Quantum Noir: A conference series focused on Faculty, Researchers, and Students of Color(+) in the Quantum Sciences

非技术描述：这项工作将导致创建“量子黑色”，这是一个两年一次的量子、纳米科学和工程会议，目标是来自传统上在STEM中代表性不足的群体的研究人员。会议的主要目标是教育与会者量子科学和工程的范围和潜力，阐明全国的科学机会，并与代表不足的群体的研究人员建立网络，将与会者与量子科学和工程社区的领导人联系起来，重点放在新技术、国家政策和劳动力培训上。这次会议是对教师、研究人员和来自代表性不足群体的学生进入量子科学的培训和招聘活动。量子信息、量子传感和量子网络方面正在进行的革命是一个全国性的挑战，我们必须用我们所有的资源来应对，无论是人力资源还是其他资源。有了这一支持，Quantum Noir将帮助弥合这一关键的资源缺口。技术描述：我们正在见证量子科学与工程的出现，这是一场与微电子革命一样重大的技术变革。这一新学科的兴起要求我们团结全国科学界，以应对这一机遇。这项工作的大部分基础是凝聚态科学和工程，在历史上，由于进行世界级工作所需的广泛基础设施和资源有限，有色人种研究人员，特别是在小型和少数族裔服务机构，一直存在进入壁垒。这次会议将作为一次重要的劳动力培训和发展活动，使量子工程公司的领导者能够直接向新一代多样化的研究人员传播“最先进”的技术。这次会议将为研究人员和学生创造一个合作的纽带，并将允许行业和风险投资社区接触到尚未开发的创新者来源。第一次会议将在哈佛大学举行，部分由哈佛纳米系统中心(CNS)主办。Quantum Noir将利用社区专业知识真正使量子科学多样化，并建立社区，通过将所有研究人员与可用的基础设施、资源和培训联系起来，确保我们正在优化国家的人才和人力资源。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Non-technical description: This work will lead to creation of “Quantum Noir”, a biennial Quantum, Nanoscience and Engineering conference targeted at researchers from groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM. The primary goals of the meeting are to educate participants of the scope and potential of Quantum Science and Engineering, illuminate scientific opportunities nationwide, and to network researchers from under-represented groups, connecting participants “collaboratively” with leaders in the Quantum Science and Engineering Community, focused on new technologies, national policy, and workforce training. The conference serves as a training and recruiting event for faculty, researchers, and students from under-represented groups into the Quantum Sciences. The ongoing revolution in Quantum Information, Quantum, Sensing, and Quantum Networking is a national challenge we must meet with all our resources, human and otherwise. With this support, Quantum Noir will help bridge this critical resource gap.Technical description: We are witnessing the emergence of Quantum Science & Engineering, a technology disruption as significant as the revolution in microelectronics. The ascent of this new discipline demands we rally the nation’s scientific community to address this opportunity. Much of the foundation of this work is based in condensed matter science and engineering where historically, there has been a barrier of entry for researchers of color, particularly at small and minority serving institutions, due to limited access to the extensive infrastructure and resources required to do world-class work. The conference will serve as an important workforce training and development event by enabling technology dissemination of the “state-of-the-art” from Quantum Engineering leaders, directly to a new generation of diverse researchers. The conference will create a collaborative nexus for researchers and students and will allow industry and the venture community access to an untapped source of innovators. The first meeting will be at Harvard University hosted in part by the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS). Quantum Noir will leverage the community expertise to truly diversify Quantum science, but also to build community, ensuring we are optimizing the nation’s talent and human resources available by connecting all researchers with the available infrastructure, resources, and training.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.