College of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy Analysis Professor Andrew Landahl visited the U.S. Capitol to obtain the 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, one of many U.S. Division of Power’s (DOE) most prestigious honors for mid-career scientists.
Andrew Landahl
Landahl can be a Distinguished Analysis & Growth Scientist at Sandia Nationwide Labs, the place he has led a number of Huge Science initiatives and mentored a number of UNM college students to commencement as Sandia Interns. He was chosen for his landmark contributions to quantum computing whereas at Sandia Labs, inventing important new strategies for quantum error correction and open entry quantum computing. Landahl additionally helped lead a number of Sandia Lab groups in growing two new quantum computer systems from scratch, and in creating an award-winning challenge centered on disseminating quantum information. Exterior customers might acquire entry to Sandia’s quantum computer systems to program and discover.
“It’s an amazing honor to obtain this award,” Landahl stated. “It acknowledges not solely me, however the dozens of scientists and engineers at Sandia and UNM with whom I’ve collaborated over a twenty-plus 12 months profession to advance the sector of quantum computing.”
Landahl additionally serves as a member of UNM’s Middle for Quantum Data and Management, a fellow of the American Bodily Society, and was throughout the chair line of the most important quantum info science skilled societies.
The Lawrence Award was began to honor the reminiscence of groundbreaking Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who invented the cyclotron, an accelerator of subatomic particles that helps us perceive the construction of matter. It has benefited humanity in quite a few methods, together with the event of nuclear medication.
As a Lawrence Award recipient, Landahl is one in all 10 scientists and engineers within the U.S. this 12 months to obtain a quotation signed by Secretary of Power Jennifer Granholm, a gold-plated medal, and a portion of a $20,000 honorarium.
That hybrid award ceremony was Thursday, Sept. 22, in Washington, D.C. Learn extra concerning the award or watch the ceremony after at DOE’s web site.