{"id":10316,"date":"2020-09-02T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2020-09-02T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:22:24","slug":"uri-welcomes-dr-vanita-srinivasa-to-department-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/uri-welcomes-dr-vanita-srinivasa-to-department-of-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Welcomes Dr. Vanita Srinivasa to Department of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name:<\/strong> Vanita Srinivasa
\n<\/span>URI Title:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of Physics and Director of Quantum Information Sciences Program
\n<\/span>Email:<\/strong> vsriniv@uri.edu
\n<\/span>Pronouns:<\/strong> she\/her\/hers
\n<\/span>Three adjectives she’d use to describe herself:<\/strong> passionate, dedicated, meticulous<\/span><\/p>\n

As the newest member of URI\u2019s Department of Physics, Assistant Professor of Physics and Director of the Quantum Information Sciences program Vanita Srinivasa joins us from the University of Maryland. While there, she completed her postdoctoral work in theoretical quantum information science at the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as well as at UMD\u2019s Laboratory for Physical Sciences. Prior to coming to URI, Srinivasa served as a Senior Research Scientist in Quantum Information Processing at Sandia National Laboratories. With all this in mind, Srinivasa let her work guide her in her decision to work at URI. \u201cURI is uniquely poised for growth in quantum information science and has a matching enthusiasm for expanding research and education in this field,\u201d she says. \u201cI am excited to establish a new program to help develop this direction at URI at a time when the U.S. government has made it a top priority through the National Quantum Initiative Act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to teaching PHY 112: General Physics II<\/em> in the fall, Srinivasa is excited to pursue her research interests. \u201cMy research is in theoretical quantum information science. I study the physics of quantum bits (known as qubits for short), which are the basic unit of quantum information in quantum computers,” she says. “This work involves investigating the best ways of making qubits interact while protecting them from losing the information they store. My interests are centered on using theoretical models to understand how to build the hardware components of quantum computers. Particular areas I focus on in my work include spin qubits (for example, electrons) in semiconductors such as silicon, as well as hybrid systems involving interactions of semiconductor qubits with other systems such as photons that enable quantum information to be transported more easily.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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With the Fall 2020 semester looming ever closer, Srinivasa couldn\u2019t be more optimistic, specifically when considering the additions she\u2019ll make to the physics department. \u201cI am particularly excited about developing a new research program in quantum information science at URI that investigates how to build larger quantum computing architectures by transferring quantum information between semiconductor qubits over long distances,\u201d she says. \u201cI am also eager to advance opportunities for education in this interdisciplinary and rapidly growing field for both undergraduate and graduate students at URI through research and teaching, as well as through the new MS degree in Quantum Computing established within the URI Department of Physics.\u201d As for advice to current students across the university, Srinivasa looks to both the social and academic sides of college. \u201cMy advice for current URI students \u2014 both in physics and in general \u2014 is to be open to new experiences, curious about how the world works, and to use their knowledge to make connections across disciplines, as these connections are key to changing the world,\u201d she advises. \u201cA hallmark of quantum information science is that it crosses disciplinary boundaries and promises to revolutionize the way we perceive the world by applying fundamental quantum physics principles to a wide variety of practical problems.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

~Written by Chase Hoffman, Writing & Rhetoric and Anthropology Double Major, URI Class of December 2020<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Vanita Srinivasa, our newest assistant professor of physics and director of our new quantum information sciences research program. \u201cURI is uniquely poised for growth in quantum information science and has a matching enthusiasm for expanding research and education in this field,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-10316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10334,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions\/10334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}