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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Caros colegas do INCT-IQ,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Espero que estejam todos bem. Gostaria de divulgar a abertura de duas posições de pós-doutorado na área dos fundamentos da computação quântica,
no meu grupo no INL, em Braga, Portugal. Abaixo dou mais detalhes, com o link para a chamada oficial. O prazo de inscrições se encerra em 16/3. Por favor divulguem junto aos possíveis interessados. Cordialmente,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ernesto.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555">Overview</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555">Would you like to advance our understanding and contribute to the development of quantum computing? Our view is that the future success of quantum computing critically depends on
advances at the most fundamental level, and that large-scale investments in quantum implementations will only pay off if they can draw on additional foundational insights and ideas. While several powerful quantum algorithms are known, the basic techniques
they employ are few and far between. Largely, it still remains to be discovered how to systematically harness the quantum for computation.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555">We are seeking <b>two qualified Postdoctoral Researchers</b> in the fields of <b>quantum computation theory</b> and/or <b>quantum foundations</b> to work within the scope of the European–Canadian
project FoQaCiA – Foundations of Quantum Computational Advantage.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555">The researchers will work on the foundations of quantum computational advantage, in particular investigating the role of contextuality and other markers of nonclassicality, taking
into account the causal structure implicit in computational processes.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555">The research fellows will join the Quantum and Linear-Optical Computation research group at INL in Braga, Portugal. They will work under the scientific guidance of Rui Soares Barbosa
and Ernesto F. Galvão.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555">Additionally, they will benefit from integration into FoQaCiA’s highly interdisciplinary and international team, including scientists at 7 European and 4 Canadian nodes: INL (Galvão,
Barbosa), U. College London (S Abramsky), Stockholm U. (I Bengtsson), U. Granada (Bermejo-Vega), U. Sevilla (Cabello), Bilkent U. (Okay), U. Gdańsk (Sainz); U. British Columbia (Raussendorf), U. Ottawa (Broadbent), Simon Fraser U. (de Silva), U. Waterloo (Yard).</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555">The FoQaCia project is funded by the European Union as part of a EU–Canada action, with the code 101070558.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">For more information and the call:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Ernesto.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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