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EDPY PhD student awarded Google PhD Fellowship in Quantum Computing

Published:18.11.24 — Manuel Rudolph (Prof. Zoë Holmes' lab), is honored to be the first EPFL Physics PhD student to receive the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship in quantum computing. This year, the award was granted to three candidates, a number that has varied between one and four in past years.

Two IPHYS polymechanic apprentices win FRAISA awards

Published:22.10.24 — Mr. Anthonin Gavillet and Mr. Julien Verdet, both polymechanic apprentices in the IPHYS mechanical workshop, have won prizes in the Fraisa ToolChampions 2023/2024 competition.

New benchmark helps solve the hardest quantum problems

Published:18.10.24 — Predicting the behavior of many interacting quantum particles is a complicated process but is key to harness quantum computing for real-world applications. A collaboration of researchers led by EPFL has developed a method for comparing quantum algorithms and identifying which quantum problems are the hardest to solve.