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Projects and Awards
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(New) Large NWA grant for research into the social impact of quantum secure cryptography
The arrival of quantum computers will have major societal consequences, especially in the field of cybersecurity. A new consortium led by Sebastian De Haro of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and the Institute of Physics of the University of Amsterdam has received a grant of over 900,000 euros from NWO's Nationale Wetenschapsagenda (National Science Agenda, NWA) to study the impact of this transition and to help manage it.
For more information, see https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-natuurwetenschappen-wiskunde-en-informatica/news/2022/05/large-nwa-grant-for-research-into-the-social-impact-of-quantum-secure-cryptography.html?origin=TcWv2FH7QiyRJQ3nsarwIQ&fbclid=IwAR1Z49f46ge1RJbm23KDjwLbhKN5AalXeg3sFpyXMzjHdiYzahZR4pqWTGo or contact Sebastian De Haro at s.deharo at uva.nl. -
Oliviero Nardi one of seven faculty winners for UvA Thesis Prize 2022
We are proud to announce that Oliviero Nardi is one of the seven faculty winners for the UvA Thesis Prize 2022. Oliviero completed his MSc AI with a thesis on "A Graph-Based Algorithm for the Automated Justification of Collective Decisions" in July 2021. The thesis was supervised by Arthur Boixel and Ulle Endriss.
For more information, see https://alumni.uva.nl/en/shared-content/news/news/2022/03/nominees-for-the-uva-thesis-prize-2022.html or contact Ulle Endriss at ulle.endriss at uva.nl.