2021 Institute & Initiative Doctoral Program campaign
Within the framework of the Institutes and Initiatives of the Sorbonne University Alliance (ASU), a campaign to award doctoral contracts financed by the French Excellence Initiative (Idex) has been launched in January 2021.
Presentation and objectives
More specifically, the Quantum Information Center Sorbonne (QICS) will award two doctoral programs related to quantum information, from both the physics and computer science point of view.
On Friday the 21st, 6 students have been auditioned by a jury (10 min presentation and 10 min question) composed of :
Frédéric Grosshans – President of the jury – LIP6 and QICS Co-Director
Khamsa Habouchi – QICS general secretary
Agnès Maître – Professor at INSP
Zaki Leghtas – Associate professor at LPENS
Anastasios Giovanidis – Researcher at LIP6
Yannick Chassagneux – Researcher at LPENS
Carlos BADER – Associate professor at ISEP
The projects selected for the doctoral program QICS
| Name of the candidate | Thesis director | Laboratory | Name of the project | Ranking |
| Kirill Gerashchenko | Antoine Heidmann & Samuel Deléglise |
LKB | MecaFlux | 1st |
| Marie Joly | Valia Voliotis & Daniel Garcia Sanchez |
INSP |
Realizing arbitrary quantum operations on a mechanical oscillator |
2nd |
| Johan Hénaff | Valentina Parigi | LKB | Complex quantum Networks for quantum machine learning protocols | 3rd |
| Alistair Brewin | Damian Markham & Alex Bredariol Grilo |
LIP6 | Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity and Derandomization | 4th |
| Niels Tripier-Mondancin | Nicolas Treps | LKB | Peignes de fréquences quantiques pour des protocoles d’information quantique | 5th |
| Samuel Bouaziz | Damien Vergnaud & Alex Bredariol Grilo |
LIP6 | Impact of quantum computers on Impagliazzo’s five worlds | not ranked |