News

Reimagining Cryptography in a Post-Quantum World

April 3, 2023

QuICS Fellow Jonathan Katz leads a $1M NSF award that supports forward-looking efforts in research, education.

Book Authored by QuICS Fellow Receives PROSE Award

February 25, 2023

Nicole Yunger Halpern’s "Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow" took top honors in the popular science and mathematics category.

Wu Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

February 15, 2023

The two-year, $75,000 fellowships are awarded annually to early-career researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

Recent QuICS Alumnus Embraced Community and Service at UMD

February 8, 2023

For recent physics graduate Andrew Guo (Ph.D. ’22), a sense of community has been an important part of his physics career—even in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

QuICS Contributes Half a Dozen Papers to Top Quantum Information Conference

February 6, 2023

QuICS Fellows, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and alumni contributed to the research selected for talks, and their work will be featured alongside more than 100 other accepted talks.

Hicks Is Named ACM Fellow

February 2, 2023

The prestigious award recognizes the top 1% of Association for Computing Machinery members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology.

Applied Math Led Hartree Fellow to Quantum Computing Research

November 30, 2022

Dong An is using his background in applied mathematics to design better quantum algorithms.

Gorshkov Elected Optica Fellow

November 10, 2022

He was honored for his research on large, interacting quantum systems, which has practical applications for quantum computers, quantum networks and quantum sensing technologies.

Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub Launches with $2M Grant

September 30, 2022

The hub will bring together researchers from several universities to galvanize a field that is central to understanding our universe and to developing robust quantum technologies.

Diving Into UMD’s Quantum Community

September 12, 2022

Undergraduate physics major Jade LeSchack (right in photo) works closely with QuICS Fellow Nicole Yunger Halpern (center) and others at UMD.

Quantum-Safe Algorithms Face Off in NIST Cryptography Showdown

August 23, 2022

QuICS co-director Andrew Childs participates in a podcast highlighting quantum-proof online security algorithms.

QuICS Graduate Student Receives DOE Fellowship

May 18, 2022

Elizabeth Bennewitz is one of 33 recipients to receive the award in 2022—the largest number of students this program has ever selected in a year.

QuICS Grad Student Wins UMD Three-Minute Thesis Competition

April 15, 2022

Jacob Bringewatt, a fourth-year doctoral student in physics advised by QuICS Fellow Alexey Gorshkov, delivers his presentation in the campus-wide final of the UMD 3MT competition.

QuICS Graduate Student Wins Ford Foundation Fellowship

April 11, 2022

Anthony Munson, a second-year doctoral student in physics, is one of 77 students to receive a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in 2022.

QuICS Graduate Student Wins QIP Quantum Chess Tournament

March 13, 2022

Daochen Wang, a fourth-year doctoral student advised by Andrew Childs and Carl Miller, advanced through five elimination rounds to take the top prize.