The 2nd Quantum Revolution: The Race to Build “Impossible” Computers

Speaker: Dr. Luigi Frunzio
Affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Yale University

Date: Monday, October 13, 2025

Time: 3:00 PM

Location: SERC 116

Dr. Luigi Frunzio is Co-Founder and Chief Technologist at Quantum Circuits, and a Senior Research Scientist at Yale, where he also directs the Cleanroom Quantum Foundry. Since 2003, he has collaborated with Michel Devoret — recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics — as well as Dan Prober and Rob Schoelkopf, on the development of superconducting qubits and amplifiers for modular, fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Dr. Frunzio earned his first Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Naples “Federico II” (1990), with a dissertation on fluctuations in Josephson junctions, under the supervision of Prof. Arturo Tagliacozzo and Roberto Cristiano. He later completed a second Ph.D. at the University of Paris-Sud XI (2006), under the supervision of Marc Gabay and Michel Devoret, focusing on the design and fabrication of superconducting circuits for quantum signal processing.

We hope you will join us for this exciting lecture exploring the forefront of quantum technology.