Day 1 — Feb 19, 2026
7:30 AM8:30 AM Registration and Beakfast
8:30 AM8:45 AM Welcome and Introductions — Anthony Macijewski (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 Lucan-Maier
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: Atomic Scale Fabrication - a Top-Down Digital Approach
Speaker 5: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Oleg Gang: Programming 3D Assembly of Optical and Electronic Nanomaterials
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: Scaffold-driven self-assembly of quantum devices Breakout 2: Soft Quantum Matter Breakout 3: Molecular Building Blocks and Hybrid Quantum Platforms
Chair Greg Tikhomirov Chair: Ulrich Wiesner Chair: Marko Lončar
2:30 PM3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM4:00 PM Session 3: Industry and National Labs Chair: Jeremy Levy
Speaker 1: 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM David Menasche, Google, TBD
Speaker 2: 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM John Siopsis, TBD
Speaker 3: 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM Vivien Zapf, LANL: Quantum information and molecular magnetism
Speaker 4: 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM TBD
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?
Speaker 3: 4:50 PM – 5:10 PM Marija Drndic?
Speaker 4: 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM Peter Maurer?
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 4: 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 Manfra: ?
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 5: Molecules and AI assisted synthesis Chair: TBD
Speaker 1: 10:20 AM – 10:40 AM Danna Freedman: Molecular Color Centers
Speaker 2: 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM Aram Amassian, TBA
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, TBA
Speaker 5: 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM Chair Grigory Tikhomirov: Democratizing Nanofabrication of Quantum Systems via Molecular Self-assembly
12:10 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: From direct Beam and Probe Fabrication into semiconductor pipelines Breakout 2: AI for Molecular Discovery and Automated Synthesis Breakout 3: Photonic Sensing and Integration
Chair: R. Wolkow and S. Spurgeon Chair: Danna Freedman Chair: Dmitri Basov
2:30 PM3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM4:00 PM Session 6: 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, TBA
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 R. Wolkow, TBA