Key takeaways
- The Center for Quantum Technologies is an NSF-funded hub spanning Notre Dame, Indiana University and Purdue, pooling faculty and equipment instead of each school building its own separate program.
- Commercial sponsors join the center expecting early access to trained students and applied research outcomes, not just a line item for basic science funding.
- The center deliberately draws faculty and students from a wide range of departments and backgrounds, treating quantum research as a cross-disciplinary effort rather than a physics-only specialty.
- Running a multi-site center raises practical coordination questions, from how credit and resources are split across three universities to how sponsors interact with researchers at different campuses.
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