First “Science on Tap” meet-up draws nearly 100 attendees
The inaugural event featured Dr. Rick Mukherjee, the inaugural Director of the UTC Quantum Center.
Almost 100 people showed up last week for the debut presentation of “Science on Tap.” Organized by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the event is planned to recur on the second Tuesday of every month as an opportunity to share UTC expertise with the community in a relaxed, social setting.
As previously reported, what better way to christen the event than to feature Dr. Rick Mukherjee, the inaugural Director of the UTC Quantum Center. In his talk, “The Quantum All Around Us,” Mukherjee highlighted major developments of the first and second “quantum revolutions.” These are timely topics in 2025, which the United Nations has declared to be the international year for quantum science and technology.
Over the course of a robust Q&A session that followed Mukherjee’s talk, he described what’s happening at the UTC Quantum Center, which he joined in December. Experiments with quantum networks, quantum sensing, and developing quantum algorithms are underway or planned.
Mukherjee praised the Center’s high-profile collaborators, EPB and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for what their partnership is enabling UTC to do within the research community and for Chattanooga, the state, and beyond.
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