Raymond Laflamme is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
11 Facts About Raymond Laflamme
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Later on Raymond Laflamme made a name for himself in quantum computing and quantum information theory, which is what he is famous for today.
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Raymond Laflamme was born in Quebec City in 1960 to a medical doctor father and a dietician mother.
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Raymond Laflamme finished his undergraduate education at the Universite Laval in Canada and went on to study at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge where he received the Part III of Math.
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Raymond Laflamme subsequently joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was an Oppenheimer Fellow.
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In June 2017, Raymond Laflamme stepped down as director at the Institute for Quantum Computing and in September 2017, he was appointed as the "John von Neumann" Chair in Quantum Information at the University of Waterloo, continuing his research on error correction in quantum systems.
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Raymond Laflamme continued to hold a Canada Research Chair and a position as Associate Faculty at Perimeter Institute.
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Raymond Laflamme is credited with developing a theoretical scheme for efficient quantum computation using linear optics, along with Emanuel Knill and Gerard J Milburn.
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Raymond Laflamme laid down the mathematical framework for quantum error-correcting codes, which has since developed into a broad topic of research.
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Raymond Laflamme was a featured scientist in the award-winning documentary, "The Quantum Tamers" which was presented by the Perimeter Institute and saw its Canadian premiere in October 2009 at the Quantum to Cosmos festival in Waterloo, Ontario.
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Raymond Laflamme appeared as a speaker at BrainSTEM: Your Future is Now Festival which is running from September 30 to October 6,2013.