The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Chicago Quantum Exchange today announced the launch of Duality,the first accelerator program in the nation that is exclusively dedicated to startup companies focused on quantum science and technology—a rapidly emerging area that is poised to drive transformative advances across multiple industries.Duality’s purpose is to help quantum startups bridge the gap between the laboratory and the marketplace that is acritical barrier to success for emerging technologies.Led by the Polsky Center and the Chicago Quantum Exchange,Duality is also reinforced by founding partners,the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,Argonne National Laboratory and P33.The launch of the quantum accelerator comes at atime when countries around the world are racing to unlock the potential of quantum technology.The Chicago area has emerged as aleading global quantum center,notably last year when the U.S.Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation announced that three of the eight federally funded quantum information science research centers and institutes would be based in the region.Quantum science and technology has the potential to transform industries in the same way that the internet has reshaped the world in recent decades,and leaders hope that the Chicago area is positioned to benefit as the center of the quantum world in the same way that Silicon Valley transformed as it became the center of the tech revolution. 查看详细>>

Washington Park residents and visitors will soon have another reason to stop,shop and participate in the arts and cultural activity produced on ahistoric stretch of Garfield Boulevard.Three new retail tenants—ReformedSchool,Hemp Heals Body Shop and Solo Noir—will be the inaugural fellows and occupants of the newly renovated L1 Creative Business Accelerator and retail shop,the latest addition to the University of Chicago’s Arts Block project.Located at 319 E.Garfield Blvd.,L1 is situated under the Chicago Transit Authority’s Green Line elevated tracks inside of the first“L”station,built in 1892.It is operated and managed by Arts+Public Life(APL),an initiative of UChicago Arts.“We are thrilled to welcome these outstanding Black-owned businesses to the Arts Block as models for the entrepreneurial possibilities in Washington Park,particularly in these very trying times,”said Isis Ferguson,Arts+Public Life Interim Co-Deputy Director and Assoc.Director of City+Community Strategy.“ReformedSchool,Hemp Heals Body Shop and Solo Noir offer high-quality,imaginative and original products,and their residency at L1 will help them to grow their brands by connecting deeply with the needs and hopes of South Side consumers.” 查看详细>>

The Chicago Quantum Exchange,a growing intellectual hub for the research and development of quantum technology,has expanded its community to include new industry partners working at the forefront of quantum technology and research.These corporate partners are Boeing,Applied Materials,Inc.,ColdQuanta,Inc.,HRL Laboratories LLC and Quantum Opus LLC.Together,the Chicago Quantum Exchange and its new industry partners will focus on developing anew understanding of the rules of quantum mechanics,leading to breakthroughs in quantum devices,materials and computing techniques. 查看详细>>

The Chicago Quantum Exchange,a growing intellectual hub for the research and development of quantum technology,has added Northwestern University as its newest member.Northwestern joins forces with the University of Chicago,the U.S.Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in enhancing anational leading collaboration in the rapidly emerging field of quantum information.The new partnership comes as Northwestern consolidates its strengths in quantum information science,a field that promises to transform communications,security,metrology,sensing,and computing.Northwestern’s new initiative,INQUIRE,brings together dozens of researchers in its leading programs,including chemistry,materials science&engineering,physics,and electrical&computer engineering to work on developing materials and methods that can propel the future of quantum science. 查看详细>>