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<Title>Quantum on track in Baltimore!</Title>
<Tagline>Posted: September 17, 2025</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content">In a breakthrough study, QSI members <a href="https://quthermo.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Sebastian Deffner, Emery Doucet, and Reece Roberston </a> demonstrate the feasibility of using quantum devices to manage urban train scheduling, using a Baltimore transit line as a model!<a href="https://umbc.edu/stories/quantum-on-track-for-train-scheduling/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> See the full story here.</a></div>
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<Summary>In a breakthrough study, QSI members Sebastian Deffner, Emery Doucet, and Reece Roberston  demonstrate the feasibility of using quantum devices to manage urban train scheduling, using a Baltimore...</Summary>
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<Title>QSI Bonds with Chemistry Department</Title>
<Tagline>Posted: September 16, 2025</Tagline>
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<Summary>UMBC Chemistry Professors Joseph Bennett, Marie-Christine Daniel, and Zeev Rosenzweig bring a wealth of experience in quantum dots, quantum materials, and quantum chemistry to QSI.  Welcome Joe,...</Summary>
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<Title>Fabio Anza and Geoffrey Diederich selected as Fellows for Scialog: Quantum Matter and Information</Title>
<Tagline>Posted: June 13, 2025</Tagline>
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<Summary>QSI’s Fabio Anza and Geoffrey Diederich join a select cohort of researchers from a cross-section of academic disciplines – physics, chemistry, materials science, applied mathematics, computer...</Summary>
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<Title>QSI Faculty Member Geoffrey Diederich wins ORAU Junior faculty research award!</Title>
<Tagline>Posted: May 30, 2025</Tagline>
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<Summary>ORAU has awarded competitive research grants to 36 junior faculty from its member institutions – including QSI’s Dr. Diederich at UMBC! These awards recognize faculty members for their work in...</Summary>
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<Title>QSI Faculty Member Jim Franson win&#8217;s international quantum research award!</Title>
<Tagline>Posted: February 14, 2025</Tagline>
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<Summary>Optica (formerly OSA) has named James Franson as the 2025 Leonard Mandel Quantum Optics Award Recipient.  See the full story here.</Summary>
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<Title>QSI&#8217;s Prof. Sebastian Deffner delivers public lecture on quantum thermodynamics.</Title>
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<Title>QSI Director Todd Pittman delivers UMBC GRIT-X talk on quantum entanglement.</Title>
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