Raymond Laflamme (born 1960), OC, FRSC is a Canadian theoretical physicist and founder and until mid 2017, was the director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.
He finished his undergraduate education at the Université Laval in Canada and went on to study at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge[7] where he received the Part III of Math.
Laflamme continued to hold a Canada Research Chair and a position as Associate Faculty at Perimeter Institute.
While at Los Alamos, he was involved with the experimental implementation of quantum information processing devices using nuclear magnetic resonance.
He is also credited with developing a theoretical scheme for efficient quantum computation using linear optics, along with Emanuel Knill and Gerard J.
With colleagues Cesar Miquel, Juan Pablo Paz and Wojciech Zurek, he constructed the most compact quantum error correcting code.
Laflamme was also a participant in The Agenda With Steve Paikin discussion panel, "Wired 24/7", with Neil Gershenfeld, Jaron Lanier, Neal Stephenson, and Tara Hunt at the Quantum to Cosmos festival.
[26] Laflamme was involved in several events surrounding the grand-opening of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre at the University of Waterloo.
[27] As part of the grand-opening events, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony performed "Quantum: Music at the Frontier of Science" of which Laflamme was a collaborator in the creation of the concert narrative.