Key takeaways
- The Center for Quantum Technologies is an NSF-funded multi-site effort spanning Purdue, Indiana University and Notre Dame, pooling faculty and equipment instead of duplicating them at each campus
- Industry sponsors join the center mainly to get early access to trained graduate students and to steer research toward problems they actually face
- The center deliberately mixes physicists, computer scientists and engineers so that hardware advances and software or algorithm work stay connected rather than developing in isolation
- Bringing together three schools with different existing strengths lets the center cover more of the quantum stack, from device fabrication to system architecture, than any single university could alone
Summary
Prof. Peter Kogge from Notre Dame, Prof. Geraldo Ortiz from Indiana University and Dr. David Stewart, managing director of the Purdue quantum science and engineering institute, are interviewed by Yuval Boger. They talk about the new Center for Quantum Technologies, a multi-site NSF-funded research center, which commercial sponsors are participating in the center and what they expect to get from it, the diverse faculty and students that participate in quantum research, and much more.
Get the full transcript on The Quantum Computing Report