Congratulations to QMC faculty member Alicia Kollár on her NSF CAREER Award for a proposal aimed at developing a new window into the physics of particles interacting inside of materials. Way to go Alicia!   https://jqi.umd.edu/news/kollar-receives-national-science-foundation-career-award

QMC Engineer Doug Bensen has been awarded the Dean's Outstanding Employee Award for his dedication and effort to assist all manner of technical challenges in our center and other parts of the physics department. Congrats Doug - well deserved!! You can read an excellent story about Doug here.

A new report by CIFAR overviews quantum technology R&D strategies and initiatives in a selection of countries with comprehensive policy measures. The report overviews the three primary areas of quantum technologies, then highlights the policy measures taken by different countries to support quantum R&D. Download the full report here.

The team of QMC faculty member Vlad Manucharyan have reported a record coherence time for their fluxonium qubit, achieving an average single-qubit gate fidelity above 0.9999, surpassing that of any other solid-state quantum system. Combined with recent demonstrations of two-qubit gates on fluxoniums, this result paves the way for the next generation of quantum processors. See preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08578