KAIST and MIT Hold Winter School for Quantum Talent Development

by Paek Jongmin

Published 08 Jan.2024 08:06(KST)

Updated 08 Jan.2024 14:27(KST)

Professor Keterli, Nobel Laureate, and 6 Faculty Members Teach On-site Lectures Directly

KAIST (President Kwang Hyung Lee) will hold the ‘KAIST-MIT Quantum Information Winter School’ at its Daejeon campus for two weeks starting from the 8th to nurture talents in Quantum.

Professors lecturing at the KAIST-MIT Quantum Information Winter School. From the top left: Wolfgang Ketterle, Seth Lloyd, William Oliver, MIT professors. From the bottom left: Moon Eunguk, Choi Jaeyoon (Department of Physics), Bae Junwoo (Department of Electrical Engineering), KAIST professors.

The winter school, where a total of six professors from KAIST and MIT will give lectures in person, is designed to stimulate interest in the field of quantum information science and provide an opportunity for in-depth education to outstanding science and engineering students in Korea. At the opening ceremony on the 8th, Professor Wolfgang Ketterle, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, will deliver the keynote speech.

After the opening ceremony, MIT professors including Wolfgang Ketterle, Seth Lloyd, and William Oliver will lecture, and in the second week starting from the 15th, KAIST professors including Eun Guk Moon, Jaeyoon Choi (Department of Physics), and Junwoo Bae (Department of Electrical Engineering) will give lectures.

KAIST and MIT Hold Winter School for Quantum Talent Development

A total of 38 third- and fourth-year undergraduate students from universities nationwide will participate in this lecture. A mini-course covering the basics and representative experiments of each field, as well as technical limitations and countermeasures, will be operated across the entire field of quantum information science, including quantum communication, quantum sensing, quantum computing, and quantum simulators.