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Roy T. Eddleman
Quantum Innovation Fund

Events sponsored by the Eddleman Fund

Events sponsored by the Eddleman Quantum Innovation fund include: QIP 2022 Tutorials as part of the March conference; meetings of the Eddleman Graduate Fellows and Science Meetings held at Chateau Balleroy in Normandy, France
Meetings of the Eddleman Graduate Fellows include members from Caltech, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara, recent meetings include:
  • Caltech Eddleman Graduate Fellows Meeting, February 8, 2022
  • UC Irvine EQI Graduate Council Meeting, November - December 2020

This fellowship reaches across Caltech's academic divisions in that candidates are nominated by faculty in Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, or Engineering and Applied Sciences.

To meet Caltech's fellows and to learn more, please visit the Graduate Fellows page

QIP2022 Conference Tutorials In addition to participating in the QIP 2022 conference March 7-11, participants had the option to enroll in additional tutorial sessions on March 5-6 sponsored by the Roy T. Eddleman Quantum Innovation Fund.

The tutorials featured four lecturers speaking on cutting-edge topics:

  • The Randomized Measurement Toolbox - Richard Keung, Assistant Professor, Johannes Kepler University Austria
  • From One-shot to Asymptotic Quantum Information Theory - Marco Tomamichel, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
  • Quantum Machine Learning - Mária Kieferová, Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography – Chris Peikert, Professor, University of Michigan

Support provided by the Eddleman Quantum Innovation Fund enabled filming of the tutorial sessions and they are available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJdfO2-cXXJSjjVcuaJWObE3G

The Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) is the premier annual meeting for theoretical quantum information research. Since the first meeting in Aarhus, Denmark in 1998, the conference has featured breakthroughs by leaders in the disciplines of computing, cryptography, information theory, mathematics, and physics. The scientific objective of the series is to gather the theoretical quantum information community to present and discuss the latest groundbreaking work in the field.

Science Meetings held at Chateau Balleroy

"Our Quantum Future" was the theme of the Caltech Chateau Balleroy Science meeting held in May 2022. 10 Caltech faculty members and 9 Caltech students attended. Each faculty/student pair articulated a vision of a great advance in quantum science that might be possible in the years ahead, followed by animated discussion. The spectacular venue provided great opportunities for informal interactions and wide-ranging discussions.

The participating scientists were drawn from Caltech's departments of physics, applied physics, materials science, chemistry, and computer science. Among the topics discussed were: using quantum machines to enhance metrology, molecular qubits as sensors, computing spin coherence times from first principles, relating quantum chaos to thermalization, exploiting topological principles to build exotic quantum devices, building quantum networks, detecting quantum fluctuations of spacetime, developing more powerful computational methods for simulating quantum materials, synthesizing tunable quantum materials, and scaling up Rydberg atom tweezer arrays for quantum computing and simulation.