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Congrats Sophie and Mariana!

May 1, 2024May 1, 2024 mehulmalik

Last week was a big one for BBQLab with our PhD students Sophie and Mariana both winning poster prizes at two different conferences across the UK!

Sophie won the runner’s up best poster award at the Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop (BQIT:24) for her poster on “Certifying the dimensionality of a quantum channel” and Mariana won the best poster award at the Scottish Conference in Optical Technologies (SCOT) for her poster on “A multiplexed programmable quantum photonic network.” Mehul also had the privilege of giving a keynote talk at the SCOT conference, which brought together the optics and photonics community in Scotland.

Congratulations both!

PhD Opening

November 24, 2023January 22, 2024 mehulmalik

Hiring vs. Recruiting: What's the Difference?

We are currently advertising a 4-year PhD position in our group. If you are interested in joining us, please look at our Openings page for more information. This position will be open for applications until January 15th, 2024.

BBQLab @ Benasque QI 23

July 1, 2023August 21, 2023 mehulmalik

We just wrapped up a fantastic week at the Benasque Quantum Information workshop in the mountains of Spain! We had intense discussions with theorists from many, many fields in QI, as well as a very productive EDI session addressing several issues in academia, ranging from workers’ rights to the mobility of scientific researchers.

Here’s to deeper dialogues between theory and experiment at venues like the fantastic Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual! (Yes, their doors are also blackboards)

Optics @ Nether Currie Primary

June 23, 2023August 21, 2023 mehulmalik

Sophie and Mehul had a great time teaching P5 and P6 students at Nether Currie Primary School in Edinburgh about light and optical interference. The students showed an incredible level of engagement and even helped us align a Mach-Zehnder interferometer! We were finally able to answer the question: how loud does a P5 have to yell to change the interferometer phase by pi?