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Lloyd Rees Lecture and Geoffrey Frew Fellowship announced
The Australian Academy of Science has announced that Jelena Vuckovic of Stanford University has been awarded the 2023 Geoffrey Frew Fellowship, which is awarded to distinguished overseas scientists to participate in the Australian Spectroscopy Conferences and to visit scientific centers in Australia. Read More
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DoD Awards $59 million in University Research Equipment Awards
University of Chicago’s Hannes Bernien is among the recipients of the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program Award. The award supports his research in individual qubit control for atom array processors. Read More
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Introducing Crain's 40 Under 40 class of 2022
From Crain's Chicago Business: Pranav Gokhale, vice president of quantum software at ColdQuanta, makes Crain's Chicago Business's 40 Under 40 list, helpling build software that can be used to write quantum programs in any type of source language, which could speed up the development of quantum applications. Read More
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Top Italian scientific foundation presents Giulia Galli with Lifetime Achievement Award
From the University of Chicago: The Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation has presented Giulia Galli, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and chemistry at the University of Chicago, with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her seminal contributions to the development of methods for the prediction of materials’ properties. Read More
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Danna Freedman receives 2022 MacArthur Fellowship
From MIT News: Danna Freedman, the F.G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT and a Q-NEXT member, has been named a recipient of a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship. Freedman designs novel molecules that could be used for quantum sensing and communication. Read More
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Quantum physics titans win Breakthrough Prize
From Scientific American: This year’s Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors four pioneers who combined math, computer science and physics to do “foundational work in the field of quantum information.” The prize is shared between Charles Bennett of IBM, Gilles Brassard of the University of Montreal, David Deutsch of the University of Oxford and Peter Shor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read More
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Prestigious New Horizons in Physics Prize awarded to UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering faculty Hannes Bernien
From the University of Chicago: Given to promising early-career researchers who have produced significant work, Q-NEXT collaborator Bernien and his colleagues are being recognized for developing optical tweezer arrays able to control individual atoms for use in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics. Read More
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Chemist Randall Goldsmith named a Schmidt Science Polymath
Q-NEXT collaborator Randall Goldsmith exploits quantum processes to focus on single molecules. His approach to studying chemical and biophysical systems caught the attention of Schmidt Futures, which named Goldsmith one of its 2022 Schmidt Science Polymaths award winners. Each of the 10 recipients, who are newly tenured university faculty chosen for their promising interdisciplinary research, receives $2.5 million over five years to help fund their research groups. Read More
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Liang Jiang named finalist for 2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
From the University of Chicago: Jiang investigates quantum control and quantum error correction to protect quantum information from decoherence. Potential applications for his work include quantum sensing, quantum transduction, quantum communication, and quantum computation. Read More
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Danna Freedman named 2022 Blavatnik Award finalist
From MIT Chemistry: Freedman has elevated molecular qubits to the cutting edge of quantum information science by achieving record stability and demonstrating optical read-out of a molecular qubit state. Thanks to her momentous discoveries, molecular qubits will certainly be a major player in future quantum information technology. Read More
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HRL Laboratories silicon encoded spin qubits achieve universality
From HRL Laboratories: HRL Laboratories, LLC, has published the first demonstration of universal control of encoded spin qubits. This newly emerging approach to quantum computation uses a novel silicon-based qubit device architecture to trap single electrons in quantum dots. Read More
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Exploring the real science behind 'Ant Man'
From Fox 32 Chicago: David Awschalom walks through the real science behind “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” in this 4-minute segment. Read More
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Who cares about quantum?
From Direct Current: "Quantum" is everywhere these days — in the news, on TV, in the titles of blockbuster action films — but what even is it? Why is it important to understand it? Who cares about quantum? The Department of Energy gets philosophical with … Read More
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Women in STEM: in conversation with Assistant Professor Jennifer Choy
From AZoQuantum: AZoQuantum spoke with Q-NEXT collaborator Jennifer Choy, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the field of quantum physics and her impressive research career in this sector. Read More
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Researchers take a step toward novel quantum simulators
From SLAC News: Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, including Q-NEXT's David Goldhaber-Gordon, take a step toward novel quantum simulator that could help answer questions about certain kinds of superconductors and other unusual states of matter. Read More