Upcoming events.
Interview with David Awschalom
QuSTEAM’s Ray Samuel hosts an interview with David Awschalom, Director of Q-NEXT, Aergonne NL’s QIS Research Center
Interview with Andrew Houck
QuSTEAM’s Ray Samuel hosts an interview with Brookhaven NL QIS Research Center Director Andrew Houck
Meeting of US States’ Broadband Leaders: Advanced Regional Networking in Support of Research and Education
State and regional broadband network organizations serving governments and universities/colleges are key partners as research expands on quantum communications infrastructure.
APS March: Accelerating Undergraduate QISE Education and Research by Economy of Scale: QuSTEAM Nonprofit
Bennett Brown, QuSTEAM Executive Director
Accelerating Undergraduate QISE Education and Research by Economy of Scale: QuSTEAM Nonprofit
An NSF Convergence Accelerator project QuSTEAM engaged an interdiscplinary team across 20 institutions led by Ohio State, including UChicago, Michigan, Michigan State, a dozen HBCUs led by NC A&T, and several community colleges. The team developed and piloted four courses toward a quantum information minor. Materials used backward design (explicitly stated goals with well-aligned and frequent assessment of student understanding), culturally relevant pedagogy (using social prompts to draw on student expertise), flipped instruction, and project-based learning. A crowdsourcing platform was developed to provide staged reviews for pedagogy and subject matter. A classroom-driven variant of the qBraid platform was developed to access a variety of quantum devices. Industry and national lab input led to new project-based modules addressing topics such as cold matter, dyanmical decoupling, and pulse sequence optimization.
The effort revealed supports required at diverse insitutions to stand up novel quantum courses and programs. We describe a nonprofit model for collaboration to offer customized support, including course modules supporting evidence-based teaching.
https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR24/Session/Q61.1
APS March: Broadening Participation - How to Move the Needle
Raymond Samuel, North Carolina A&T State University
Going from here to there - Improving HBCUs capacity to produce more African American STEM PhDs
Raymond Samuel is a Professor in the Department of Biology at North Carolina A&T State University (NC A&T). He is the PI of the NC A&T ExpandQISE Track 2: NC A&T QISE Research Workforce Programs, which aims the increase the engagement of faculty and students in the QISE ecosystem. He is actively involved in the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center and serves as the PI of a subaward from the NSF Convergence Accelerator QuSTEAM, who is developing QISE course for diverse undergraduate institutions. He is actively involved in the DOE's Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, including serving as Moderator for the Quantum Thursdays Seminar Series. He has expertise in effective strategies to enhance the diversity of STEM research workforce, particularly in biomedical sciences, materials science, and QISE.
https://march.aps.org/events/broadening-participation
Qû’23 QuSTEAM Summer Summit and Workshops
When: July 10, 2023, 8:30 am CT – July 12, 2023, 12:00 pm CT
Where: Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source Conference Facility (Building 401, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S Cass Ave, Lemont, IL 60439)
Description: The Qû’23 QuSTEAM Summer Summit and Workshops offers workshop topics from Campus-to-Company in QIS to Active Learning in QISE Instruction. This conference aims to serve existing QuSTEAM team members as well as the wider community of faculty and industry leaders engaging undergraduates in QISE education and research. Faculty in adjacent disciplines can build QISE expertise, while experienced QISE researchers and educators can confer, share expertise of a broadening community, and build collaboration with industry and across campuses. We aim to provide access to the best centers of networking in the worlds of QISE research, STEM education, and inspiring initiatives driven by justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).
All QuSTEAM faculty, partners, and affiliates are welcome to attend. Faculty from additional institutions are also welcome and invited, provided they intend to teach quantum information science and engineering content at their institution in the next year.
Northeastern Illinois University's Meet a Quantum Expert
Students, faculty, and affiliates from Northeastern Illinois University were invited to meet QuSTEAM’s Director of Innovation, Russell Ceballos, to learn from a ‘Quantum Expert’. Russell Ceballos spoke about the QuSTEAM curriculum, quantum opportunities, and QIS efforts in the Chicago region.
