CQE Seminar: Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP)

Join us at 10 a.m. Central on Wednesday, September 11, for a virtual CQE seminar on the newly announced Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP). The event will feature short presentations by park leaders, including representatives from Intersect Illinois, PsiQuantum, and DARPA, followed by a roundtable science discussion. 

The IQMP will be a first-of-its-kind park for quantum scale-up, providing shared cryogenic facilities, equipment, and research labs for industry, government, academic institutions, and national labs. Housed on a 128-acre lakefront campus on Chicago’s South Side, the project will include an industrial scale cryo-plant and shared-use cryo-facility, supplier facilities, a quantum algorithm center, workforce development programs, and more. Tenants will include PsiQuantum and the Illinois-DARPA Quantum Proving Ground. 

If you are part of a CQE member or partner institution and are interested in attending, please email quantum@uchicago.edu.

Speakers:

• David Awschalom, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago; Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory; Director, Chicago Quantum Exchange
• Preeti Chalsani, SVP and Chief Quantum Officer, Intersect Illinois
• Harley T. Johnson, Founder Professor in Mechanical Science & Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Acting Director, Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park LLC
• Joe Altepeter, Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Josh Richman, Chief Revenue Officer, PsiQuantum
• Brian DeMarco, Professor of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics and Director of the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Kate Timmerman, CEO, Chicago Quantum Exchange (moderator)