Anne Broadbent

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]

Early life and education

Broadbent was a student of Alain Tapp and Gilles Brassard at the Université de Montréal, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2008 with a dissertation on Quantum nonlocality, cryptography and complexity.[1][3] After postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, she moved to Ottawa in 2014.[1] She is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa and holds a University Research Chair there.[4]

Awards

Broadbent is the winner of the 2010 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics of the Council of Ontario Universities.[1][5] 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.

References
  1. 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 at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Professors", About the Department, University of Ottawa Department of Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2018-05-05
  5. IQC postdoc earns prestigious Polanyi Prize, University of Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing, November 29, 2010, retrieved 2018-05-05


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