Quantum Science & Technology
²ÊÃñ±¦µä today announced seven winners of the 2023-2024 translational quantum research seed grants, incentivizing quantum science and technology innovations launched from the lab to accelerate them along the development path to new programs and businesses.
On Oct. 20, while touring JILA and various labs, Bennet celebrated an announcement by Gov. Jared Polis that the U.S. Department of Commerce had designated Colorado’s Elevate Quantum consortium a Regional Technology Hub for Quantum Information Technology (QIT).
Leaders from Colorado’s quantum ecosystem convened on campus last week to create a roadmap for workforce development in this growing field. Gov. Jared Polis kicked off the event, attended by state legislators, leaders in higher education, industry, government and skill-building organizations.
As executive director, Sternberg will work with CUbit leadership to set the strategic direction of the initiative, coordinate with CUbit researchers to pursue and capture large-scale research opportunities, and broadly support the translation of quantum research to operations through networks of industry partners.
Research Professor Svenja Knappe, who is a physicist by training but calls the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering home, is an ideal person to be at the center of a growing cluster of quantum researchers who are ushering in the second quantum revolution on campus and abroad.
Leaders from across ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and NIST gathered last week to celebrate the official launch of the Quantum Engineering Initiative Lab space within the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The newly dedicated area will connect quantum researchers across campus with NIST researchers and local industry.
Colorado's Economic Development Commission will create two seed grants, administered by ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s CUbit Quantum Initiative, to help get quantum out of the lab and into the marketplace. The grants can be used by any Colorado research institution or industry partners.
Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering at the U.S. Department of Defense, visited ²ÊÃñ±¦µä to glimpse the future of cutting-edge research. During this visit, Shyu toured labs, listened to short lectures by ²ÊÃñ±¦µä researchers, and participated in a spirited roundtable discussion campus leaders.
A multi-university research team, including engineers and physicists from ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and NIST, will build technology and tools to improve measurement of important climate factors by observing atoms in outer space. The new Quantum Pathways Institute is led by the University of Texas at Austin.
The CUbit Quantum Initiative at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä has appointed physics professor Noah Finkelstein to serve as faculty director of education and workforce. Finkelstein will lead CUbit’s establishment of a coordinated educational approach that cultivates leaders of the next-generation quantum workforce.