Welcome to UW-Madison’s first-ever Qiskit Fall Fest in partnership with IBM Quantum! Embark on an exhilarating journey into quantum computing with us at the Qiskit Fall Fest! Whether you’re already a quantum wizard or just starting to explore this cutting-edge field, you’re in for an incredible learning experience. Get ready for a creative lineup of…
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Choy leads team awarded National Science Foundation Quantum Sensing Challenge Grant
The National Science Foundation has selected a proposal “Compact and robust quantum atomic sensors for timekeeping and inertial sensing” by an interdisciplinary team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers for...
Read the full article at: https://engineering.wisc.edu/blog/choy-leads-team-awarded-national-science-foundation-quantum-sensing-challenge-grant/Jennifer Choy: A quantum community fueled by multidisciplinary collaboration
Prof. Choy is featured in the CQE article: The Rising Leaders of the Quantum Prairie
Read the full article at: https://chicagoquantum.org/news/rising-leaders-quantum-prairiePreston Huft wins Wiki Science Photo Contest
Preston Huft, a graduate student in Mark Saffman’s group, was notified this week that he won the SmartElectron prize in the 2021 Wiki Science Photo Contest. Congratulations Preston!
Welcome, assistant professor Ilya Esterlis
When Lake Mendota freezes over in the winter and thaws in the spring, those water/ice phase transitions might seem mundane. But, says new assistant professor of physics Ilya Esterlis, interesting things happen during phase transitions, …
Read the full article at: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/2022/12/27/welcome-assistant-professor-ilya-esterlis/New technique reveals changing shapes of magnetic noise in space and time
This article was originally published by Princeton Engineering Electromagnetic noise poses a major problem for communications, prompting wireless carriers to invest heavily in technologies to overcome it. But for a team of scientists exploring the …
Read the full article at: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/2022/12/23/new-technique-reveals-changing-shapes-of-magnetic-noise-in-space-and-time/Margaret Fortman awarded Google quantum computing fellowship
This post was adapted from a story posted by the UW–Madison Graduate School Two UW–Madison graduate students, including physics grad student Margaret Fortman, have been awarded 2022 Google Fellowships to pursue cutting-edge research. Fortman received …
Read the full article at: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/2022/09/08/margaret-fortman-awarded-google-quantum-computing-fellowship/Robert McDermott elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
WQI’s Robert McDermott has been elected a 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society. | Read more at UW Physics
Eom receives Vannevar Bush faculty fellowship to study new class of thin films
WQI member and materials science and engineering professor Chang-Beom Eom has received a 2020 Vannevar Bush faculty fellowship from the Department of Defense. He’ll use the $3 million in funding to investigate “a new family of quantum materials.”
Mark Eriksson earns WARF named professorship
Mark Eriksson has been named the John Bardeen Professor of Physics, through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) named professorship program.
The WARF named professorship program provides recognition for distinguished research contributions of the UW–Madison faculty. The awards are intended to honor those 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.
To learn more about Eriksson’s research, and why he chose fellow UW–Madison alum John Bardeen as the namesake for his professorship, please read the original story.