Applications are now being accepted for SQMS 2023 Summer Internships. Apply here. Program Description Sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, the SQMS Quantum Undergraduate Internship places undergraduate sophomore and junior physics and engineering majors in…
Anna Grassellino awarded New Horizons Prize in fundamental physics
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced the winners of the 11th annual Breakthrough Prizes, which included the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Anna Grassellino, director of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, based at Fermilab. Grassellino received…
Jens Koch named new deputy director of SQMS Center
Koch also named new Co-Director of the Northwestern-Fermilab Center for Applied Physics and Superconducting Technologies. Jens Koch, professor of physics at Northwestern University, will serve as the next deputy director for the collaboration of 23 partner institutions that make up…
CAPST Welcomes 2022 SQMS Summer Interns
CAPST warmly welcomes 2022’s summer interns at an all-day event here at Northwestern University. Interns in the 2022 summer program are working with SQMS researchers at Northwestern, Fermilab, Rigetti, and CU Boulder, gaining laboratory experience and building connections in the…
Challenges and opportunities of srf theory for next generation particle accelerators
CAPST Co-director James A. Sauls has submitted a new publication with collaborators Alex Gurevich and Takayuki Kubo. We suggest a program to establish theoretical performance limits of srf cavities using modern theories of nonequilibrium superconductivity under a strong electromagnetic field.…
CAPST/Fermilab’s Alexander Romanenko wins one of two 2022 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Awards
Alexander Romanenko of the U.S. Department of Energy Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is the recipient of one of the two 2022 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Awards of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.…