Colloquium – Travis Humble

Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Director, Quantum Science Center

Discovery and Innovation in Quantum Science and Technology

The Quantum Science Center is a National Quantum Information Science Research Center headquartered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The purpose of the center is to discover and innovate in the field of quantum information science (QIS) to ensure American scientific leadership, economic competitiveness, and national security. QSC addresses this mandate by targeting three major scientific challenges 1) quantum simulation platforms for scientific discovery applications, 2) quantum sensing for real-world applications, and 3) topological quantum materials for new quantum devices. This talk will give an overview of the center’s scientific goals as well as highlights of recent scientific impacts and their outcomes in each of these areas.

Apr 6, 2023 @ 4:00pm Central in Stevenson 4327; reception beforehand at 3:30pm in Stevenson 6333

Host: S. Hutson; co-sponsored by the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

To join via Zoom, please contact Reina Beach (reina.beach@vanderbilt.edu) to request the Zoom link.

Travis Humble is director of the Department of Energy’s Quantum Science Center, a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and director of the lab’s Quantum Computing Institute. Travis leads the development of new quantum technologies and infrastructure to impact the DOE mission of scientific discovery. Travis is also editor-in-chief for ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing and co-chair of the IEEE Quantum Initiative. Travis holds a joint faculty appointment with the University of Tennessee Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education to work with students in developing energy-efficient computing solutions. Travis received a doctorate in theoretical chemistry from the University of Oregon before joining ORNL in 2005.