Happy #WorldQuantumDay!

(February 16, 2023) The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has released two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) related to STEM education, which could be leveraged by the quantum community.

(December 19, 2022) Last Wednesday, the Department of Energy announced $4.6 Million in awards for the Advanced Scientific Computing Research – Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (ASCR-RENEW) program, whose goal is to increase participation of underrepresented groups in the quantum computing and networking workforce and to increase participation of underrepresented institutions in quantum computing and networking workforce training. This pilot program is intended to leverage ASCR’s unique national laboratory infrastructure and user facilities to provide training and research opportunities for students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty from underrepresented groups and at institutions that are currently underrepresented in the ASCR portfolio such as non-R1 institutions of higher education and minority serving institutions (MSIs), including Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

(September 30, 2022) The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC) intends to fill an Interdisciplinary Physical Scientist/Computer Scientist position in the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Computational Science Research and Partnerships Division located in Germantown, MD.

(May 26, 2022) The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program is organizing two QIS community networking workshops. These are designed to increase participation of underrepresented groups in the quantum computing and networking workforce, and to increase participation of underrepresented institutions in quantum computing and networking workforce training.

(May 09, 2022) The Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) Qubit Collaboratory (LQC) will be hosting its 2nd Summer of Quantum (SoQ) Short Course. This course is a free 2-week introduction to quantum computing from algorithms to physical implementations for rising undergraduate seniors thru 2nd year graduate students interested in quantum devices and quantum information science. The course is being offered virtually July 25 – August 5, 2022; 12:30-4:30pm EST and the application deadline is June 3, 2022. Click here to learn more and apply.