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Mark Eriksson is named WQI Director
Mark Eriksson, Steenbock Professor of Physical Sciences and John Bardeen Professor of Physics, has been named Director of the Wisconsin Quantum Institute. Eriksson will succeed Mark Saffman, the inaugural WQI director and the Johannes Rydberg …
February 24, 2026Infleqtion Becomes First Neutral-Atom Quantum Company to Go Public
February 17, 2026


Tiancheng Song earns DOE Early Career award!
January 20, 2026

Crossroads of Ideas hosted prof. Aws Albargouthi, prof. Matthew Otten and Dr. Katerina Moloni for the Quantum Frontiers fire chat discussion.
Quantum science might sound like it belongs in the lab or a science fiction novel, but its impact is already woven into our daily lives—from the technology in our phones to the future of computing …
December 15, 2025
Mark Saffman awarded the Bell prize!
December 12, 2025UW–Madison builds on partnerships at Chicago Quantum Summit
November 10, 2025Congratulations to everyone that participated in the WQI Hackathon this year!
The hackathon focused on 3 key themes with specific open challenges in each theme: Quantum Benchmarking graphs: Quantum computing research papers will be shared and the task will be to create the Quantum Benchmarking graphs …
November 9, 2025- More News