International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad hosted the first national symposium under the Quantum Enabled Science and Technology (QuEST) program initiated by DST from 11- 13 April 2022. The Symposium was organised by national coordinator of QuEST Prof. Arun K Pati from HRI, Prayagraj, and Prof. Apoorva Patel from IISc, Bangalore, co-ordinator of QuEST. Prof. Srivari Chandrasekhar, Secretary DST, the chief guest of Symposium inaugurated the event.
The symposium was hosted by IIITH’s Centre for Quantum Science and Technology (CQST) with a focus on the latest research and developments in the areas of Quantum Computing, Quantum Information Science and Quantum Technology. QuEST’s hybrid model brought together academic and industry researchers from across the country and included review/tutorials, and invited as well as contributed talks.
Prof. Pati said, Over the past 3 decades, the field of Quantum Computing and Quantum Information has evolved from theoretical possibilities to real practical applications. Keeping that in view, Department of Science and Technology (DST) initiated the Quantum Enabled Science and Technology (QuEST) program. QUEST is poised toward making India Quantum ready and moving forward for the larger National Quantum Mission.
In his inaugural speech DST Secretary Dr Srivari Chandrasekhar emphasized the need for Institutes to focus on research translations and real world solutions, going beyond publishing research papers and patents. Commending IIITH on its pioneering research, he was especially appreciative of its lab to land efforts and for setting up CQST, one of India’s dedicated and largest academic quantum science and technology centre. Confident that India would be a leader in quantum computing by 2030, Dr Chandrasekhar reiterated that, The Govt of India is committed to investing in new technologies so that the true potential of the nation is realized.
Prof P J Narayanan said, Quantum computing, communication, etc., are truly technologies with high future potential in which we must invest time and money today. IIIT Hyderabad has built a strong group in its CQST and aspires to play a major role in the country combining expertise in Quantum Science & Technology with the Institute’s expertise in broad computing areas.
Dr. Indranil Chakrabarty from CQST said, Organizing this kind of initiative and meetings in future will be of great importance from the CQST perspective in building up the ecosystem as CQST is very much dedicated and focused in achieving excellence in the area of Quantum Science and Technology.
QuEST-2022 focused on the latest research and developments on topics related to Quantum Computing, Quantum Information Science and Quantum Technology in general. The symposium was open to all researchers across the country, not just confined only to QuEST. The symposium was a unique platform which brought together researchers from Academia and Industry. In addition to review/tutorial talks and invited talks there were contributed talks.
Prof. Arun K Pati, Harish-Chandra Research Institute was the Conference Chair and Prof.Apoorva Patel, IISc Bangalore was the Conference Co-Chair.
Dr. Samyadeb Bhattacharya, Dr. Indranil Chakrabarty, Dr. Shantanav Chakraborty and Dr. Subhadip Mitra were local organizing committee members.
Invited review talks (International) were given by Rainer Blatt Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria; David DiVincenzo Juelich, Germany; Simon Devitt Australia; Stefano Pirandola University of York, UK and Dieter Suter Dortmund, Germany.
Invited review talks (National) were given by Arvind, IISER Mohali; R.Vijayaraghavan, TIFT MUMBAI; Umakant Rapol, IISER Pune and Kasturi Saha IIT Bombay.
Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Science is a merging of fundamental principles of Quantum World and Information Science. It has the potential to revolutionize all future technology. One of its major goals is to harness the principles of quantum world to design quantum computers, quantum communication systems, quantum cryptography, quantum sensing, quantum metrology and quantum thermal machines such as quantum batteries which are not possible with the existing classical technology.
Over the last 30 years, the field of Quantum Computing and Quantum Information has evolved from theoretical possibilities to real practical applications. Keeping that in view, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) initiated the Quantum Enabled Science and Technology (QuEST) program. The QUEST is poised to make India Quantum ready and move forward for the larger National Quantum Mission.
More details: https://cqst.iiit.ac.in/quest/