Purdue hosts national Quantum Summer School, advancing next-gen quantum leaders

Students in conversation around table with PQSEI signage in background

Students networking at the fifth annual Quantum Summer School, held at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus during spring quarter 2025. (Purdue University photo/Dave Mason)

Purdue recently hosted the Quantum Summer School for the Department of Energy’s Quantum Science Center (QSC), welcoming more than 100 graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty from across the country.

Travis Humble and student discuss research poster
Twenty students showcased their research during two poster sessions and talked with researchers from academia and industry about their work. Travis Humble, distinguished scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and director of the QSC, judged the poster session. (Purdue University photo/Dave Mason)

The weeklong program, led by the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute on the West Lafayette campus, featured presentations from academic experts on the latest developments in theory, research and application, plus hands-on demonstrations and training from quantum industry insiders. It was the fifth annual QSC Quantum Summer School.

The Quantum Science Center, headquartered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is one of five multidisciplinary National Quantum Information Science Research Centers supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Central to the QSC mission is developing the next generation of scientists and engineers, and the summer school is a hallmark of that effort.

Supriyo Datta presents featured lecture
This year’s event commemorated both 150 years of engineering at Purdue and the United Nations proclamation of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Supriyo Datta, the Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is credited with introducing spin-orbit coupling to control electron spin with an electric field, rather than a magnetic field. (Purdue University photo/Dave Mason)

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