The QuST Apex Committee meeting was held at IIIT-Hyderabad from 8 – 9 January.
Department of Science and Technology (DST) has initiated a multi institutional networked program on Quantum Enabled Science and Technology (QuEST) to expedite the process of research and development in this emerging and promising field of Quantum Information and Computation in a uniform way so that within a span of 10 years the nation reaches the goal of building the Quantum Computers and Quantum Communications Systems. In total, 51 scientific proposals were chosen in the Phase I process and divided into four themes based on the concrete physical quantum systems on which the experiments were going to be carried out. During the meeting each theme coordinator presented the group proposal to the Apex Committee Members.