2026 CMQT Symposium

April 23 & 24, 2026 | Evanston, IL

Welcome Symposium Participants

On behalf of the Institute for Quantum Information Research and Engineering (INQUIRE), we are delighted to welcome you to the Fourth Annual Symposium of the Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT), a US DOE-sponsored Energy Frontier Research Center.

CMQT’s mission is to develop the fundamental scientific understanding needed to carry out quantum-to-quantum transduction exploiting the quantum properties of molecular systems.

The Symposium keynote address will be given by Dmitri Basov of Columbia University on April 23 at 5:30pm in Pancoe Auditorium (2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208).

On April 24, the symposium will continue starting at 9:00am at Ryan Hall, room 4003 (2190 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208).

Symposium speakers include:

• Dmitri Basov [keynote speaker], Columbia University
• Claudia Avalos, New York University
• Gregory Fuchs, Cornell University
• Ryan Hadt, California Institute of Technology
• Martin Kirk, University of New Mexico
• Justin Caram, University of California, Los Angeles
• Martin Holt, Argonne National Laboratory

We look forward to seeing you in April.

Sincerely,

Michael R. Wasielewski
Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry
Director, Institute for Quantum Information Research and Engineering (INQUIRE)
Director, Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT)

Symposium Sponsors