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University of Chicago
Eckhardt Research Center (ERC)—Room 161
5640 South Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Day 1 – Thursday, November 8
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| Time | Event | Speakers | Concurrent Lab Tours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:45–9:30 AM | Registration & Breakfast | ||
| 9:30–9:35 AM | Opening Remarks | David Awschalom, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago; Senior Scientist, Argonne; Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange | |
| 9:35–9:45 AM | Program Welcome | Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University of Chicago | |
| 9:45–10:15 AM | Keynote | Dario Gil, COO, IBM Research and VP, AI and Quantum, IBM Research | |
| 10:15–10:45 AM | Keynote | France Cordova, NSF Director | |
| 10:45–11:00 AM | Break | ||
| 11:00–11:30 PM | Remarks | Congressman Dan Lipinski, 3rd District, Illinois | |
| 11:30 AM–12:00 PM | Keynote | Hartmut Neven, Engineering Director, Google Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab | |
| 12:00–12:30 PM | Keynote | Steve Binkley, Deputy Director, Office of Science (DOE) | |
| 12:30–1:30 PM | Lunch | 12:45 PM: Lab Tours | |
| 1:30–2:00 PM | Panel | Supratik Guha, Center for Nanoscale Materials Director and Senior Scientific Advisor to the Lab Director, Argonne; Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago; Joseph Lykken, Deputy Director and Chief Research Officer of Fermilab; David Awschalom, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago; Senior Scientist, Argonne; Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange; Dale Van Harlingen, the Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics and the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign | |
| 2:00–2:30 PM | Keynote | Carl Williams, Acting Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | |
| 2:30–3:00 PM | Keynote | Paul Lopata, Acting Assistant Director of Defense Research & Engineering for Quantum Information Science | |
| 3:00–3:30 PM | Remarks | Congressman Bill Foster, 11th District, Illinois | |
| 3:30–4:00 PM | Keynote | Jeff Henshaw, Group Program Manager for Microsoft’s Quantum Architecture and Computation Group (QuArC) | |
| 4:00–5:00 PM | Reception | CQE Member Research Poster Session | |
| 4:40–5:00 PM | Buses leave for Public Event |
The Standard Club
320 S Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604
Live streaming available here.
| Time | Event | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 5:30 PM | Doors open | |
| 6:00 PM | Lecture | Hartmut Neven, Google |
| 6:20 PM | Fireside Chat | Hartmut Neven, Google David Awschalom |
| 6:40 PM | Moderated Q&A | Martin Giles, MIT Technology Review |
| 7:00 PM | Event ends |
Day 2 – Friday, November 9
| Time | Event | QISENET Meeting |
|---|---|---|
| 8:15–9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00–9:15 AM | Overview | Evelyn Hu, Tarr-Coyne Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University |
| 9:15–10:15 AM | Keynote | Linda S. Sapochak, Division Director, Division of Materials Research, NSF |
| 10:15–10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30–11:30 AM | Student & Industry Panel | Lisa F. Edge, Sr. Program Manager Epitaxial Materials, IR Program Office, HRL Laboratories, LLC; Ben Lawrie, Staff Scientist, Quantum Information Science Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Ryan Babbush, Senior Research Scientist, Google Inc.; Barbara Jones, Research Division, IBM |
| 11:30 AM–12:30 PM | Student Poster Session | |
| 12:30 PM | Conference Concludes |