(Aired Weds 10/22/25)
Chattanooga is on the cutting-edge map for tapping the potential of - and building the future for - quantum computing.
This summer, our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - hosted its first international quantum workshop.
For this episode of “Scenic Roots,” we bring you a panel discussion from the workshop that took place at the Tennessee Aquarium.
Dr. Rick Mukherjee, the inaugural director of UTC’s Quantum Center introduced Charlie Brock, founder of the Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative, who led the panel discussion.
On the panel:
- Mark Safman, an experimental physicist and professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison - and chief scientist for quantum information at Inflection.
- Dieter Jaksch, a theoretical physicist at the University of Hamburg in Germany - and a leader in quantum research in the European Union.
- Janet Rehberg, who now leads strategic initiatives at EPB here in Chattanooga - and in September, she was named President and CEO-Elect of EPB.
- Brad Chadwell, senior lead for research partnerships at Tennessee Valley Authority in Knoxville.
- And, Paul Parrazoli, who serves at IBM Quantum as its program development lead for government science programs.
_____
