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Projects and Awards

  • Maris Ozols (ILLC-CWI) and Florian Schreck (IoP) receive NGF Quantum Technology programme award

    While quantum computers offer unprecedented opportunities for speeding up certain types of computations, their development remains very challenging. Maris Ozols (ILLC-CWI) and Florian Schreck (UvA-IoP) propose to take advantage of existing but unused internal structures of quantum systems, such as individual atoms, for quantum computation and studies of fundamental theories of Nature. They will develop new algorithms to achieve this and test them with one of the leading platforms for quantum computing, an array of neutral atoms cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero.
  • Balder ten Cate and co-authors receive ACM SIGMOD Research Highlights Award

    Research on "Extremal Fitting Problems for Conjunctive Queries" (Balder ten Cate, Victor Dalmau, Maurice Funk and Victor, ACM PODS 2023) has been selected by the ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award Committee to be featured in an upcoming issue of the ACM SIGMOD Record journal.

    SIGMOD Research Highlights are to showcase a set of research projects that exemplify core database research. In particular, these projects address an important problem, represent a definitive milestone in solving the problem, and have the potential of significant impact. SIGMOD Research Highlights also aim to make the selected works widely known in the database community, to our industry partners, and to the broader ACM community.

    Earlier this year, Balder ten Cate, together with different sets of co-authors, already received the IJCAI 2023 Distinguished Paper Award; the ACM PODS 2023 Best Paper Award; and the ACM Albert O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award.

    For more information, contact Balder ten Cate at .