Sponsor

Each year National Quantum Information Centre sponsors KCIK Awards for the best BSc, MSc and PhD theses in the field of quantum information published in Poland.

Bronze Award

Z przyjemnością informujemy, że w ramach działalności KCIK, przyznawana będzie nagroda za najlepsze prace magisterskie. W tym roku wyróżnimy autorów prac obronionych w latach 2023 i 2024.

Nagroda o randze brązowej zostanie przyznana autorom prac o wysokim poziomie merytorycznym i innowacyjnym podejściu do tematu.

Do wzięcia udziału w konkursie kwalifikują się autorzy prac magisterskich obronionych w Polsce w latach 2023 i 2024.

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powinien zostać przesłany przez kandydata lub jego promotora do 09.03.2025 r. na adres email: kcikaward@ug.edu.pl

Zachęcamy do zgłaszania swoich prac i życzymy powodzenia wszystkim uczestnikom!

Junior KCIK Award – for best BSc thesis.

List of laureates

Bronze Award – for best MSc thesis in Quantum Information published in Poland (3000 PLN). To participate, an author should send an application before January 31 2024 to the email address: kcikaward@ug.edu.pl.

List of laureates

Silver Award – for best PhD thesis in Quantum Information published in Poland (5000 PLN). To participate, an author should send an application before January 31, 2024 to the email address: kcikaward@ug.edu.pl.

List of laureates

Results of Junior KCIK Award 2023

Junior KCIK Award 2023 was awarded ex aequo to

Mr. Mansur Muzafarov (UW) for the thesis „The time operator in quantum mechanics. A geometric approach to the problem of quantization”

and

Mr. Ignacy Stachura (UW) for the thesis „Genuine Bell nonlocality in many-body quantum systems„

Results of KCIK Awards 2022

Bronze Award – for the best Master Thesis on quantum information defended in Poland in 2022 (3000 PLN):

Karol Łukanowski, University of Warsaw

Silver Award – for the best PhD Thesis on quantum information defended in Poland in 2022 (5000 PLN):

dr Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć, CFT PAN, Centre of Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences

The winners are invited to give a talk on XIV KCIK- ICTQT Symposium on Quantum Information, Sopot, May 18-20 2023.

Results of KCIK Awards 2021

  1. Golden Award – 2021 EUR for solving problem 3 [Find solution of the problem of 36 entangled officers of Euler, or show the solution does not exist] awarded to:
    • Suhail Ahmad Rather (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
    • Adam Burchardt (QuSoft, University of Amsterdam)
    • Wojciech Bruzda (Jagiellonian University)
    • Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

Results of Junior KCIK Award 2021

Junior KCIK Award 2021 was awarded to Mr. Piotr Dulian (UW) for the thesis entitled Efficiency of random sets of gates

Two more theses received distinction (honorable mention)

  • Compilation of qubit quantum gates in the presence of noise by Jakub Korsak (University of Warsaw), and
  • Bell inequalities for quantum states of local dimension higher than two by Błażej Kuzak (University of Warsaw)

Results of KCIK Awards 2020

  1. Golden Award – not awarded, competition remains open!
  2. Silver Award for the best PhD thesis on quantum information defended in Poland in 2020 awarded to dr. Anna Szczepanek (Jagiellonian University) for the thesis: Quantum Dynamical Entropy of Unitary Operators in Finite-dimensional State Spaces.
  3. Bronze Award for the best MSc thesis on quantum information defended in Poland in 2020 awarded to Michał Lipka (University of Warsaw), for the thesis: Generation of polarization entanglement in wavevector-multiplexed atomic quantum memory.
  4. Special distinction went to Jakub Czartowski (Jagiellonian University) for the verification of the obtained solution on a quantum computer, title of the distinguished MSc thesis: Global quantum measurements with optimal single-sided distinguishability.
  5. Junior KCIK Award 2020 for the best BSc thesis published in Poland in 2020:
    • 1st Place: Karol Łukanowski (University of Warsaw), thesis title: Optimal light state assemblies in quantum communication in the presence of losses.
    • 2nd Place: Marcin Rudziński (Jagiellonian University, Cracow), thesis title: Generalized quantum measurements in the stellar representation.

Results of KCIK Awards 2019

  1. Golden Award – not awarded, competition remains open!
  2. Silver Award for the best PhD thesis on quantum information defended in Poland in 2019 awarded to dr, Michał Parniak (University of Warsaw) for the thesis: Multimode Quantum Optics with Spin Waves and Photons.
  3. Bronze Award for the best MSc thesis on quantum information defended in Poland in 2019 awarded to Filip Maciejewski (University of Warsaw), for the thesis: POVMs on quantum devices.
  4. Distinction for the clarity and high technical complexity of the work to Katarzyna Siudzińska (UMK Toruń). Title of the PhD thesis: Evolution of open quantum systems governed by unitarily covariant quantum channels.