President Emeritus Daniele Struppa has been appointed an honorary director for the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University.
Struppa, the Parker Kennedy Chair in Mathematics, is a member of the newly formed steering committee for IQS and will advise on topics in mathematics and its applications to quantum physics.
“We are excited that Dr. Struppa will be playing an important role in planning our activities and helping to guide our activities in the intersection in mathematics and quantum physics,” said Andrew Jordan, co-director of IQS and the Kennedy Chair in Physics.
Struppa has been instrumental in the formation and growth of IQS at Chapman, which is becoming a leading hub for quantum innovation. His contributions were most recently commemorated in the opening of the Daniele C. Struppa Research Park, which includes a new facility for IQS in the renovated historic Lydia D. Killefer School, a registered landmark important to the history of desegregation in the U.S.
The new facility includes a quantum research hub, which received a $2.43 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The hub will focus on key topics in quantum foundations research and aims to become the primary center of excellence for the field in the country. Quantum foundations seeks to understand what supports quantum-level phenomena from operational, scientific or philosophical perspectives.
Insights and discoveries in quantum foundations will be shared with the scientific community and the public through regular seminars, annual conferences and public lectures. The unique collaboration involves theoretical physicists, experimental physicists and philosophers who will apply methods from their respective disciplines to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of reality.
In addition to quantum foundations, the impressive team of researchers within IQS will study other critical subjects within physics.
