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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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Recognizing America’s leading innovative scientists, the 2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists names 31 finalists
Q-NEXT collaborators Danna Freedman of MIT and Liang Jiang of the University of Chicago are named two of 31 finalists for the 2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, the world’s largest unrestricted prize honoring early-career scientists and engineers. Read More
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University of Wisconsin–Madison's Mikhail Kats, Mark Saffman honored
From the University of Wisconsin–Madison: Q-NEXT collaborators Mikhail Kats and Mark Saffman of the University of Wisconsin–Madison have received fellowships from the university's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education for 2022-23. Kats received a Romnes Fellowship, which recognizes faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. Saffman received a WARF professorship, which honors faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities. Read More
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Molecular engineering and battery recycling: developing new technologies in quantum, medicine and energy
From the Physics World podcast: Nadya Mason, dean of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, talks about how scientists are engineering molecules to develop next-generation quantum technologies, the challenges of quantum information research, and the quantum ecosystem. Read More
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Quantum engineering with Jelena Vučković
On the Zero Knowledge podcast, Stanford University's Jelena Vučković discusses different quantum technology platforms, how researchers are developing chip-scale quantum systems, and the implications these technologies have for communication and cryptography. Read More
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Boeing hits key milestone on path to quantum first in orbit
From Payload: HRL Laboratories has built a space-hardened quantum payload and demonstrated it on the ground — a key milestone in Boeing’s push to demonstrate the first quantum entanglement swap in space. Read More
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Illinois, Taiwan partner to advance quantum, semiconductor technology
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: In a significant move to advance quantum and photonics technology, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has launched an international collaboration with multiple Taiwanese institutions to develop silicon carbide-based semiconductor devices. The project, led by UIUC's Chris Anderson, brings together quantum technology expertise from UIUC and Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. Read More
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Decoding the Universe: Quantum
From PBS' Nova: David Awschalom and Nadya Mason appear in PBS’s Nova: ‘Decoding the Universe: Quantum’. The episode takes the viewer through the quantum physics' important discoveries, discoveries that paved the way for the digital technologies we enjoy today – and the powerful quantum sensors and computers of tomorrow. Read More