Bringing the Hub together at our Project Forum

Over 80 of the QCS Hub team met last week for our two-day biannual Project Forum event. It took place at St Anne’s College in Oxford, with attendees from most of the Hub’s seventeen partner institutions around the UK travelling to the event. 

Presentations from each of the Hub’s workstreams allowed team members to share key successes and ongoing developments. With work packages covering a full range of areas from quantum computing hardware, to software and theoretical disciplines, the event provided a unique lens through which to see the wide-ranging impact of the Hub’s research. As well as general updates, each work package also presented a more in-depth look at an individual part of their work, presented by an early-career researcher.

The event also offered an opportunity for some of our 2021 DTP student cohort to present their work to the whole Hub. Presentations from students Daniel Braund, Oliver Chapman, Will Smith and Lorenzo Sticher, covered areas ranging from the quantum simulation of frustrated models in optical lattices to applications of quantum computing to real materials.

In-person events are essential for fostering collaboration and developing relationships between members of an organisation as geographically distributed as the Hub. With teams working as far apart as Sussex and Glasgow, they offer the chance to connect face-to-face and create lasting partnerships that would not be possible without meeting in person.