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PQI 2025

PQI2025 AdThis year is the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, and PQI and the Carnegie Science Center are holding a joint in-person event. Our tentative schedule is below! 

 

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PQI members should check their newsletter for a code to register for free!

Public Lectures:

William Phillips Profile
The Past, Present, and Future of Quantum Science and Technology

William D. Phillips, University of Maryland
4/9/2025 7:30pm
Science Stage

Abstract: One hundred years ago, people like Werner Heisenberg, Irwin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, and others introduced a new way of thinking about the way the physical world works: quantum mechanics. This year, we celebrate IYQ, the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The new science invented 100 years ago led to revolutionary new technologies, including semiconductor electronics, which changed the lives of almost everyone on Earth. Today, using some of the strangest aspects of quantum mechanics, features that have, since the birth of quantum mechanics, challenged our very notions of reality, we are at the beginning of a second quantum revolution that promises as-yet-undreamed-of wonders.

William Phillips is a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of physics. In 1997 he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physics "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light."
Travis Humble profile
Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
4/10/2025 11:30am
Point View Hall

Travis Humble is director of the Quantum Science Center, a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and director of the lab’s Quantum Computing Institute.

External Speakers:

  • Giacomo Nannicini, University of Southern California
  • Tamas Terlaky, Lehigh University
  • Ruslan Shaydulin, JPMorgan
  • Jie Shan, Cornell University
  • Long Ju, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Andrew Jordan, Chapman University
  • James Thompson, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Benjamin Bloom, Atom Computing
  • Shengwang Du, Purdue University

PQI Best Poster Awards

PQI will honor the three best posters presented by current CMU, Duquesne, and Pitt graduate students at the event! 

Students interested in participating in the poster session must indicate that on their registration and provide a tentative title for their poster. PQI will provide easels and foam boards, students are responsible for printing their own posters at 36x48 in. Create your poster now using the PQI Template!

Transportation to the Carnegie Science Center:

  1. PQI is providing a bus from the Mellon Institute to the Carnegie Science Center through our registration form for up to 50 registrants, reserve your slot by registering now! 
  2. PQI is providing free parking for PQI 2025 registrants at the Carnegie Science Center. 
  3. Pittsburgh Regional Transit provides routes from Oakland (Pitt & CMU) to the North Shore (Carnegie Science Center), for more information visit: TrueTime | Real-Time Map.

Hotels Near the Carnegie Science Center:

  • Hyatt Place Pittsburgh - North Shore (260 North Shore Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15212)
  • Residence Inn Pittsburgh North Shore (574 West General Robinson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212)
  • Spring Hill Suites Pittsburgh North Shore (223 Federal Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212)

Restaurants Near the Carnegie Science Center:

  • The Foundry Table & Tap (381 North Shore Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15212)
  • Soho (203 Federal St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212)
  • North Shore Tavern (120 Federal St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212)
  • Burgatory (342 N Shore Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15212)

Schedule