Kashefi (Edinburgh), Daniel Oi (Strathclyde), Erika Andersson (Heriot-Watt), Simon Gay (Glasgow), and Natalia Korolkova (St Andrews) in 2008. It holds regular meetings for the presentation of research, open problems, perspectives, and opportunities related to quantum information science. QUISCO is associated with SUPA, SICSA, QNET and QQQ.

 Lucas Dixon
QUISCO

News:

The next QUISCO meeting will held at Heriot-Watt University on Tuesday 23rd June 2009. Details here.

We welcome the addition of Dr Shashank Virmani to QUISCO. Dr Virmani joins the Physics Department of Strathclyde University having previously been at Hertfordshire University. His main interests are measurement, fault tolerance, and entanglement.

Older News:

The latest QUISCO Meeting was at Glasgow University on the 1st April 2009.

There was a QUISCO session at the QNET meeting at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, in the afternoon of Friday 19th December 2008. Information on this meeting can be found at QNET meeting page.

Our third one-day meeting was on the 24th October 2008 at the University of St Andrews. The speakers were be Prof. Barry Sanders (Calgary), Dr. Yuan Feng (Tsinghua) , and Prof. John Rarity (Bristol). There were discussion panels and poster sessions. The talks were held in the Nisbet Room, David Russell Apartments, Buchanan Gardens, University of St Andrews, KY16 9LY. Attendance was free. Details.

Our second one-day meeting was on the 13th June 2008 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Prof. Mark Hillery (CUNY) gave the keynote address which was on the topic of Quantum Machines. Details. Poster

Our inaugural meeting was on Thursday 27th March 2008 in Edinburgh. Our main speakers were Prof. Steve Barnett FRS (Strathclyde) and Prof. Samson Abramsky FRS (Oxford). Details: Programme. Photos from the meeting can be found here. Highlights only.

Post-Inaugural Meeting: We welcome Michael Merkl as the latest member to joing the QUISCO organising team as the student representative. Michael is currently doing a PhD at Heriot-Watt on Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases under Patrik Ohberg. We also welcome Natalia Korolkova from St Andrews to the management team, which completes the representation from all the major centres of quantum information research in Scotland.