IQC Fireside Chat with Raymond Laflamme

Join us for an intimate conversation featuring IQC researchers. Our first guest is Professor Raymond Laflamme, interviewed by John Donohue. John and Raymond will have a conversation about research, careers, and life in quantum information science, followed by Q&A from the audience. Tune in Tuesday August 11 at 7:00pm Eastern Time. Raymond Laflamme is a Professor and former Executive Director at the Institute for Quantum Computing. A native of Quebec City, he earned his PhD at Cambridge University Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Stephen Hawking. After post-doctoral fellowships in Vancouver and in Cambridge, he settled at Los Alamos National lab until 2001 when he came to Waterloo to become the Founding Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, which he lead for 15 years. He has also been an Associate Researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics since 2001. As a pioneer in quantum information processing, he has earned Fellowships from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Canada, and was inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019. He presently holds the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis “John von Neumann” Chair in Quantum Information and a Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information. In 2010 he co-founded Universal Quantum Devices, a startup commercializing spinoffs of quantum information research and in 2015, he founded QuantumLaf Inc.