Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS)
Latest QuICS News
Upcoming Visitors
Alper Çakan |Carnegie Mellon University|Apr 10, 2026 to Apr 14, 2026
Felix Binder|Trinity College Dublin|Apr 15, 2026 to Apr 18, 2026
Chinmay Nirkhe|University of Washington|Apr 28, 2026 to May 03, 2026
Upcoming Events
- April 13, 2026 2:00 pmQuICS Special Seminar
Public-Key Quantum Fire and Key-Fire From Classical Oracles
Alper Çakan (Carnegie Mellon University)
- April 15, 2026 11:00 amQuICS seminar
Memory as a resource for sampling and parameter estimation
Felix Binder(Trinity College Dublin)
- April 17, 2026 12:00 pmFriday Quantum Seminar
Entanglement growth in random linear optical networks
Laura Shou(UMD, Physics Department)
Our Mission
The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) is a partnership between the University of Maryland (UMD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Located at the University of Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C., the center advances research and education in quantum computer science and quantum information theory.
Key Research Areas
News
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Developing a Fault Tolerant Quantum Computer
December 3, 2025![Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stands at podium in front of Microsoft and Capital of Quantum sign]()
UMD to Host Microsoft Quantum Research Center in Discovery District
September 18, 2025![A pencil concept sketch of a large round quantum thermodynamics machine.]()
Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub Secures Funding for Three More Years
September 11, 2025
We, as theorists, try to come up with ideas and proposals that not only are interesting from the perspective of applications but also from the perspective of giving experimentalists the motivation to go to the next level and push to add more capabilities to the hardware.
Latest Publications
Compressed Permutation Oracles
, , To appear in Proceedings of the 58th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2026), (2026)Laplace transform based quantum eigenvalue transformation via linear combination of Hamiltonian simulation
, , SIAM Journal on Computing, 55, (2026)Quantum algorithm for linear non-unitary dynamics with near-optimal dependence on all parameters
, , Communications in Mathematical Physics, 407, 19, (2026)