Mara Grilnberger has joined our research group.

Tijn received the university’s Young Investigators Award 2023 award for their work on distributed quantum computing. Together with Joran van Apeldoorn, they developed a new framework to employ parallel quantum query algorithms in the CONGEST model. They use this framework to break multiple classical lower bounds, including cycle detection, girth computation, meeting scheduling, and element distinctness. In particular, they show a novel exponential separation for exact CONGEST algorithms by solving a distributed version of the Deutsch-Jozsa problem.

In our field, publications are predominantly conference-based rather than journal-based. This summer one of our group members, Tijn de Vos, attended two such conferences to present their work. Tijn wrote a blog about their experiences where they reflect on the environmental impact of conference travel and how to do this as sustainable as possible. In particular, they write about how the trip this summer included 13 trains and over 5000 km of train tracks.