24th Annual SQuInT Workshop
December 5, 2022 - Talullah Begaye
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— For the first time since 2020, the Southwest Quantum Information & Technology (SQuInT) annual workshop was able to meet in person at Berkeley, California. The three-day event, which was held from October 20 - 22, was co-hosted by the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (CIQC) led by UC Berkeley.
The workshop brought around 288 researchers to Berkeley, from various universities, national laboratories, and industrial companies across the country and the world. Out of those in attendance, 25 were UNM graduate students.
Throughout the schedule of events, UNM had a substantial amount of representations. Out of the 45 talks during the session, two were headed by UNM-affiliated researchers. One was Research Professor Pablo Poggi and the other was graduate student Austin Daniel. The poster session also included 13 posters presented by UNM researchers and student researchers out of the 99 total posters.
SQuInT is a network of node institutions dedicated to facilitate “the exchange of resources – intellectual and human”. With 28 partner research laboratories and universities, centers, and institutes, SQuInT has helped advance the field of QIS by strengthening connections between researchers and sharing advancements within the field. The annual workshop is the network’s main activity, and is held every Fall. This year’s workshop was partially supported by the National Science Foundation through Focus Research Hubs in Theoretical Physics (FRHTP) and Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Quantum Systems through Entangled Science and Engineering (QLCI Q-SEnSE).
UNM will host the workshop next Fall.
