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SFI Principal Investigator Award
Jiri Vala has been awarded an SFI Principal Investigator Award for research on "Naturally Fault Tolerant Quantum Information Processing: From Concepts to Media Devices and Algorithms". This is the only such award to be won by a researcher at N.U.I. Maynooth for 2011.
Sean Sherlock TD, Minister for Research & Innovation, Dr Jiri Vala, NUI Maynooth and John Travers, Director General, Science Foundation Ireland
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N.U.I.M. Press Release
S.F.I. Press ReleaseULYSSES Awards 2010
Jiri Vala and Graham Kells have received one of the 2010 ULYSSES Awards from IRCSET and Egide France to foster collaboration with Nicolas Regnault from ENS Paris and Vincent Pasquier from CEA Saclay. More information at the IRCSET website www.ircset.ie.SHELL Theoretical Physics Prizes
Postgraduate student at DIAS, Olaf Smits and Shanna Haaker, a collaborator of Joost Slingerland have both won a "SHELL Theoretical Physics Stipend". These prizes are awarded each year to the best masters students in theoretical physics in the Netherlands. More information, including the full text of the master theses is here a http://www1.phys.uu.nl/drstp/SHELL/2009/info.htmlRecent paper featured in Viewpoint on Physics
A recent paper entitled "Interferometric signature of non-Abelian anyons" by Waheb Bishara, Parsa Bonderson, Chetan Nayak, Kirill Shtengel, and J.K. Slingerland which was published October 05, 2009 in Phys. Rev. B 80, 155303 has been featured in a viepoint in "Physics", "Quasiparticles do the twist", Physics 2, 82 (2009), by Joel E. Moore. The viewpoint and the paper are available for free from the APS website: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v2/82?referer=rssNew additions to the group
This year has seen the addition of three new postgraduate students and one new postdoctoral scholar. Robert Ainsworth and Glen Burella based at NUIM have joined Joost Slingerland and Jiri Vala's groups. Ivan Rodriguez based at NUIM has also joined Joost Slingerland's group as a postdoctoral fellow. Olaf Smits has started working at DIAS as a postgraduate student under Werner Nahm's supervision and will be collaborating closely with Joost Slingerland's group. Glen Burella, based at NUIM has joined Jiri Vala's group as a postgraduate student.SFI Principal Investigator Award
Joost Slingerland has been awarded an SFI Principal Investigator Award for research on "Topological Order, Quantum Computation and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect", more details here: http://www.thphys.nuim.ie/staff/joost/PI/intro.htmlSFI President of Ireland Young Researcher Award
Jiri Vala has been awarded an SFI President of Ireland Young Researcher Award. More information at http://www.thphys.nuim.ie/staff/jvala/jvala.htm