In regard to the most pleasant visit we had had on Monday, our leders, Christen our Rector, Laurence our Dean and André our department leader, has written an interesting and highly relevant opinion piece in Khrono:
https://www.khrono.no/et-kvantesprang-for-en-viktig-teknologi/908439
Good read!
Image credit: Christen Krogh.
We love having visitors at our Hub. Monday September 30th, we had particularly distinguished ones: Karianne Tung (minister of digitalization), Bjørn Arild Gram (minister of defence) and Oddmund Hoel (minister of higher education and research) came by.
The occasion was a budget leak: The government will allocate 70 million kroner annually to quantum tech. This funding will be allocated via the Research Council.
It is truly great to see that the efforts made by the Norwegian community on raising quantum awareness hasn’t gone unnoticed by the government.
This was a good day at the office!
Read more about it in today’s Klassekampen,
https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2024-10-03/kvantesprang-for-kvanteforskning
and on our own pages,
https://www.oslomet.no/om/nyheter/storsatsing-kvanteteknologi
16.-20. september presenterte Vebjørn Bakkestuen og Andre Laestadius sine REGAL-prosjekter på konferansen Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Electronic Structure Models (MANUEL). Konferansen ble arrangert av Professor Benjamin Stramm ved Universitetet i Stuttgart på campuset i Vaihingen.
Her samlet de matematikere, fysikere og kjemikere fra hele verden som driver med matematisk og numerisk analyse innenfor elektronstrukturberegninger. På programmet var alt fra maskinlæringsmetoder for tetthetsfunksjonalteori til ulike aspekter ved numerisk analyse av både velkjente og nye metoder. Programmet inneholdt også en rekke andre matematiske analyser av både teori og metodikk innen fagfeltet.
Laestadius presenterte prosjektet Quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory for the Dicke Hamiltonian, en analyse av tetthetsfunksjonsteori for kvante-elektrodynamiske modellsystemer. Prosjektet ble gjennomført i samarbeid med Bakkestuen, Mihály A. Csirik og Markus Penz, og analyserte interaksjoner mellom lys og materie ved hjelp av et Density Functional Theory (DFT)-perspektiv.
Bakkestuen fremviste også en poster fra prosjektet Kohn-Sham inversion with mathematical guarantees, i samarbeid med Laestadius og Michael F. Herbst ved École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL). De undersøkte hvordan man ved hjelp av ny algoritme kan bruke elektrontettheten i krystaller og andre periodiske strukturer til å finne det elektriske potensialet som genererer en slik tetthet.
Posteren henger nå på veggen mellom Kvantehuben og kaffemaskinen i 3. etasje på kontoret!
Prosjektene møtte gode tilbakemeldinger fra publikum, da det var en ny og interessant angrepsvinkel. Nå skal REGAL-gruppa ta med seg kommentarene videre i sine neste prosjekter.
10. og 11. september deltok kvantehuben på Finans Norge sin konferanse “Digital robusthet 2024 – svindel og cybersikkerhet”. Der diskuterte de informasjonssikkerhet og svindel i finansnæringen.
Sølve var på plass for å fortelle om kvanteteknologi, og trusselen kvantedatamaskiner kan utgjøre mot dagens krypteringer i fremtiden.
Yves Rezus, lecturer in physics at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), is joining the Quantum Hub team this year.
Having a PhD in ultrafast spectroscopy, Yves led a research group for several years. He has always been eager to find out about the laws of nature and is passionate about sharing his understanding with others. Therefore, he started lecturing chemistry at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences.
In 2022, Yves moved to AUAS and became part of the team developing and teaching the new Applied Physics program. The university teaches students technical skills, such as constructing complex detectors.
Experimental knowledge
Now, Yves, his wife and their two sons are moving to Oslo for a year. He is still working two days a week for his home institution, coordinating a specialization semester on Enabling Technologies for Quantum Science, but spends the remaining days of the week participating in lectures, doing outreach and other projects at the Quantum Hub. The second semester, he hopes to get involved in the master projects.
– Both AUAS and OsloMet are developing new courses and have applied research projects on quantum technology, so this is a great opportunity to see if we can learn from each other, he says.
Yves thinks his hands on, experimental knowledge will bring a different perspective on quantum technology to OsloMet. He is already impressed by the faculty’s openness and the students’ enthusiasm to learn about this perspective.
Eager to learn
Yves views every day in Norway is an adventure where he discovers something new. Having learned Norwegian for half a year, he admires people’s willingness to speak Norwegian with him and values the practice he gets from small talk.
So, when you run into Yves in the hallway: strike up a conversation!
Welcome to the team, Yves!
Vi er veldig glade for å ha fått Noa Cecilie Sæther med på laget! Noa studerar journalistikk på andre året hos oss på OsloMet. I tida framover vil ho hjelpe oss med reportasjar, bilder, tekst og anna som har med kvante-aktiviteten vår å gjere.
Velkommen, Noa!
Professor Yves Rezus from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) joined the Quantum Hub last week for his one-year sabbatical. During his time, he will participate in various Quantum Hub activities, including outreach and teaching. Specifically, he will contribute to our course on Quantum Information Technology, which aligns perfectly with his efforts at the Hogeschool, where he is also establishing a practical course on Quantum Physics and Technologies. We anticipate many productive discussions on teaching strategies, methods, and approaches, enriched by his field experience!
Last but not least, as an expert in NMR technology, Yves can help to realize our dream to utilize our three-qubit machine as an experimental platform to explore NMR physics.
The Arendal week has long since passed. And, in terms of technology, the winner of the battle for attention was quite undisputed: AI.
There were, however, some events dedicated to emerging quantum technologies too. Two, to be specific. While few, less than 1 per mille of the number of AI related events, they were very well visited.
Please read Andre Brodtkorb’s and Sergiy Denysov’s reflections on the topic in this Khrono-kronikk:
https://www.khrono.no/norge-ma-ta-del-i-det-globale-kvantekapplopet/896460
To anyone in who happen to be in Arendal Tuesday August 13th: Please join the quantum session at 14.00!
We are happy to see GlobalConnect raising the issue of the Norwegain participation in the quantum race, or, rather, the lack of such. They have put together very interesting panels of participans, many of whom are friends of the family.
Do come to Edgars bakeri and listen if you happen to be in Arendal during the Arendalsuka!
From 9th to 12th of June, we had the pleasure of hosting a little workshop on atoms and lasers – and a couple of other things too. This was put together in connection with a visit from our esteemed colleges from Warsaw University, prof. Katarzyna Krajewska (picture), prof. Jerzy Kaminski (prince George amongst friends) and their team.
They all delivered very interesting presentations – as did Thomas Bondo Pedersen and his students from the Hylleraas Centre, which is headed by Thomas, and Morten Førre and his students. Presentations holding the promise of significant and new scientific contributions in the near future – both when it comes to pair creation, strong field ionization beyond the dipole approximation and the ability to describe complex, unbound molecular systems dynamically.
As for our local “hubbers”, our own Bendik got to demonstrate several of his very nice research results, and Sergiy gave a nice introduction to the diverse activities in our hub. We were happy to see the Regal fraction of our Quantum Hub, headed by Andre, taking and active part – both presenting and participating.
For more details – and a cool gallery, please visit the workshop’s homepage.
We thank Maryam Kaviani for taking care of virtually all practicalities. And we do not thank our technical division for remaining silent about the overly cool temperature in our original venue.
