Past Events
March 31, 2026 | NAISE Event
NAISE Workshop on End-to-end Quantum-HPC Workflows for Scientific Applications
Link to NAISE Quantum-HPC Workflows Workshop Booklet
Organizers: Laura Schulz (ANL), Neelesh Patankar (Northwestern, ANL-NAISE Fellow), Begum Gulsoy (Northwestern, ANL-NAISE Fellow)
Scope: This workshop is the first in a series aimed at exploring how quantum computing may eventually fit into scientific workflows alongside HPC for challenging scientific applications. We will explore possibilities and open a dialogue; an initial step toward understanding where quantum might offer your science more value.
Neelesh Patankar in coordination with Laura Schulz will introduce the workshop with an overview of the goals. We’ll continue by examining workflows through examples from Peter Coveney and IQM’s Kristine Rezai, showing how they identified bottlenecks and potential quantum leverage points. We’ll also discuss how quantum-HPC hybrid approaches might reshape software design. Martin Schulz and Robert Wille will help us explore how workflows may shift. Sachin Bharadwaj will provide a perspective from engineering mechanics, highlighting recent progress in developing end-to-end quantum methods for nonlinear systems such as fluid flows.
This is a starting point as we aim to understand the needs, concerns, and the opportunities envisioned in various application domains. As quantum systems emerge alongside HPC, we want to identify potential use cases with those eager to explore new methods for scientific progress. This workshop will help us collaboratively gauge what’s possible and what steps may follow.
March 12, 2026 | NAISE Event
NAISE Workshop on Advanced Metal Manufacturing:
Characterization, Artificial Intelligence, and Critical Applications
Link to NAISE Advanced Metal Manufacturing Workshop Booklet
Organizers: Tao Sun (Northwestern, ANL-NAISE Fellow), Samuel Clark (ANL, Northwestern-NAISE Fellow), Begum Gulsoy (Northwestern, ANL-NAISE Fellow)
Scope: NAISE Workshop on Advanced Metal Manufacturing: Characterization, Artificial Intelligence, and Critical Applications aims to foster collaboration between Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory while addressing urgent research and development needs in metal manufacturing. Advanced metallic components are foundational to technologies in energy, defense, and national security, yet current manufacturing capabilities face increasing challenges related to supply chain resilience, materials qualification, process control, and scalability. Recent disruptions and evolving performance requirements underscore the need for coordinated advances in materials design, manufacturing science, and data-driven innovation. This workshop seeks to identify shared challenges, define high-impact research directions, and catalyze collaborative efforts that advance next-generation metal manufacturing for critical national needs.
The workshop will focus on the following interconnected themes:
- Advanced alloy and manufacturing process development for critical applications: Emphasizing materials and processing strategies tailored for energy and national security, with the goal of strengthening domestic manufacturing capabilities, mitigating supply chain vulnerabilities, and enabling efficient qualification of high-performance components.
- Integration of artificial intelligence across the metal manufacturing lifecycle: Embedding AI into education and workforce development, process monitoring and control, material-process-product co-design, and qualification and certification to accelerate innovation, in alignment with national initiatives such as GENESIS that apply AI to advance scientific discovery and manufacturing.
- High-throughput and high-resolution characterization of metallic materials and manufacturing processes: Leveraging advanced experimental capabilities to achieve in-depth understanding of process-structure-property relationships, establish high-fidelity datasets, and provide reliable ground truth for physics-informed and data-driven model development.
January 16, 2026 | NAISE Event in partnership with INQUIRE & AMI
NAISE CMOS+"X" Workshop:
Bridging CMOS Manufacturing with Neuromorphic & Quantum Technologies
Link to CMOS+X Workshop Booklet
Scope: The NAISE CMOS + “X” workshop aims to foster collaboration between Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory by uniting experts in materials science, device engineering, neuromorphic architectures, and quantum science. A central theme is leveraging the extraordinary capabilities of advanced semiconductor manufacturing, where modern CMOS integrated circuits represent the most complex systems ever engineered, integrating billions of components at high yield and high volume. Against this backdrop, the workshop will explore CMOS + “X” heterogeneous integration: combining mature industrial processes with emergent materials, devices, and physical computing modalities to unlock new functionality for neuromorphic and quantum systems. A key objective is to form strong, competitive proposal teams for upcoming funding opportunities spanning fundamental research and applied microelectronics programs. Discussions will emphasize co-design across materials, devices, and architectures, as well as strategies for scaling prototype neuromorphic and quantum subsystems into larger, manufacturable systems. By aligning institutional strengths with national priorities and emerging scientific challenges, the workshop aims to catalyze innovative partnerships that advance next-generation neuromorphic and quantum technologies.
