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Waterloo, ON, March 2006 - In May 2007, Perimeter Institute will welcome a new Faculty member to its team of internationally renowned researchers Dr. Michael Aaron Nielsen, specializing in Quantum Information Theory, will be the tenth faculty member at PI and joins a full roster of resident scientists who are researching foundational issues at the highest levels of excellence. Dr. Nielsen is currently Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Queensland. Previous roles include Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science (2003-04), Principal Research Fellow (Associate Professor) (2000-03) and Postdoctoral Fellow (2000) in the Department of Physics at the University of Queensland. He was also the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at CalTech (1998-2000). Nielsen is author or co-author of 53 papers either published or accepted for publication in international refereed journals since 1996, with 1426 citations. His comprehensive textbook, “Quantum Computation and Quantum Information” (Cambridge University Press, 2000, and co-authored with I.L. Chuang) has received 2077 citations since publication and is considered by many to be the most significant textbook on quantum information currently available. He is an invited contributor to Nature and Scientific American, the founding issue of Quantum Information and Computation, and The Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Nielsen is known for his fundamental work on the theory of entangled quantum states, which are the essential physical resource underlying quantum information processing. His majorization theorem is a fundamental tool used by researchers to classify and compare the power of different entangled quantum states. Dr. Nielsen received his PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico (1998), working under dissertation advisor Carlton M. Caves. He attained his MSc in physics from the University of Queensland (1998) under the advisement of Gerard J. Milburn and Jason Twamley. Research Assistant roles include work at Los Alamos (1997-98), CalTech under Prof. John Preskill (1997), and University of New Mexico under Prof. Carlton M. Caves (1996-1997). During his undergraduate and postgraduate coursework at the University of Queensland (1991-94), Nielsen was awarded eight prizes, including a University of Queensland University Medal and the Harriet Marks Bursary for the top student completing a Bachelor of Science degree. The recognition has continued since with awards and honours including the Australian Postgraduate Award (1995), the Fulbright Postgraduate Student Award (1995-2000), and the University of Queensland Research Excellence Award (2001). Nielsen was also named in the Science list of the ten most significant scientific breakthroughs of 1998, for work on experimental quantum teleportation - joint work with Emanuel H. Knill and Raymond Laflamme of Los Alamos (Laflamme is now with Perimeter Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing) - as published in Nature. He has given seminars at institutions including Caltech, Cambridge, CWI (Netherlands), Harvard, IBM Research (Almaden and Yorktown Heights), Imperial College (London University), Innsbruck, ISI (Italy), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Microsoft Research, MIT, Montana State University, Oxford, Princeton, the Santa Fe Institute, Stanford, the University of Waterloo, and many others.
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