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🎉 March 2026: DOE ARPA-E QC3 award for Asthana Group. We are excited to be part of the 2026-2029 DOE ARPA-E QC3 project, "Quantum-Classical Ab Initio Co-Simulation of Unconventional Superconductors" (QASUS), in collaboration with Infleqtion and NREL. We will serve as a quantum chemistry and quantum algorithms bridge between NREL's expertise in material simulation and Infleqtion's advanced quantum devices. This is a $3.9 million project, with $600,000 supporting the Asthana Group. ARPA-E project descriptions.

🎉 March 2026: Sri and Prince presented excellent talks at the APS March Meeting in Denver. Exciting times for quantum computing.

🎉 February 2026: Prince won the Excellent Presenter award at the ACS Red River Valley Conference. We all cheered him on there. Prince is staying busy finding conferences to attend with his travel awards.

🎉 January 2026: Check out Sri's new preprint on "Chemically decisive benchmarks on the path to quantum utility". arXiv:2601.10813.

🎈 December 2025: We welcome our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Mushir Thodika. Mushir brings deep experience in quantum chemistry and materials simulation, and we have many plans to work together on quantum computing applications. Welcome, Mushir.

🎉 December 2025: Check out our new preprint on a new quantum Krylov algorithm (QKUD): arXiv:2512.11788.

🎉 December 2025: Prince does it again. Congratulations to Prince for winning the Graduate Student Travel Award from UND. He will attend the APS March Meeting in Denver.

🎉 May 2025: Many congratulations to Prince for winning the Graduate Student Travel Award from the Division of Research and Economic Development at UND. He will attend the Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference at Wayne State University.

🎤 April 2025: Ayush is grateful to be hosted by the University of Minnesota for a quantum information talk.

🎤 March 2025: The wavefunction of Asthana Group collapsed at the APS Global Meeting in Anaheim, California.

🎉 March 2025: Check out Prince's new paper on the generalized eigenvalue problem in excited state methods for quantum computers: arXiv:2503.09670. Congratulations, Prince.

🎉 November 2024: NSF EPSCoR Fellow grant awarded to Asthana Group. This award will support collaboration with Dr. Bo Peng at PNNL and development of quantum algorithms for early fault-tolerant quantum computers. NSF award.

🎈 September 2024: New undergraduate student joins the group in collaboration with Yen Lee Loh. Welcome, Sean.

🎤 September 2024: Ayush delivered a keynote talk at an IEEE Quantum Week workshop on chemical applications of quantum computing.

🎉 September 2024: First NSF grant awarded to Asthana Group. NSF ExpandQISE award in collaboration with Prof. Ed Barnes and Prof. Sophia Economou from Virginia Tech. NSF award.

🎈 August 2024: New graduate student joins the group. Welcome, Olusayo.

🎈 July 2024: We welcome our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Srivathsan Sundar. We will work together on quantum computing applications in chemistry. Welcome, Sri.

🎤 March 2024: Ayush gave invited talks at the APS March Meeting, NREL Questaal Workshop, and Concordia College.

🎉 November 2023: New funding from the UND Early Career Grant in collaboration with Dr. Ahmed Abdelhadi (SEECS) and Dr. Mark Hoffmann (Chem). UND Today.

🎉 November 2023: Amazon Braket graciously provided quantum and classical hardware resources to Asthana Group for research.

🎓 2023: Ayush gave invited talks at IEEE Quantum Week, IIT Bombay, TIFR Mumbai, the University of Hyderabad, and UND Physics.

🎈 August 2023: New graduate student Prince Kwao joined the lab. Welcome, Prince.