Organizers: Antonino Miceli (Argonne National Laboratory), Begum Gulsoy (Northwestern)
This event was organized in partnership with Northwestern Institute for Quantum Information and Engineering (INQUIRE) and Argonne Microelectronics Institute.
October 30, 2025 | NAISE & INQUIRE Event
Quantum System Software Stack (QS3) Workshop II:
Compilation in the NISQ, FTQC, and hybrid quantum-classical era
Organizers: Kate Smith, Nikos Hardavellas, Neelesh Patankar, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Begum Gulsoy (Northwestern)
Scope: Effective quantum computing systems require a complementary software stack to execute quantum programs. Further, robust and scalable compilers will help quantum applications and hardware reach their full potential. Compilation plays a central role in translating high-level quantum programs into hardware-executable instructions that maximize the utility of limited quantum resources. By integrating both the context of algorithm along with hardware-awareness into the compilation process, quantum compilers can reduce execution overheads, improve fidelity, and enable hybrid quantum-classical workflows that bring practical applications closer to reality.
This workshop will explore the open questions and opportunities in quantum compilation, from designing intermediate representations (IRs) that balance generality and performance between the algorithmic, logical, and physical layers to embedding calibration and noise models directly into compilation pipelines. Additionally, the development of language features and abstractions that make quantum programming accessible to a broader community, increasing the adoption and exploration of the technology. Topics include compiler support for error detection, mitigation, and correction, cross-layer integration between algorithms and hardware, intermediate representations, optimized mapping, gate synthesis, scheduling, routing, noise suppression, standardization, software engineering principles, benchmarking and debugging methods tailored to quantum information’s probabilistic nature. By bringing together experts from academia, industry, and national labs, this workshop aims to define key research challenges, foster collaboration across the software-hardware stack, and accelerate progress toward robust, scalable, and performance-optimized quantum computing systems.
September 11, 2025 | NAISE Event
NAISE All Hands Technical Meeting 2025
at Northwestern
Link to Meeting Information Booklet
Scope: This annual event convenes all NAISE Fellows, and other Northwestern Faculty and Argonne Researchers interested in inter-institutional collaborative research, for programmatic updates and technical discussions on a broad variety of scientific topics.
Organizers: Neelesh Patankar (NU - MechE/NAISE), Amanda Petford-Long (ANL - MSD/NAISE), Begum Gulsoy (NU - MSE/NAISE) , Emilie Giacobbe (NU - NAISE)
September 8, 2025 | NSRC Event
Northwestern Synchrotron Research Center (NSRC)
2025 User Meeting
Organizers: NSRC Co-directors - Mike Bedzyk (NU-MSE) & Alfonso Mondragon (NU-MolBioSci)
User poster session followed by a presentation on the status of the APS Upgrade and the future of research at the Advanced Photon Source by Associate Lab Director, Laurent Chapon, followed by a brief update on the status and plans of both DND-CAT and LS-CAT.
July 31, 2025 | NAISE Event
NAISE Town Hall & Lunch at Argonne
Organizers: Amanda Petford-Long (ANL-MSD/NAISE), Neelesh Patankar (NU-MechE/NAISE), Begum Gulsoy (NU-MSE/NAISE)
Town Hall, 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Lunch & Networking, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Scope: It has been a year of changes at NAISE: The new NAISE co-directors, Amanda Petford-Long (ANL) and Neelesh Patankar (Northwestern), NAISE Director of Research, Begum Gulsoy (Northwestern), and NAISE Director of Operations and Outreach, Emilie Giacobbe (Northwestern), briefly introduced the new NAISE team and structure, provided information about upcoming events and ways to get involved, hosted a Q&A session for Joint Appointees. The Town Hall was followed by a lunch and networking.
May 23, 2025 | NAISE & INQUIRE Joint Event
QS3: Quantum System Software Stack Workshop
Link to Workshop Information Booklet
Scope: While quantum computing has vast potential, current implementations are constrained by the number of qubits (essential for algorithms with many variables), coherence times (vital for running long algorithms), and gate fidelities (crucial for achieving accurate results). Quantum hardware needs to improve by several orders of magnitude along all these dimensions before it can become truly useful for a wide range of applications. Even though quantum hardware advances toward that goal, waiting for it alone to close the gap between the capabilities it offers, and the needs of applications, may take decades. A more balanced approach would be to complement the hardware with a software stack that utilizes the available limited hardware resources in the most efficient manner possible. This full-stack approach improves quantum performance from the user’s viewpoint by collaboratively fine-tuning hardware and software layers, integrating them tightly among them and with classical computing resources, with the aim to make quantum computing practical at an accelerated time scale.
