Inside the efforts to train talent for Virginia’s offshore wind needs.
Record-high demand drives production expansions in facilities across the Commonwealth.
In a region where coal once dominated, the Energy DELTA Lab will be a proving ground for clean energy advancements.
As the enormous project nears the commencement of construction, its name evokes a longstanding commitment to creating jobs for hundreds of Virginians while developing a new source of reliable, renewable energy capable of powering up to 660,000 homes.
Revamped energy plan aims to build energy capacity through flexibility, technology innovation.
What had been a slow, steady evolution of Virginia’s energy economy to increase the use of cleaner energy sources has now gone up-tempo with concerted efforts across multiple administrations.
At the 1981 "The Physics of Computation" event, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman called for the creation of quantum computers to simulate quantum physics, famously saying, “Nature isn’t classical, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.”
Dr. Sophia Economou is a professor of physics at Virginia Tech and the director of the university’s Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on theoretical quantum information science, including quantum computing with numerous types of qubits.
La Vida Cooper is the communications and navigation line of business manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the deputy program manager for strategic initiatives within the exploration and space communications projects division at Goddard, and the executive director of the Washington Metropolitan Quantum Network Research Consortium (DC-QNet), a joint initiative among six federal agencies and two affiliates to operate a quantum network testbed.
The quantum age is rapidly approaching. So rapidly, in fact, that any approach to developing a workforce must account for the changes happening at the speed of light as quantum science shifts from theoretical to practical application.