IGERT: Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering: a Graduate Research and Training Program

这一综合性教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖支持麻省理工学院(MIT)量子信息科学与工程跨学科研究生项目的发展。量子信息领域位于科学和工程的交叉点，在最微观的尺度上研究计算机和通信系统的行为，量子力学在这一领域变得重要。它是一个快速发展的领域，融合了物理、数学、计算机科学、化学和工程学的元素。麻省理工学院的计划将开发一个统一的、多学科的量子信息课程，其中将包括实验室和教学经验，以及与来自学术界、工业界和政府的国际财团合作伙伴的暑期实习。学生论文将强调理论与实验、科学与工程之间的相互作用。每年，该项目将为大学大四学生提供为期一周的量子信息暑期课程，以鼓励女性和代表不足的少数族裔进入该领域。通过队列发展活动、必要的研究伦理研讨会以及与联盟合作伙伴的互动，学生将学习成为国际科学和工程界负责任和积极响应的成员。社会对更多更好的信息设备和系统的要求越来越高，而美国在这些应用领域的持续领导地位取决于以新的方式培养我们最优秀的年轻人的头脑。突破性技术？用于安全通信、精确测量和超级计算机？肯定取决于量子力学行为。麻省理工学院的项目将为学生满足这些需求做好准备。通过超越传统的学科界限和创造创新的教育技术，它的毕业生将为学术界、政府以及将开发和生产量子技术的行业带来亟需的量子专业知识。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the development of an interdisciplinary graduate program in quantum information science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The field of quantum information lies at the intersection of science and engineering, addressing the behavior of computers and communication systems at the most microscopic scales, where quantum mechanics becomes important. It is a rapidly developing field, incorporating elements of physics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, and engineering. The MIT program will develop a unified, multidisciplinary curriculum in quantum information that will include laboratory and teaching experiences, as well as summer internships with international consortium partners from academia, industry, and government. Student theses will emphasize the interplay between theory and experiment, and between science and engineering. Each year, the program will offer a week-long quantum information summer school for college seniors, to encourage women and underrepresented minorities to enter the field. Through cohort development activities, a required seminar on research ethics, and interactions with consortium partners, students will learn to become responsible and responsive members of the international scientific and engineering community. Society is increasingly demanding more and better information devices and systems, and continued United States leadership in these application areas depends on cultivating our best young minds in new ways. Breakthrough technologies ? for secure communications, precision measurements, and supercomputers ? will surely depend on quantum-mechanical behaviors. The MIT program will prepare students to meet these demands. By transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries and by creating innovative educational techniques, its graduates will bring much-needed quantum expertise to academia, to government, and to the industries that will develop and produce quantum technologies. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.