Quantum computing is the key to solving problems regular computers can’t handle, like designing silver-bullet drugs for cancer or improving materials for data storage. QuantumX is bringing together quantum expertise across the UW campus to stimulate research and teaching on all things quantum.
April 27, 2020: Fedor Jelezko, Professor of physics and Director Institute for Quantum Optics, at Ulm University in Germany, will give a virtual seminar.
April 7, 2020: Sonia Buckley, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will give a virtual seminar on chip-scale quantum optics.
UW Professor Kai-Mei Fu, an experimental physics researcher and professor focusing on advanced quantum technologies, sat down with Dr. Krysta Svore, general manager of quantum systems and software at Microsoft, for the latest episode of Microsoft’s Quantum Impact series.
February 20-21, 2020: The Northwest Quantum Nexus (NQN) is bringing together experts for a workshop at Washington State University to discuss the state of quantum physics in the Pacific Northwest and beyond with a particular focus on the role of atomic systems in the future of quantum technology.
February 11, 2020: Nathan Wiebe, Assistant Professor of Physics from the University of Washington, will give a talk at the ECE colloquium.
January 28, 2020: Alexander Gaeta, Professor of Applied Physics from Columbia University, will present.
UW physicists Martin Savage and David Herzog co-authored a report to the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee that assesses the potential impact of quantum information science on nuclear physics and describes the unique contributions nuclear physics research could make to accelerate advances in quantum information science.
December 10, 2019: Dr. Dave Bacon, a senior software engineer at Google, will present in the Amazon Auditorium.
November 22, 2019: Norm Tubman, a research scientist from NASA Ames Research Center’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) will present.
October 17, 2019: David Weld, Assistant Professor of Physics from UC Santa Barbara, will present.
November 14-15, 2019: The Northwest Quantum Nexus (NQN) is bringing together experts across many qubit platforms to define and seek solutions to the outstanding challenges in qubit transduction for a workshop at the University of Washington on November 14-15. This 2-day workshop will be organized into focus sessions on photon-photon transduction, photon-spin transduction, ion-superconducting qubit transduction, interfacing to topological qubits, and machine learning to facilitate quantum measurement, control, and transduction.