Anne Lise Broadbent is a mathematician at the
University of Ottawa who won the 2016
Aisenstadt Prize
The André Aisenstadt Prize recognizes a young Canadian mathematician's outstanding achievement in pure or applied mathematics.
It has been awarded annually since 1992 (except in 1994, when no prize was given) by the Centre de Recherches Mathémat ...
for her research in
quantum computing
Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...
,
quantum cryptography, and
quantum information.
Early life and education
Broadbent specialised in music at
De La Salle High School in
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
, graduating in 1997. Her interest in science led her to major in mathematics for her undergraduate degree.
Broadbent was a student of Alain Tapp and
Gilles Brassard
Gilles Brassard, is a faculty member of the Université de Montréal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001.
Education and early life
Brassard received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell Unive ...
at the
Université de Montréal, where she completed her master's in 2004 in the topic of ''Quantum pseudo-telepathy games'', and her Ph.D. in 2008 with a dissertation on ''Quantum nonlocality, cryptography and complexity''.
Career
After postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the
University of Waterloo, she moved to Ottawa in 2014. She is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa and holds a University Research Chair there.
Awards
Broadbent is the winner of the 2010
John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics of the Council of Ontario Universities. She was awarded the Aisenstadt Prize by International Scientific Advisory Committee of the
Centre de Recherches Mathématiques The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) is the first mathematical research institute in Canada, located at the Université de Montréal.
The CRM has ten research laboratories, one in each of: mathematical analysis, number theory and symbol ...
in 2016 for her leadership and work in quantum information and cryptography.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian mathematicians
Women mathematicians
Quantum physicists
Université de Montréal alumni
Academic staff of the University of Ottawa