Quantum Research Pod
This Quantum Pod features a small number of junior and senior researchers in residence at the Institute. The pod convenes a series of programs and summer clusters, bringing together leading researchers and rising stars from around the world for the kind of intense, in-person, cross-disciplinary collaboration necessary to move our project forward. The Quantum Pod hosts a weekly colloquium series in the form of "an invitation to research in area X". This will help researchers in the field keep up with the dizzying flurry of new results, as well as draw a diverse group of researchers into the field. This research pod facilitates deep interactions between quantum computing and the rest of theoretical computer science and will help introduce and welcome the larger theoretical computer science community into quantum computing research issues.
The pod hosted a remarkable cohort of postdoctoral fellows, listed here, along with the institutions they are joined post-fellowship, as faculty or staff: Bill Fefferman (University of Chicago), Anurag Anshu (Harvard), Adam Bouland (Stanford), Andrea Coladangelo (University of Washington), Yosi Atiya (QEDMA), Di Fang (Duke), Jin-Peng Liu (Tsinghua), Makrand Sinha (UIUC), Qipeng Liu (UC San Diego), and Torin Stetina (IonQ).
Summer cluster on quantum computing
The Summer Cluster on Quantum Computing will bring together researchers from academia and industry to explore topics from quantum complexity theory and cryptography to quantum algorithms, benchmarking, error-correction and fault tolerance. The program will have a special focus on NISQ (Near-term Intermediate-Scale Quantum) computers and complexity-based evidence of quantum advantage. A major challenge in this direction is to define milestones for the next generation of quantum computers that are beyond the capabilities of classical computers and yet can be verified efficiently.