2020 Chicago Quantum Summit: Day 2
11:00 am – Strengthening Quantum Research at Speed and Scale
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science Foundation
11:30 am – Quantum Information Science at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Grace Metcalfe, Program Officer, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
12:00 pm – Federal Centers and Institutes Panel
The Quantum Systems Accelerator
Irfan Siddiqi, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley; Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Director, DOE QIS Quantum Systems Accelerator, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
C2QA: Building the Bridge to the Post-NISQ Era
Steven Girvin, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University; Director, DOE QIS Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage, Brookhaven National Laboratory
TBD
David Awschalom, Liew Family Professor and Deputy Dean, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago; Director, Chicago Quantum Exchange; and Director, DOE QIS Q-NEXT, Argonne National Laboratory
Moderated Q&A
Moderator: Charles Tahan, Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science and Director, National Quantum Coordination Office, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
1:00 pm – Fireside Chat: The Economic Impact of Quantum Research
1:30 pm – Daytime Program Concludes
5:00 pm – Chicago Quantum Summit 2020 Public Event
Quantum Computing: Fact v. Fiction
Keynote Talk
Scott Aaronson, David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin; Founding Director, Quantum Information Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Fireside Chat
Scott Aaronson, David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin; Founding Director, Quantum Information Center, The University of Texas at Austin
David Awschalom, Liew Family Professor and Deputy Dean, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago; Director, Chicago Quantum Exchange; and Director, DOE QIS Q-NEXT, Argonne National Laboratory
Moderator
Sophia Chen, Science Journalist