It seems like over the past few years, Quantum is being talked about more and more. We’re hearing words like qubits, entanglement, super position, and quantum computing. But what does that mean … and is quantum science really that big of a deal? Yeah, it is.

It’s because Quantum science has the potential to revolutionize our world. From processing data to predicting weather, to picking stocks or even discovering new medical drugs. Quantum, specifically quantum computers, could solve countless problems.

Dr. Heather Masson-Forsythe, an AAAS Science & Technology Fellow in NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, hosts this future-forward episode.

Featured guests include (in order of appearance):
Dr. Spiros Michalakis, the manager of outreach and a staff researcher at Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center.

Dolev Bluvstein, a doctoral student at Harvard University, working in the Lukin Group at the Quantum Optics Laboratory.

Dr. Scott Aaronson, Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center.

Dr. Milad Abolhasani, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University.

00:00 What is Quantum
00:15 Quantum Science
00:34 Quantum Computing
00:53 NSF
01:13 Quantum Physics
01:41 Quantum Explained
01:54 Qubit
02:19 VR Virtual Reality
02:36 Quantum Computing Explained
03:06 How Fast are Quantum Computers
03:23 Logical Qubit
04:13 Harvard
04:48 Center for Ultracold Atoms
05:01 Quantum Computers
05:14 Quantum Mechanics
05:52 Amplitudes
06:06 Quantum Technology
06:17 Quantum Dots
06:38 Quantum Displays
07:00 Electron
07:16 Entanglement
07:47 Quantum Information Science