This workshop will explore the open questions and challenges in developing this quantum software system stack, including complementary hybrid quantum-classical systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, quantum algorithm design, quantum programming languages, compilation (e.g., mapping, gate synthesis, gate scheduling, routing, error mitigation, error detection), quantum error correction (e.g., optimal QEC strategies, resource requirements, noise tolerance, decoding), technology mapping (e.g. quantum/classical partitioning, circuit cutting, backend selection), quantum hardware and software co-design, hybrid quantum-classical systems, optimal quantum control and calibration, and classical emulation of quantum computation and technology (e.g., quantum circuit and device simulation). By defining key challenges and open problems in these areas, this workshop aims to drive progress toward more robust and scalable quantum systems.
Organizers: Kate Smith (NU-CS) , Nikos Hardavellas (NU-CS), Enectali Figureoa-Feliciano (NU-PHY), Neelesh Patankar (NU-MechE/NAISE), Begum Gulsoy (NU-MSE/NAISE)
More Information on Northwestern Institute for Quantum Information and Engineering (INQUIRE)
September 13, 2023 | NSRC Event
Northwestern Synchrotron Research Center (NSRC)
2023 User Meeting
Organizers: NSRC Co-directors - Mike Bedzyk (NU-MSE) & Alfonso Mondragon (NU-MolBioSci)
User poster session followed by a presentation on the status of the APS Upgrade and the future of research at the Advanced Photon Source by Associate Lab Director, Laurent Chapon, followed by a brief update on the status and plans of both DND-CAT and LS-CAT. Click for Event Flyer
Summer 2023 | NAISE Networking
Networking at Advanced Photon Source
Organizers: Stefan Vogt (ANL-XSD/NAISE), Alec Sandy (ANL-XSD), Begum Gulsoy (NU-MSE/NAISE)
NAISE and Argonne's X-Ray Sciences Division (XSD) leadership are co-organizing a NU-ANL networking events at Argonne National Lab's Advanced Photon Source (APS). The event aims to build and further conversations regarding the ongoing upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source and post-upgrade plans.
JUNE 16 - Jeffrey Richards (NU-ChemBE) & Jeffrey Lopez (NU-ChemBE), hosted by organizers
JULY 14 - Dayne Swearer (NU-ChemBE/NAISE), hosted by Xioayi Zhang (ANL-XSD)
June 14 & 15, 2023 | CHiMaD Training in collaboration with NAISE
JARVIS School
Organizers: Kamal Choudhary (NIST), Ankit Agrawal (NU-ECE), Begum Gulsoy (NU-MSE/NAISE), Mathew Cherukara (ANL-XSD/NAISE)
Lead Trainers: Kamal Choudhary (NIST), Ankit Agrawal (NU-ECE)
June 14 @ NAISE HQ, Northwestern // June 15 @ ANL-APS
1-day training on JARVIS (Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations) developed by researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Artificial Intelligence-based tools for materials design, developed by Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD).
May 10, 2023 | NAISE Workshop
5G+ Communication for Science
Leads: Randall Berry (NU-ECE/NAISE), Rajkumar Kettimuthu (ANL-MCS/NAISE), Begum Gulsoy (NU-MSE/NAISE)
Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE) lead a workshop in the area of Aadvanced Wireless Communication on May 10. This workshop aimed to develop a research agenda for advanced wireless communications (including 5G+) to support science applications.
- Seeking to identify the scientific application requirements for advanced wireless communicationons and their differences with the industry requirements.
- Understanding the gaps in RAN and core in addressing the scientific application requirements.
- Identifyingg research opportunityties.
- Discussing operation challenges including spectrum usage for research/testbeds and potential solutions.
The keynote speaker for the event was Amitava Ghosh, NOKIA Fellow and Head of Radio Interference Group at NOKIA Bell Labs. Dr. Ghosh's presentation was entitled On the Path to 6G: Industry Alignment and Collaboration are Key to Make it a Success. [AGENDA]
April 21, 2023 | NAISE Workshop
Microelectronics
Leads: Charudatta Phatak (ANL-MSD/NAISE), Pedram Khalili (NU-ECE), Begum Gulsoy (NU-MSE/NAISE)
Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE) is organizing a 1-day workshop in the area of microelectronics to explore collaborative opportunities between Northwestern and Argonne. The workshop aims to convene scientists and faculty to identify key strengths and complementary capabilities at both institutions. We also anticipate participation from industry in this workshop. A limited virtual option will be available for those who are not able to travel.
The workshop focused on four high-level topics [AGENDA]:
- Materials Discovery and Characterization
- Circuits
- Integration: Bridging Materials, Devices and Circuits
- Workforce Development
February 9, 2023 | NAISE Networking
NAISE Early-Career* Networking Meet-up
Leads: Begum Gulsoy (NU-MSE/NAISE), Ian McCue (NU-MSE)
