Director's Message

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Steve Girvin

I hope that your summer is going well, and your research efforts are proving fruitful. I personally have enjoyed the opportunities the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) has afforded me to collaborate scientifically with colleagues at different institutions and from different disciplines. Through the Center, I have had my first chances to broaden my horizons by collaborating directly with both materials scientists and computer scientists. I hope that you also are finding new collaboration opportunities through the numerous seminars and working groups now meeting regularly. The remarkable list of publications you have produced in the past year is appended to this message. I encourage you to take a look at these papers to learn more about science activities and collaboration opportunities within the Center. If you would like to learn more about quantum algorithms, I particularly recommend the preprint, ‘A Grand Unification of Quantum Algorithms,’ by John M. Martyn, Zane M. Rossi, Andrew K. Tan, Isaac L. Chuang, arXiv:2105.02859.

Effective August 15, 2021, our Deputy Director, Andrew Houck, will be stepping into the role of C2QA director. We began work nearly three years ago preparing for the call for proposals, then developing the (955-page!) proposal, and finally standing up the Center operations over the past year. You, the staff at your institutions, and the staff at Brookhaven Lab have accomplished a huge amount in getting us launched, and I am very grateful. It truly has been a collaborative team effort. We are already beginning to see exciting interdisciplinary research advances and publications (listed at the end of this message) coming out of our collaborations, and I know we will see many more as the Center gets into full swing in Year-2 under Andrew’s able and energetic leadership. I will remain as an active researcher in the Center and look forward to continuing to collaborate with many of you on the science front. We expect to have further news about the appointment of a new deputy director in the near future.

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