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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 …
May 14, 2020
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 …
May 12, 2020
WQI researchers part of team awarded DARPA grant to apply quantum computers to real-world problems
Wisconsin Quantum Institute director Mark Saffman and his research group are part of a team that will attempt to make quantum computing hardware more applicable to real-world problems. The up to $7.4 million Defense Advanced …
April 19, 2020
Two students earn 2020 QISE-NET awards
Two physics graduate students, Xiaoyu Jiang and Abigail Shearrow, have had their projects awarded funding through QISE-NET, the Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network. Run through the University of Chicago, QISE-NET is open to any …
March 30, 2020
First cohort of students dives into new quantum computing master’s degree
The inaugural MS in Physics–Quantum Computing is the first program of its kind in the U.S. It addresses an emerging workforce need by preparing students to enter this rapidly growing and highly complex field. Most …
January 14, 2020
New Eriksson publication: Measurements of Capacitive Coupling Within a Quadruple-Quantum-Dot Array
The Eriksson group, including first author, grad student Sam Neyens, recently published the paper “Measurements of Capacitive Coupling Within a Quadruple-Quantum-Dot Array” in Physical Review Applied. In it, they present measurements of the capacitive coupling …
January 6, 2020
WQI Director wins WARF Innovation Award
WQI Director and professor of physics, Mark Saffman, won a 2019 WARF Innovation Award. Saffman has developed simplified optical hardware for quantum computing. His technology, recently licensed to ColdQuanta Inc., improves an apparatus for particle …
November 6, 2019
Shimon Kolkowitz earns 2019 Packard Fellowship
Shimon Kolkowitz, a University of Wisconsin–Madison assistant professor of physics, has been selected as one of 22 members of the 2019 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. The fellowship, awarded to early-career scientists from …
October 15, 2019
Chicago Quantum Summit to gather international experts
Top experts in quantum technology from around the globe — including experts from the Wisconsin Quantum Institute — will gather at the University of Chicago on Oct. 25 to discuss the future of quantum information …
October 10, 2019
Response of a quantum disordered spin system to a local periodic drive
A new publication from the Vavilov group, from A. Barış Özgüler, Canran Xu, is on arXiv! Read the full paper on the arXiv site.
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