Quantum Week at Yale

April 1 to 10, 2026

A week to celebrate quantum science on the Yale Campus!

To celebrate World Quantum Day on April 14, and the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, the Yale Quantum Institute is bringing to you Quantum Week at Yale (or QWAY!).

QWAY is a full week of quantum-related events (from Wednesday April 1 to Friday April 10) all over campus to help people outside the field to enter the fascinating world of quantum science and to celebrate Yale leadership in this field!

Quantum Week at Yale is created by Florian Carle for the Yale Quantum Institute. QWAY flyer was designed by Martha W Lewis and Florian Carle.

Homebase:
Yale Quantum Institute,
4th floor, 17 Hillhouse Avenue
When:
April 1 to April 10, 2026

Wednesday April 1

1 pm
AP/YQI Colloquia Series - Steven Flammia
@ YQI

YQI flyer

Audience: YQI Researchers

We are kickstarting the QWAY with a colloquium by Steven Flammia from Virgina Tech on Learning, Correcting, and Computing with Noisy Quantum Devices.
Click here for the full abstract.

12 pm
YQI welcomes the daeZERO cohort
@ YQI

YQI flyer

Audience: daeZERO cohort

daeZERO, CT’s first Quantum Computing program for High School Students, will come to YQI for a tour of the quanutm superconductive devices.
Click here for more info about daeZERO.

Thursday, April 2

10 am
Physics Open House
@ YQI

Physics Openhouse

Audience: Prospective Students from Yale Physics

Yale Physics Department is happy to invite admitted students to their Open House event, including a visit of the Yale Quantum Institute.
Click here for the full program.

Friday, April 3

All day
QAISys 2026 - NSF Workshop on Systems Research at the Quantum-AI Frontier
@ Duke in DC
QAISys flyer

Audience: Quantum researchers

Following the successful NSF QuantumOS workshop hosted in 2024 in Austin, TX, we invite you to attend the second workshop QAISys 2026 in Washington, DC.

QAISys (pronounced “Kay-see’s”) brings together researchers from quantum computing, computer systems, AI, and edge computing to surface open problems, challenge assumptions, and define the research agenda for integrated quantum-AI systems. The workshop features invited talks, lightning presentations, panel discussions, and collaborative breakout sessions organized around four research thrusts. This workshop is supported by the US National Science Foundation Award #2435033.

Click here for more info and registration.

Saturday & Sunday, April 4-5

All weekend, starting at 9 am
YQuantum Hack 2026
@ O.C. March Hall
YQuantumHack

Audience: Undergraduate students (18+ only)

YQuantum is Yale’s premier quantum computing hackathon., bringing on campus teams from Yale, UConn, Southern, and local high-school for a weekend of discovery of quantum computation. Ready to take on the challenge? More info and registration at yquantum.dev

Monday, April 6

2 - 4 PM
Pop up Exhibition: Rare Books on Quantum and Science at the Beinecke Library
@ Beinecke Library
Beinecke

Audience: Open to the public

We invite you to a pop-up exhibit to discover a selection of rare science books and manuscripts from 1511 into the 20th century from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Featured authors include Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Luigi Galvani, Georg Simon Ohm, James Clerk Maxwell, Ada Lady Lovelace, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Max Planck, and Grace Murray Hopper.

Curated by Andy Shimp and Kayleigh Bohemier, Science and Engineering Librarians

Tuesday, April 7

5 PM
Happy Hour for the QuantumCT Staff
@ Surprise location!
Drink

Audience: QuantumCT staff, invitation only

The PMs and support staff are invited to a Quantum happy hour as appreciation of their incredible work to make the Yale/UConn project a success!

Wednesday, April 8

11 am - 4 pm
2026 Quantum UP! Challenge
@ UConn School of Business
QuantumUp logo

Audience: CT Students

The Quantum UP! Challenge is a multi-phase educational program designed to provide students with a foundational understanding of quantum technologies and their emerging applications. Drawing on this new knowledge—alongside their academic backgrounds in business, law, and the social sciences—participants will analyze real-world opportunities and develop recommendations for how quantum technologies can be responsibly and effectively leveraged to support Connecticut’s future. More info and registration on the UConn website.

Thursday, April 9

11 am - 12 pm
YQI Seminar - Nobuyuki Yoshikawa - Yokohama National University's Institute
@ YQI
Flyer

Audience: YQI Researchers

Energy-Efficient Superconducting Digital Electronics: Current Status and Perspectives
Click here for the full abstract.

11 am - 12 pm
Kimball Smith Series - International Scientific Coopertition: Balancing Collaboration and National Security
@ William Harkness Hall, Room 201
Flyer

Audience: Yale Community

Join the Kimball Smith Series for a hybrid moderated panel followed by small group discussions over lunch regarding the science, economics, and politics of international scientific collaboration.
Click here for more information.

Friday, April 10

12 - 1 pm
YQI Colloquium - Emma Rosenfeld - Google Quantum AI
@ YQI
Flyer

Audience: YQI Researchers

Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor
Click here for the full abstract.

All week

Permanent collection
Quantum Art at YQI
@ Online Exhibition
Quantum Art

Audience: Open to the public.

The Yale Quantum Institute successfully launched its artist-in-residence program in the summer of 2017. Each year, the institute welcomes an artist for a year-long residency to produce quantum science-based artwork and visuals, participate in a series of public talks to explain their work, and the science behind it across disciplines, and in particular across the humanities-science divide.
Discover or re-discover all the Quantum Artwork created by our artists over the years here.

Permanent collection
Quantum at Yale
@ Online Exhibition
Quantum-Online Exhibit

Audience: Online - Open to all.

In collaboration with Marx Science and Social Science Library, the exhibit celebrates Yale University’s achievements in advancing our fundamental understanding of quantum science and engineering and turning quantum physics into practical technologies. Viewers will discover profiles of quantum researchers, highlights of faculty authored books, illustrations of fundamental instruments and equipment, and entrepreneurial ventures.

Visit the online exhibition here.

Permanent collection
How to Join the Quantum Workforce?
@ Online Professional Development Panels


Audience: Online - Open to all

Building quantum technology requires a lot of people with different backgrounds (physicists, electrical engineers, computer scientists, software engineers, chemists, …) and it can be overwhelming to consider a career in quantum science and information.
This series of 5 public virtual professional development panels (College, Graduate School, Faculty Positions, Start-ups, and Industry) dedicated to share information on careers in the field of quantum science and information, from College t, allows to learn from students and researchers in the field what it is like to work in quantum science and get advice on navigating the various pathways.

Contact:

Florian Carle, Institute Manager

Phone:

(203)436-9153

Address:

17 Hillhouse Avenue, Suite 436, New Haven CT 06511