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OSI Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 14, 2019 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | July 7, 2022 |
| Award Number: | 1936853 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Bogdan Mihaila
bmihaila@nsf.gov (703)292-8235 OSI Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI) MPS Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2019 |
| End Date: | August 31, 2023 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $149,999.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $149,999.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
1523 UNION RD RM 207 GAINESVILLE FL US 32611-1941 (352)392-3516 |
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Dept. Comp & Info Science, P.O. Gainesville FL US 32611-6120 |
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| NSF Program(s): | QL-The Quantum Leap: Leading t |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.049 |
ABSTRACT
The Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) program is part of the Quantum Leap, one of the research Big Ideas promoted by the National Science Foundation. This award is a QLCI Conceptualization Grant, which supports activities to build capacity among teams planning for the large-scale, interdisciplinary Challenge Institute projects that aim to advance the frontiers of quantum information science and engineering. Research at these Institutes will span the focus areas of quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum simulation, and/or quantum sensing. The Institutes are expected to foster multidisciplinary approaches to specific scientific, technological, and workforce development goals in these fields.
This Conceptualization Grant will develop well-formulated plans for a future Challenge Institute proposal along the theme of large molecule (biology) simulation leveraging electronic structure and quantum computation.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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This Conceptualization Grant supported "community-building activities that will enable discussion conducive to the free exchange of ideas in order a) to understand and describe challenges facing the US research community interested in quantum information science and engineering, b) to identify opportunities to overcome those challenges, and c) to lay out a path forward that will accelerate progress in quantum information science and engineering." More specifically, activities in this project were aimed at exchanging ideas to 1. Identify a research agenda for the interdisciplinary goal of applying quantum computers to problems in biology and 2. Explore approaches to workforce development for quantum information science.
Towards the first goal, several meetings were held, in person and virtually during 2019 and 2020. Face to face meetings included a kickoff meeting at the University of Florida and a day long workshop in conjunction with the Sanibel Symposium in February 2020. A virtual meeting during the summer of 2020 identified interdisciplinary collaborations. One set of ideas for using quantum computers in a biological context was published as a forward looking review article, "Application of Quantum Computing to Biochemical Systems: A Look to the Future", in Frontiers in Chemistry. These activities culminated in a proposal QLCI-CI: The Quantum L.E.A.P (Leveraging Enzymes and Advanced Phylogenetics) Institute for a Quantum Leap Challenge Institute submitted to NSF.
In the area of workforce development, we have observed that quantum instruction remains deeply rooted in a pedagogy developed in the late 1940s for teaching quantum mechanics. Even though there are hundreds of quantum mechanics textbooks, most continue to follow a very similar pedagogy based on differential equation in position space (sometimes altering the ordering of topics to teach spins first). This is much less so in quantum computing and quantum communication education, where newer paradigms have been developed, primarily from the Computer Science realm (such as teaching quantum mechanics from the lens of a novel theory for probability). In January 2023, the team hosted workshop on Quantum Education for Quantum Workforce Development which brought together a diverse group of participants from academia, industry, and government to explore ideas for approaches to teach at the K-12 level, at the undergraduate (including community college) level, and at the graduate level. More information about the workshop can be found at https://faculty.eng.ufl.edu/quantum-information-systems/2023/03/15/workshop-on-quantum-education-for-quantum-workforce-development/
Last Modified: 12/15/2023
Modified by: Beverly A Sanders
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