Day 1 — Feb 19, 2026
7:30 AM8:30 AM Registration and Beakfast
8:30 AM8:45 AM Welcome and Introductions: Anthony Maciejewski (DD ECCS), NSF Program Directors
8:45 AM9:00 AM Workshop Overview: Sergei V. Kalinin
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Session 1: Opening and Vision Chair: Adina Luican-Mayer
Speaker 1: 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM David Awschalom: Emerging opportunities with quantum-engineered semiconductors
and molecules
Speaker 2: 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Susanne Stemmer: Topological materials for quantum information systems
10:00 AM10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM12:00 PM Session 2: Quantum from Semiconductor and Molecular Perspectives Chair: Shashank Misra
Speaker 3: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Michael R Wasielewski: Exploiting Molecules and Molecular Materials for Quantum
Information Science
Speaker 4: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM John Randall / James Owen: Scaling throughput of Atomically-Precise Lithography
for APAM and other Quantum Devices
Speaker 5: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Oleg Gang: Towards 3D Nanofabrication through Programmable Self-Assembly
12:00 PM1:00 PM Lunch/Yves Idzerda: Transitioning 2D Technologies at the MonArk Quantum Foundry
Breakout Sessions
1:00 PM2:30 PM 1:00 PM2:30 PM 1:00 PM2:30 PM
Breakout 1: Photonic Sensing and
Integration		 Breakout 2: Soft Quantum Matter Breakout 3: AI for Molecular Discovery and Automated Synthesis
Chair: Dmitri Basov Chair: Ulrich Wiesner Chair: Aram Amassian
2:30 PM3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM4:00 PM Session 3: Industry and National Labs Chair: Jeremy Levy
Speaker 1: 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM David Menasche: Quantum technology: industry watch
Speaker 2: 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Kevin Roccapriore: Deterministic atomic engineering with electron
beams at scale
Speaker 3: 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM Vivien Zapf: Quantum information and molecular magnetism
Speaker 4: 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM Dusan Vobornik: Inverted-Mode Scanning Tunneling
Microscopy for Atomically Precise Fabrication
4:10 PM5:30 PM Session 4: Integration between molecules and semiconductors Chair: Vincent Meunier
Speaker 1: 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM Ulrich Wiesner: The Promise of Soft Matter enabled Quantum Devices
Speaker 2: 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM Dmitri Basov: Hyperbolic Materials for Quantum Information Science
and Technology
Speaker 3: 4:50 PM – 5:10 PM Aram Amassian: Illuminating Process Histories: Uncovering
Process–Structure–Property Causality via In‑Situ and
Multi‑Modal Characterization in Self‑Driving Labs
Speaker 4: 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM Peter Maurer: From diamond to proteins qubits
6:00 PM8:00 PM Dinner/Dinner Keynote: Rahul Sarpeshkar: Analog and Probabilistic Computers: From Quantum Atom To Living Body
Day 2 — Feb 20, 2026
7:30 AM8:20 AM Registration and Beakfast
8:20 AM10:00 AM Session 5: Silicon for Quantum and Novel Semiconductor Functionalities Chair: Robert Butera
Speaker 1: 8:20 AM – 8:40 AM Shashank Misra: Why is silicon quantum computing taking so long?
Speaker 2: 8:40 AM – 9:00 AM Marco Loncar: Quantum Optical Interconnects
Speaker 3: 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM Gregory David Fuchs: Quantum sensing and quantum magnonics using diamond
spins and vanadium tetracyanoethylene
Speaker 4: 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM Michael Manfra: Quantum Devices Enabled with Hybrid
Superconductor-Semiconductor Heterostructures
Speaker 5: 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM Xiuling Li: Quantum Sensing with Spin Defects in III-Nitrides
10:00 AM10:20 AM Coffee Break
10:20 AM12:00 PM Session 6: Molecules and AI assisted synthesis Chair: Benjamin Lawrie
Speaker 1: 10:20 AM – 10:40 AM Danna Freedman: Molecular Color Centers
Speaker 2: 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM Marija Drndic: Coupled Nanopores for Sensing and Other Applications
Speaker 3: 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM Masha Kamenetska: Quantum Properties of Molecular Circuits
Speaker 4: 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM Justin Caram: Atomic physics in a beaker?
Speaker 5: 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM Grigory Tikhomirov: Democratizing Nanofabrication of Quantum Systems
via Molecular Self-assembly
12:10 PM1:00 PM Lunch/Paul Weiss: Connecting and Quantifying Quantum Molecular and Hybrid Systems
Breakout Sessions
1:00 PM2:30 PM 1:00 PM2:30 PM 1:00 PM2:30 PM
Breakout 1: From direct Beam and Probe
Fabrication into semiconductor pipelines		 Breakout 2: Molecular Building Blocks
and Hybrid Quantum Platforms		 Breakout 3: Scaffold-driven self-assembly
of quantum devices
Chair: Robert Wolkow and
Steven Spurgeon		 Chair: Marko Lončar Chair: Greg Tikhomirov
2:30 PM3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM4:00 PM Session 7: Local Probing, Direct Atomic Fabrication Methods, and Integration into Classical Device Pipelines Chair: Greg Fuchs
Speaker 1: 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Michael Flatte: Spatial Anisotropy of Acceptor Wave Functions in Silicon
Speaker 2: 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM Adina Lucan-Maier: Quantum functionality of nanoscale-controlled 2D materials
Speaker 3: 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM Robert Wolkow: Pico Perfect Placement