13 December 2022, ILLC Turing Chair for Quantum Software - Symposium in honor of Gilles Brassard

Professor Gilles Brassard holds the ‘Turing Chair for Quantum Software’ at ILLC UvA, and he is hosted at QuSoft at NWO CWI. In honor of Brassard, we are organising a symposium at Science Park Amsterdam on 13 December 2022, from 13.00 – 16.00.

You are all invited to attend this special symposium, with Gilles Brassard, Maris Ozols and Ludovico Lami.

We are honored that Gilles Brassard is with us on this day to give a technical talk. Gilles Brassard (Université de Montréal) was awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, for foundational work in quantum information. He shares this prize with Charles Bennett, David Deutsch and Peter Shor.