Quantum
- Elevate Quantum, of which ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder is a key partner, announced today that it has received a Tech Hub Phase 2 implementation award from the Department of Commerce, unlocking more than $127 million in new federal and state funding. The award is expected to drive more than $2 billion in additional private capital and cement the Mountain West as a global leader for quantum innovation.
- U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet visited campus Oct. 20, and the trip to campus became an unexpected cause for celebration about Colorado’s place in the nation’s burgeoning quantum ecosystem.
- Leaders from across the ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder campus and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) gathered last week to celebrate the official launch of the Quantum Engineering Initiative Lab space within the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
- A multi-university research team, including engineers and physicists from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder, will build technology and tools to improve measurement of important climate factors by observing atoms in outer space.
- Professor Scott Diddams has been selected for the 2023 C.E.K. Mees Medal from Optica (formerly OSA) for his pioneering innovations leading to the wide-ranging application of optical frequency combs to ultrafast lasers, optical clocks, spectroscopy, microwave synthesis, and astronomy.
- Researchers from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be better able to coordinate their efforts with the opening of the Quantum Engineering Initiative (QEI) Collaboration Lab on Sept. 26.
- A number of researchers at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder are celebrating the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act by Congress.
- The Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) facility and the Materials Instrumentation and Multimodal Imaging Core (MIMIC) facility will host a joint virtual webinar from noon to 2 p.m. on Nov. 18 via Zoom.
- A team of physicists at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder has solved the mystery behind a perplexing phenomenon in the nano realm: why some ultra-small heat sources cool down faster if you pack them closer together. The findings, which will publish this week in the
- Electrical engineering researchers at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder have designed one of the most precise stopwatches yet — one that can count single photons. The group published its results this week in the journal Optica.