Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Rémi Azouit (supervisor: Pierre Rouchon; co-supervisor: Alain Sarlette) has successfully defended his PhD thesis on October 27th and is now moving as a postdoc to Sherbrooke University. This thesis provides a systematic approach towards model reduction through adiabatic elimination for open quantum systems.

• Joachim Cohen (supervisor: Mazyar Mirrahimi) has successfully defended his PhD thesis on February 2nd. This thesis provides a roadmap for future experiments on autonomous hardware efficient quantum error correction with superconducting circuits.

• Mazyar Mirrahimi has received the “Inria-Academie des Sciences young researcher award 2017”.

• Pierre Rouchon has received the “Grand Prix IMT-Academie ses Sciences 2017”.