UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Eighty higher education students from across the country participated in various activities and engaged with quantum science experts in a week-long summer school experience hosted by the Penn State Center for Theory of Emergent Quantum Matter (C-TEQ). “The C-TEQ summer school selects a hot topic of emergent quantum phenomena — this year’s theme is ‘Quantum Simulation of Strongly Correlated Quantum Matter’,” said Bryce Gadway, professor of physics at Penn State, Quantum Hub advisory committee member. The C-TEQ summer school, hosted at University Park, was held from July 13 through 17. The theme, according to summer school coordinators, refers to using hardware like quantum computers to simulate complex systems of many quantum particles and will drive collaborations between theory and experiment. The experience was designed for graduate students with an interest in quantum sciences research but was also open to undergraduates, postdoctoral scholars and faculty. Half of the attendees were students from Penn State. Interested attendees had to apply to attend the school. "Training young researchers at the intersection of quantum information science and the theory of quantum matter is essential to meet emerging workforce needs in both academic and industrial research,” said Thomas Iadecola, associate professor of physics at Penn State, co-hire in Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences and Quantum Hub advisory committee member. “The C-TEQ summer school contributes to this goal by bringing world-class experts to the University Park campus to educate researchers from Penn State and beyond.” The summer school was packed with activities, including lectures presented by expert researchers, a meet- and- greet dinner with the lecturers and two student poster sessions. Lectures detailed various topics across quantum simulation and exposed students to new ideas that could stimulate new directions in research, according to Ribhu Kaul, professor of physics at