Goals of the DP-PMI
The Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information: Foundations of Future Information Technologies (DP-PMI) aims at providing advanced curricular and research training in the recent developments and fundamental challenges in information sciences and technologies.
The DP-PMI offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach – unique at international level – to tackle these challenges, exploiting the complementarities of a very diverse team of theoretical physicists, mathematicians, logicians, electrical engineers and computer scientists, all experts in different aspects of information sciences and technologies. Namely, it covers the following topics:
1. Classical and Quantum Information Theory;
2. Classical and Quantum Logic, Computation and Machine Learning;
3. Classical and Quantum Information Security and Communications;
4. Limits of energy dissipation in information processing and Quantum Thermodynamics;
5. Ultimate limits to precision measurements and navigation.
In summary, by its fundamental and multidisciplinary nature, the Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information aims at training scientists and engineers capable of tackling the most extreme problems in information sciences, either for pursuing high quality scientific research or to develop unconventional and disruptive technologies for information processing and transmission, including, for example, applications to better device energy efficiency, more precise navigation or more secure communications.
The DP-PMI offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach – unique at international level – to tackle these challenges, exploiting the complementarities of a very diverse team of theoretical physicists, mathematicians, logicians, electrical engineers and computer scientists, all experts in different aspects of information sciences and technologies. Namely, it covers the following topics:
1. Classical and Quantum Information Theory;
2. Classical and Quantum Logic, Computation and Machine Learning;
3. Classical and Quantum Information Security and Communications;
4. Limits of energy dissipation in information processing and Quantum Thermodynamics;
5. Ultimate limits to precision measurements and navigation.
In summary, by its fundamental and multidisciplinary nature, the Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information aims at training scientists and engineers capable of tackling the most extreme problems in information sciences, either for pursuing high quality scientific research or to develop unconventional and disruptive technologies for information processing and transmission, including, for example, applications to better device energy efficiency, more precise navigation or more secure communications.
Target population
The Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information: Foundations of Future Information Technologies (DP-PMI) aims to attract and recruit top students at international level with a background in Physics, Mathematics, Information Sciences, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar.
The most important will be the high quality of the students and their motivation and capacity to contribute to the scientific challenges tackled by the DP-PMI. These diverse scientific backgrounds put together in the same first-year class is also one of the goals of the PD-PMI, to further exploit the multidisciplinary aspects of the programme and catalyse the cross-fertilizations between fields that often lead to the most innovative ideas and disruptive technologies.
The Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information: Foundations of Future Information Technologies (DP-PMI) aims to attract and recruit top students at international level with a background in Physics, Mathematics, Information Sciences, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar.
The most important will be the high quality of the students and their motivation and capacity to contribute to the scientific challenges tackled by the DP-PMI. These diverse scientific backgrounds put together in the same first-year class is also one of the goals of the PD-PMI, to further exploit the multidisciplinary aspects of the programme and catalyse the cross-fertilizations between fields that often lead to the most innovative ideas and disruptive technologies.