Quantum Technology Minor Educator Workshop
QuSTEAM's Director of Innovation, Russell Ceballos, has been invited to participate in an upcoming SandboxAQ + NYU Tandon Educator Workshop. The workshop, scheduled to take place on March 24-25, 2023, will be led by Marianna Bonanome, Head of Education Outreach, and Kayla Quinnies, Residency Program Manager of SandboxAQ. One of the primary objectives of the workshop is to design an undergraduate Quantum Technology Minor program for students at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
QuSTEAM at APS March Meeting
Location: Reno Room (2nd floor of Harrah’s), 3475 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89109
QuSTEAM will be presenting information about our initiative at the 2023 APS March Meeting in the Chicago Quantum Exchange community space. Please join us in the Reno Room on the second floor of Harrah’s, from 7:30 am – 3:00 pm on Tuesday, March 7. Caesars Forum Convention Center, where the APS March Meeting is taking place, is connected directly to Harrah's Las Vegas through the Forum Sky Bridge and the LINQ Monorail Station.
Workshop on Quantum Education for Quantum Workforce Development
This workshop, hosted by the University of Florida, intends to explore ideas and approaches to teaching at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Russell Ceballos will be highlighting the QuSTEAM Initiative’s approach to creating equitable and scalable undergraduate quantum curriculum that spans science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Learn more
Faculty/Partner Workshop
Ray Samuel from North Carolina A&T hosted a faculty development workshop in December 2022 in Greensboro, NC. This workshop offered faculty networking opportunities with the quantum education community, and sessions on how to build quantum courses. These sessions were led by industry and academic professionals from QuEra Computing, Inc., Xanadu, IBM, PASQAL, Amazon Web Services, Duke, qBraid, and more. Ray Samuel will also be offering a series of four courses for a group of faculty at institutions around Greensboro. Stay tuned for more information about upcoming workshops.
QuSTEAM: Workshop on Quantum Computing
QuSTEAM hosted a hybrid Workshop of Quantum Computing at the 2022 ACS Meeting.
NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo: Session 5
Business Plan for Scaling Hands-on Quantum Information Courses Nationally
We describe QuSTEAM’s business plan for growing a network of academic institutions and businesses to support a national scale up of undergraduate education in quantum information. We describe how the QuSTEAM laboratory course builds an experimentalist’s skills using relatively inexpensive equipment while networking across campuses and with industry to ensure students at all campuses have access to quick and clear results from prefabricated QISE equipment.
NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo 2022: Session 4
Building Collaborative Skills and Quantum Competence Across Four Undergraduate Courses in Quantum Information
We describe the development and pilot of QuSTEAM’s four-course sequence, emphasizing the middle two courses and the steady development of tools and teamwork across the four courses, connecting campuses to industry.
NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo 2022: Session 3
QuSTEAM: Convergent Undergraduate Education in Quantum Information
We describe how our team of 70+ instructors- including education researchers and culturally responsive curriculum design specialists- is developing, piloting, and improving four courses for a quantum information minor. We collaborate across 25 undergraduate institutions, including 15 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), with industry specialists across 30 companies to build a sustainable organization networking academic institutions and industry to scale Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) across institutions of all resource levels.
NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo: Session 2
Solving the Quantum Workforce Bottleneck through Strategies Known to Increase Equity and Diversity
We describe the development and pilot of QuSTEAM’s introductory course in quantum information science and engineering, focusing on efforts to expand and diversify the STEM workforce by emphasizing evidence-based practices that benefit all students: backward course design, active learning, universal design for learning, and culturally responsive pedagogy. By design, the intro course emphasizes big concepts, societal impacts, with applications preceding mathematical treatment.
NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo: Session 1
QuSTEAM: Convergent Undergraduate Education in Quantum Information
We describe how our team of 70+ instructors (including education researchers and culturally responsive curriculum design specialists) is developing, piloting, and improving four courses for a quantum information minor. We collaborate across 25 undergraduate institutions, including 15 HBCUs, with industry specialists across 30 companies to build a sustainable organization networking academic institutions and industry to scale Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) across institutions of all resource levels.