Anne Broadbent

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Anne Broadbent
Alma mater Université de Montréal
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FieldsMathematics
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Thesis Quantum nonlocality, cryptography and complexity  (2008)
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Anne Lise Broadbent is a mathematician at the University of Ottawa who won the 2016 Aisenstadt Prize for her research in quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Broadbent specialised in music at De La Salle High School in Ottawa, graduating in 1997. Her interest in science led her to major in mathematics for her undergraduate degree. [3]

Broadbent was a student of Alain Tapp and Gilles Brassard at the Université de Montréal, where she completed her master's in 2004 in the topic of Quantum pseudo-telepathy games, [4] and her Ph.D. in 2008 with a dissertation on Quantum nonlocality, cryptography and complexity. [1] [5] [6]

Career

After postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, she moved to Ottawa in 2014. [1] She is a Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Ottawa and holds a University Research Chair there. [7]

Awards

Broadbent is the winner of the 2010 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics of the Council of Ontario Universities. [1] [8] She was awarded the Aisenstadt Prize by International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in 2016 for her leadership and work in quantum information and cryptography.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 2016 André Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics Recipient: Anne Broadbent (University of Ottawa), Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal, retrieved 2018-05-05
  2. "Broadbent Awarded Aisenstadt Prize" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 64 (2): 148, February 2017
  3. "Anne Broadbent, scientifique superstar". Le Droit (in French). 2012-01-28. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  4. Broadbent, Anne Lise (2004). Quantum pseudo-telepathy games. hdl:1866/14563. OCLC   969916927.
  5. Anne Broadbent at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Broadbent, Anne Lise (2008). Quantum nonlocality, cryptography and complexity. hdl:1866/6448. OCLC   969910426.
  7. Anne Broadbent, University of Ottawa Department of Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2024-02-06
  8. IQC postdoc earns prestigious Polanyi Prize, University of Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing, November 29, 2010, retrieved 2018-05-05