The history of diamond in Africa and its potential as a platform for quantum technologies
Quantum properties of diamond as demonstrated at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in the 1970s and the promise of diamond in quantum technologies
OneQuantum Africa Weekly Meetings Today
On August 18 @ 1900hrs CAT, we are glad to host Dr. Matthew Markham, Principal Scientist leading Element Six’s Diamond Quantum Technologies program.
Matthew received his master's degree in physics from the University of Southampton in 2004 followed by completing a Ph.D. in nanostructured semiconductors also while at Southampton in 2006. Then, in 2007, he joined Element Six to pursue a career as an industrial scientist. Initially, Matthew worked on a range of projects including fundamental diamond synthesis, diamond power electronics, and diamond quantum technologies.
Matthew now focuses his research and development efforts on the commercialization of diamond quantum technologies and has managed a range of successful collaborative research projects with many academic and industrial partners around the world.
The results of his work and collaborations have culminated in over 15 patents and over 50 academic papers in the field of quantum technologies.
He will cover diamond growth and diamond quantum technologies including the first experiments showing the quantum properties of diamond demonstrated at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in the 1970s!
This event is FREE and open to all.
Please invite your quantum tech colleagues.
Register for the cocktail party that comes after the meeting at 1600hrs CAT for one on one networking.
See you at OneQuantum Africa where we build strong local communities connected to the global quantum tech ecosystem!
I hope you are having a great week.
Farai Mazhandu | President | OneQuantum Africa
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Opportunity Alert!!!!!!
IBM Quantum Challenge Africa 2021
Sep 09 at 9:00 AM (local) — Sep 21 at 1:00 AM (local)
To ensure Africa is able to apply quantum computing to solve problems relevant to the continent, the IBM Research Lab in South Africa and the University of the Witwatersrand have developed a quantum computing challenge that focuses on the fields of optimization, finance, and chemistry. This challenge will boost participant's quantum computing skills and give them the tools to devise the best solutions to real-world issues faced in Africa.
The challenge exercises are developed by African researchers for African learners, researchers, and industry professionals. Participants need not have any formal education in quantum computing, as the challenge focuses on its application to already existing classical problems.
If you want to develop your skills in applying quantum computing to problems using Qiskit and the IBM Quantum platform; register below.
Interested in joining the challenge? Sign in to IBM Quantum using your IBMid
Azure Quantum Credits application
Microsoft is currently taking applications for grants worth $10k for access to Quantum Computing via Azure Quantum and would love to include applicants from the continent of Africa.
Details here —->>> Azure Quantum Credits application (qualtrics.com)
Masters student in Materials Science research opportunity
The Physics Department at Nelson Mandela University is seeking a Master’s student in the field of Materials Science research.
Please complete your details on this form and email the required documents as a single PDF file that is less than 10 MB in size to Nyasha.Suliali@mandela.ac.za. Please name your file as follows: SURNAME - Application Documents for ease of collation.