Spring 2023

Spring 2023 marked the inaugural launch of the “Quantum+Chips” program—a dynamic two-week event packed with lectures, demonstrations, lab tours, and site visits. Participants toured industry leaders Seagate and 3M, attended computer lab sessions led by Professor Tony Low and his team, and heard from industry experts at Skywater Technology and Quantinuum. The program also offered hands-on experiences through demonstrations and tours of Keller Hall’s clean room, the Minnesota Nano Center, and the Characterization Facility.

Organizing Committee 2023

Tony Low, U Minnesota (tlow@umn.edu)

Steve Koester, U Minnesota (skoester@umn.edu)

Young Duck Kim, Kyung Hee U (ydk@khu.ac.kr)

Tuesday, 3rd Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-12:00 Electron discovery, wave particle duality (PAN 110)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
14:00-15:00 Minnesota Nano Center tour (PAN)
15:00-16:00 Keller cleanroom tour (Keller Hall)

Wednesday, 4th Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-10:30 Sarah Dohm: Graduate school at UMN (PAN 110)
10:30-12:00 Electron statistics and distribution (PAN 110)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
14:00-15:00 Molecular beam epitaxy tour (Keller Hall)
15:00-16:00 Flexible electronics tour (Keller Hall)

Thursday, 5th Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-12:00 Quantum mechanics, electron wavefunction (PAN 110)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
14:00-16:00 Graphene & 2D materials demo (Keller) 

Friday, 6th Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-13:00 Seagate Lab tour (Bloomington)
13:00-15:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
15:00-17:00 Duarte Sousa: Electron in a crystal (PAN 110)

Saturday, 7th Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-12:00 Electron spin, coherence, entanglement (PAN 110)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
14:00-15:00 High resolution electron microscopy center (UMN)
15:00-16:00 Characterization facility (UMN)

Monday, 9th Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-12:00 Device electrostatics, quantum capacitance (PAN 110)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
14:00-18:00 3M tour (Saint Paul)

Tuesday, 10th Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-12:00 Quantum transport (PAN 110)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
14:00-17:00 Computer Lab: Electronic structure (Keller)

Wednesday, 11th Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-11:00 Joe Kinney, Skywater, Transistor technology (PAN 110)
11:00-12:00 Ben Pearce, Skywater, Fabrication technology (PAN 110)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
14:00-17:00 Computer Lab: Quantum capacitance (Keller)

Thursday, 12th Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-12:00 Duarte Sousa, Spintronics (PAN 110)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
14:00-17:00 Computer Lab: Stern Gerlach experiment (Keller)

Friday, 13th Jan
09:00-10:00 Breakfast (PAN 110)
10:00-12:00 Joe Davies, Quantum computing (PAN 110)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (PAN 130)
14:00-17:00 Computer Lab: Quantum gates (Keller)