Do you want to make a ? NSF is Making a Quantum Leap - How Can Science Museums Keep Up?

C.L. Alpert, K. Thate, M. Litwhiler - Museum of Science, We’re in the midst of a new Quantum Revolution… Join us for a conversation about Quantum Education Contact: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] nd A hundred years ago, quantum physics revolutionized our understanding of the world, Sunday, October 22 , 12pm yet only now are we are beginning to learn how to finely tune the strange interactions in the Exhibit Hall Networking Area between discrete units of matter and energy at the atomic and sub-atomic level to The quantum world is complex, counter-intuitive, startling, and create powerful new quantum materials and technologies. In 2016, the U.S. National somehow “real.” The quantum technologies that may someday ...and make plans for Science Foundation designated the Quantum Leap as one of its “10 Big Ideas for We can share Brainstorm transform how we live and work are now in their infancy. Science experiences… Form a CoP… an international Future Investment.” Worldwide, funding is pouring into the development of new new ideas… workshop! quantum technologies in computing, communications and sensing, layered 2D centers and museums have a unique opportunity to partner with materials, spintronics, and single atom or photon qubits. Nations are racing to be the quantum research centers across the globe to produce pioneering first to use quantum entanglement to secure communications. Companies are exhibits, activities, media, and forums, engaging the broader community. competing to build the first quantum computers capable of crunching reams of big Have other entanglements? Can’t superposition yourself in two data and solving complex problems currently beyond our reach. places at once? Please leave us a note and we’ll be in touch… Let’s build an international Quantum Education Community Interested? Involved? Seen something cool? Add a pin! Leave a note! European Commission I know about some cool Quantum: The Exhibition Canada has invested Can$1 billion QuantumMadeSimple.com & I and/or others have interest in launched €1 billion quantum education An exhibition developed by in the last 10 yrs. Waterloo’s PhysicsReimagined.com 10-year flagship project developing quantum education Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Institute for Quantum Computing Julien Bobroff at Université Paris-Sud in Quantum Technologies. at my institution, here. happening here. Computing is currently touring is one of the leaders in the field. teams up with fellow physicists and The Delft University of science museums across Canada. design students for a variety of Technology is a major quantum multimedia art and education projects. research hub in the Netherlands. We’re already involved in Quantum Research Hub quantum education here.

UK invested £300 million in the National Quantum Technologies Programme

The US currently invests US$200 million/year, and the “Quantum Leap” is one of the National A satellite launched by China’s Science Foundation’s US$100 million Quantum “10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments.” Experiments at Space Scale program Museum of Science, Boston partners with CIQM’s in 2016 demonstrates entanglement Harvard, MIT and Howard researchers to… and teleportation between space and Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and multiple ground stations, paving the Matters’s outreach program includes short films, ...brainstorm new quantum way “to ultrasecure communication animations, public events and games. education & visualization networks and, eventually, a space- strategies with artists and filmmakers based quantum internet.”

... provide science communication Singapore invested S$219 million coaching and connect The Centre for Quantum Technologies scientists with public holds outreach events and the audiences international Quantum Shorts Quantum on competition to engage the public in Cosmic Bell: Exploring Quantum Weirdness quantum physics research. An exhibition & play developed by MIT researchers and graduate students, is … currently on display at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA. ...develop fun presentations and hands-on activities …Veritasium …Minute Physics Joint Quantum Institute (University of Maryland) produces hands-on demos and activities for outreach. ...post podcasts and videos ...inspire the next generation Australia invested A$100 million in the …Physics Girl ...Quantum Computing NOVA – The premier PBS science of quantum scientists and Center for Quantum Computation Concepts w/Prof. Andrea show tackled quantum physics in engineers... & Communication Technology (CQC2T). Morello UNSWTV and Fabric of the Cosmos, with Brian CQC2T Greene. A new NOVA tackling entanglement is in development. ...and now, we’d like to learn more about what others

Produced by MOS with support from the National Science Foundation through the Center for Integrated are doing, brainstorm new ideas, and call together Quantum Materials (CIQM) at Harvard, University, Howard University, MIT, and the Museum of Science. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) an International Quantum Education Workshop and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. DMR-121319