Registration is open for 2024 edition of Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland (QIDiS), taking place at Uptown Basel.

HackLife Topics: Quantum Computing, Digital Personalized Medicine, Hospital Systems, MedTech. 

The invite-only summit offers dozens of sessions available to watch via livestream.  

The QSE Junior Quantum Seminars will be returning soon! These seminars bring together junior researchers – master's students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers – to share their work with one another, and encourage scientific cross-fertilization and knowledge transfer between EPFL’s many groups focusing on quantum physics. We will notify our newsletter subscribers and advertise on our website and social media channels once the seminars have restarted in the coming weeks. 

These awards aim to attract and empower excellent female students who will conduct their master’s project in the research areas represented at the QSE Center. The awardee will receive 8,000 CHF paid to them directly. External applicants are eligible for up to an additional 2,000 CHF for travel expenses. Rolling deadline

XPRIZE Quantum Applications is a 3-year, $5M global competition designed to generate quantum computing (QC) algorithms that can be put into practice to help solve real-world challenges.XPRIZE Quantum Applications is made possible thanks to the generous support of title sponsor Google Quantum AI, with funding from Google.org, and presenting partner the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) Foundation. 

The Unitary Fund give $4k cash grants to quantum tech projects. Project could be open source quantum sofware, education materials and workshops, a new quantum sensor prototype, or much more. Please reach out to Nathan Shammah, who presented at the QSE Seminar Series. 

On August 28, QSE Center Directors Vincenzo Savona and Philippe Caroff participated in the "Possible Futures of Quantum Technologies" workshop of the Univeristy of Zurich's Digital Society Intiative. The goal of the workshop was to indentify possible scenarios and consequences of the devleopment of quantum technologies in different sub-fields, on different timescales, and from different perspectives. Discussions were centered around quantum computing, quantum communications, and quantum sensing. The day started with short talks on the current status of the field, followed by the discussions focused on different scenarios of the technology development. The eventual outcome of the workshop discussions will be a white paper. 

As a followup to the Swissnex Quantum Summit at EPFL in 2023, the Embassy of Switzerland is organizing a Swiss-Canadian Quantum Symposium on October 3-4 in collaboration with Quantum City in Calgary to showcase Swiss excellence in quantum research and quantum technology industries as well as enhance existing collaborations and help build new ones in Canada. Directly following the qConnect summit, the Embassy will host a two-day symposium to bring Swiss researchers and industry in the Quantum ecosystem together. The event will include lightening research talks, a quantum hackathon in collaboration with QAI ventures, and fantastic networking opportunities. QSE Center Executive Director Philippe Caroff will present the EPFL and Swiss quantum ecosystem. 

On June 7, 2024, the United Nations proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). According to the proclamation, this year-long, worldwide initiative will "be observed through activities at all levels aimed at increasing public awareness of the importance of quantum science and applications."