The new Sydney Quantum Academy has received over $15m in new funding from the NSW state government to promote educational and entrepreneurial links between four Sydney universities: UNSW, University of Sydney, UTS and Macquarie University.
Author: Andrew See
Federal Minister for Education Dan Tehan visits CQC2T & ANFF-NSW: Jan 2019
Federal MP Dan Tehan toured ANFF-NSW where world-leading quantum computing qubit devices are fabricated. As an NCRIS funded facility within the Federal Education portfolio, ANFF-NSW was honoured to receive a visit from the Federal Minister for Education. The Minister visited CQC2T and ANFF on Friday 9th December. Following presentations and discussions with Professor Andrew Dzurak (ANFF-NSW Director and a CI in CQC2T) and Professor Sven Rogge (UNSW HoS Physics and a CI in CQC2T) on the state of quantum computing research at CQC2T, the Minister toured a range of laboratories at UNSW associated with CQC2T’s research efforts. The Minister also visited the ANFF-NSW fabrication facilities which supports a range of research projects including world-leading research in quantum computing.
ANFF to receive $36.2M additional funding
The Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham, announced on 15 May 2018 that an additional $36.2 million will be invested in the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) to maintain the ANFF network’s position at the forefront of scientific exploration.
As the Research Infrastructure Investment Plan released by Minister Birmingham outlines, “investments in new instruments at the ANFF will enable Australia to not only undertake world-class R&D but also rapid prototyping of next generation equipment and application of the technology for industry and commercialisation
ANFF-NSW Colloquium – Associate Professor Charles, University of Auckland
Date: Friday 6th Oct 2017
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: Red Centre Central Wing 1042
Title: Human Neural Chip Platforms
Speaker: Associate Professor Charles Unsworth
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss how my group are developing a transformative silicon chip technology that will allow us to build highly accurate large scale grid networks of neurons on chip which are electrically addressable at the single cell level. We will achieve this aim by innovatively combining our recent breakthroughs in cell patterning and ultra-sensitive electrode design with laser cell steering and laser ablative microsurgery to produce precisely defined circuits on chip. This will provide an enabling platform technology for scientists to accurately map how the electrical signals of cells propagate from the single cell level through to large network scales, currently not possible, providing higher degrees of control and repeatability over randomly cultured networks. The technology’s impact will be to enable scientists to investigate healthy networks of cells in order to understand how electrical signalling propagates during processes such as learning and memory. In addition, it will enable researchers to study how the propagation of electrical communication may change in dysfunctional networks such as occur in epilepsy and stroke.
Bio: Associate Professor Charles Unsworth is Director of the Neural Engineering Group, which he established in 2002. His group specialises in Neural Chip in vitro models, Advanced Nonlinear Signal & Image Processing and Neural Mathematical Models in the Department of Engineering Science.
Please RSVP to a.see@unsw.edu.au
Flip-flop qubits: a whole new quantum computing architecture
Andrea Morello was featured in Sydney Morning Herald (Monday 5th Sept) for his group’s Nature Communications paper published on Wednesday, which lays the groundwork for scaling up to multi-qubit architectures. For more details, please see link:
