Congratulations to Patrick Flanigan, a principal investigator at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), for being selected for the 2024 award. Flanigan’s project will explore how to significantly reduce the footprint of future photon-based quantum-computing and quantum-information systems, as well as enable the exploration of new physics that may emerge in the chip-scale system.
Acknowledging the inequities in previous technology nodes and supporting workforce developments, SPIE and IBM are working together to ensure the technologies of the future leverage the qualities and experiences of a diverse community. Quantum photonics and its related technologies will be at the forefront of technology advancements and the economies of the future. SPIE and IBM believe the impact of these technologies will be stronger with the inclusion of the ideas and work of the diverse student-bodies found at America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Together, IBM and SPIE are working to help create an open, diverse, and inclusive quantum future.
The IBM-HBCU Quantum Center and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, are soliciting proposals for the IBM-SPIE HBCU Faculty Accelerator Award in Quantum Optics and Photonics. This $100,000 award is used to promote research and education in quantum optics and photonics within IBM-HBCU Quantum Center member institutions, as well as provides support for students or postdoc researcher stipends, travel, conference registration, equipment, materials and supplies, and/or faculty summer salary.
