Workshop on Quantum Engineering Infrastructure (WQEI)

April 13th-15th, 2021

The Global Quantum Leap program hosted the first Workshop of Quantum Engineering Infrastructure (WQEI2) virtually from April 13-15, 2021. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the event brought together more than 400 participants from universities, national labs, government, and industry to discuss the future needs of quantum fabrication infrastructure. Over three days, the workshop featured keynote talks, panel discussions, and breakout sessions focused on strengthening national capabilities in materials, fabrication and characterization for quantum technologies.

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Workshop Agenda

  1. Welcome & Opening Remarks

    • Chair/Moderator: Steven Koester, University of Minnesota

    • Speakers: Dawn Tilbury (NSF), Lawrence Goldberg (NSF), Alex Cronin (NQCO)

  2. NNCI Program & Centers Overview

    • Overview: Oliver Brand (Georgia Tech), Saikat Guha (University of Arizona, NSF Center for Quantum Networks), Ania Bleszynski Jayich (UCSB, NSF Quantum Foundry), David Dean (ORNL, DOE Quantum Science Center)

  3. Superconducting Qubits

    • Chair/Moderator: Andrew Cleland, University of Chicago

    • Overview: David Schuster (University of Chicago), Will Oliver (MIT Lincoln Laboratories)

    • Panelists: Machiel Blok (University of Rochester), John Martinis (UC Santa Barbara), Peter McMahon (Cornell), Anthony Megrant (Google), Britton Plourde (Syracuse University), Robert Schoelkopf (Yale University), Irfan Siddiqi (UC Berkeley), Christy Tyberg (IBM)

  4. Trapped Ions

    • Chair/Moderator: David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford University

    • Overview: Kenneth Brown (Duke University), Susan Clark (Sandia National Laboratories)

    • Panelists: Joe Britton (University of Maryland), John Chiaverini (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Hartmut Häffner (UC Berkeley), Patty Lee (Honeywell Quantum Solutions), Christopher Monroe (Duke University), Christian Ospelkaus (Hannover University), Daniel Slichter (NIST)

  5. Color Centers & Optics

    • Chair/Moderator: Mo Li, University of Washington

    • Overview: Jelena Vučković (Stanford University), Kai-Mei Fu (University of Washington), Dirk Englund (MIT), Marko Lončar (Harvard University)

    • Panelists: Hannes Bernien (University of Chicago), Nathalie de Leon (Princeton University), David Fuchs (Cornell University), Arka Majumdar (University of Washington), Galan Moody (UC Santa Barbara), Shayan Mookherjea (UC San Diego)

  6. Topological Qubits

    • Chair/Moderator: Vlad Pribiag, University of Minnesota

    • Overview: Chris Palmstrøm (UC Santa Barbara), Amir Yacoby (Harvard University)

    • Panelists: Sergey Frolov (University of Pittsburgh), Angela Kou (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Kin-Fai Mak (Cornell University), Javad Shabani (NYU)

  7. Spin Qubits

    • Chair/Moderator: Steven Koester, University of Minnesota

    • Overview: Mark Eriksson (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Jason Petta (Princeton University)

    • Panelists: Mark Friesen (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Hongwen Jiang (UCLA), Ryan Jock (Sandia National Laboratory), Douglas Natelson (Rice University), John Nichol (University of Rochester)

  8. Closing Remarks

    • Chair/Moderator: Steven Koester, University of Minnesota