The PQI Fellowships are to be “awarded to students of exceptional ability and promise” who are pursuing a Ph.D. in Quantum Science or Engineering. Eligible graduate students will be selected from the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, the Swanson School of Engineering, and the School of Computing and Information. The numbers of Fellowships awarded to each School will be determined by the funding provided by the respective Schools. The primary consideration in ranking nominees is the nominee’s promise of achieving scholarly distinction in their field. All nominees must be within the nominating program’s guaranteed years of funding during the 2022-2023 academic year. All application materials are due by 5:00 PM on Friday, November 18, 2022. Continue reading
Congratulations to our PQI 2022 Best Poster Award Winners! The poster session took place on September 13, 2022 at our PQI 2022 Event at the University Club Pittsburgh. The session was a large success thanks to the many students from a number of universities who participated by presenting their research.
Poster Winners: Siddarth Achar, Paige Moncure, Nazifa Tabassum, Mihir Khanna, Mohammad Babar. Continue reading
The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute organized an invitation-only Workshop on Cybersecurity of Quantum Computing supported by the National Science Foundation and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. (See the announcement.). The workshop explored questions related to hardware and software security, protecting intellectual property, and detecting and preventing certain malicious algorithms from being run on quantum computers.Continue reading
The annual PQI signature event took place on September 13-15, 2022 and covered a wide range of topics in quantum science and engineering by featuring prominent invited keynote lecturers and highlighting the current research of PQI members. All talks were colloquium-style and accessible to a broad audience. Thank you to everyone who attended, and we look forward to next year's event! Watch our public lectures and industry collaboration panel! Continue reading
Last month, the founding director of PQI, Jeremy Levy, stepped down from the position. PQI was founded in 2012 with the mission “to help unify and promote quantum science and engineering in Pittsburgh,” and Jeremy and PQI succeeded in doing exactly that.
This month, we are excited to announce that Adam Leibovich will serve as the new Director for a three-year term (renewable).
His long experience leading and growing essential parts of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, coupled with his extensive and successful research program, and his...Continue reading
Growing up in Patna, India, I imagined that there would be a better representation of women in physics in the United States. But after arriving at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to begin my graduate studies in 1988, I was sorely disappointed to learn that I was the only woman in a class of 36 PhD students.
The situation has improved marginally since then. In 2019, for example, women received 20% of both undergraduate and PhD degrees in physics in the . . .
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have successfully developed and patented a new modular-based system for connecting together qubits — a unit of measurement and a building block behind quantum computing.
In modern computing, computers use bits of information to solve problems, amid a myriad of other applications that computers can do. The bits that make up modern computers consist of ones and zeros, a signal that translates to being either on and off.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a new faculty member in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. This appointment, which is subject to budgetary approval, will be at the Assistant Professor level and will begin with the Fall Term of 2023, or thereafter. More information here.
A collaborative publication involving the labs of Prof. Peng Liu in the Department of Chemistry and Prof. Yang Yang from the University of California Santa Barbara was featured on the cover of a recent issue the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The joint computational and experimental study investigated the mechanism of a C(sp3)-H functionalization reaction carried out by an engineered metalloenzyme. In the course of the team’s work, they established exactly how the enzyme active site dictates the stereochemical outcome of the radical process. Collectively, the results provide important new insights into...
Sometimes, in creating an alloy out of multiple metals, defects and structural instability can occur in the material. Now, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are harnessing those imperfections to make the material stronger while retaining its flexibility.
The investigators are designing metastable alloys that can overcome the well-known trade off between strength and ductility, revealing a strategy that can create alloys suited to a broad range of applications. . .
