University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Grainger College of Engineering

Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center

IQUIST

Leading the way in quantum

Find out how IQUIST is making the Midwest a quantum powerhouse.

The Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST) brings together physicists, engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians to advance quantum information science and train a quantum-ready workforce. The center is accelerating innovation through partnerships spanning academia, government, and industry.

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U of I Quantum
Circuit Conference

May 19 - 22, 2026

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LATEST NEWS

Physicists develop new protocol for building photonic graph states

Jeni Bushman | February 10, 2026

Illinois physicists develop a new technique to model particle physics on a quantum computer

Madeline Stover | February 9, 2026

Goldschmidt team funded for quantum research on rare-earth atoms

Lauren Laws | January 28, 2026

How a federal quantum bill could accelerate Illinois' tech ambitions

| January 13, 2026

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U P C O M I N G E V E N T S

February

11

Quantum Working Group Seminar

4:00 PM

1065 Lincoln Hall

February

11

IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Exploring Many-Body Quantum Geometry Beyond the Quantum Metric with Correlation Functions: A Time Dependent Perspective", Yuntao Guan, Bradlyn Group

11:00 AM

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

February

11

The Physics Colloquium: Krishna Rajagopal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Hot and Cold Quark Soup Under Pressure

4:00 PM

Loomis Lab 141

February

12

The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar, Abijith Krishnan (MIT), "The Kondo Impurity in the Large Spin Limit"

12:00 PM

ESB 3110

February

13

IQUIST Special Seminar: Sam Garratt, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University

1:00 PM

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

February

16

The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Special Theory Seminar, Francisco Guinea (DIPC and Imdea Nanoscience, Spain), "Superconductivity in graphene stacks"

12:00 PM

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