About the Conference

Quantum Science and Engineering Education Conference (QSEEC) is an annual conference, where education researchers and practitioners come together to discuss methodologies for curriculum and tool development for instruction and teaching. Emphasis is on addressing the need for quantum information science education, translating from teachable skills to real world applications, and sharing perspectives from educators and professionals in QSE alike. QSEEC is collocated with the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE22), and a single registration covers both conferences.

We welcome contributions on all approaches and learners of QSE.  Learners may be from any background, stage of learning, and geographical location.  Sessions are organized into four tracks: K-12, university, industry, and community-based education.

This is the first edition of this conference. For its predecessor, refer to the Teaching Quantum Information Science workshop at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering.

Call for Papers

QSEEC 2022 seeks talks and discussion on teaching and developing materials for learning quantum information science, quantum engineering, quantum technologies, and quantum computing. Submissions are welcome from any geographical region, for any age and type of learner, on any subject within the field of quantum information science and engineering.

Dates:

• Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2022, 11:59 pm EDT (UTC-4)
• Poster abstract submission deadline: July 15, 2022, 11:59 pm EDT (UTC-4)
• Acceptance notification date: August 1, 2022
• Conference date: Sunday, September 18, 2022

Examples of welcome topics include, but are not limited to:

• best practices for teaching QSE concepts
• hands-on lab design for in the classroom or virtual instruction
• effectiveness of quantum software tools with a curricular component or of games with quantum phenomena in their game mechanics
• findings from organizing courses, bootcamps, workshops, teacher trainings, or hackathons
• methodologies for quantum education to better reach larger or underrepresented audiences, and improve their participation and retention
• work on code tutorials, comics, videos, lectures, and all other media formats such as detailed description on the development as a resource for others, usability to grasp concepts, or appeal to different audiences
• review of the landscape of a topical area, geographical region, demographic, or other aspect of quantum education and/or outreach
• description of a proposed course, curriculum, or standards framework supported by the rationale for its structure

Proceedings & Best Papers

• Papers accepted to and presented at the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE22) will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library and IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) in September 2022.
• The best QCE22 papers will be recommended to the journals IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE) and ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC).
• QCE22 will award Best Paper Awards for the Technical Program Tracks. The QCE22 Best Paper Awards will be presented in the plenary sessions before the keynote presentations on the day the respective paper is being presented.

Paper Types & Submission Guidelines

Each technical paper contribution must conform at the time of submission to the IEEE Formatting Instructions (i.e., title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option). The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.

Submitted papers may be of two formats, in accordance with the QCE22 Call for Papers:

• Full papers should: (1) clearly describe innovative and original research, or (2) report a survey on a research topic in the field. Technical papers are limited to 10 pages (including figures and tables and appendices), plus two additional pages for references.
• Short papers are 4-6 pages, plus one page of references. These papers should fall into one of the following categories:
  • New Ideas and Emergent Results (NIER) papers describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques that are in an early stage of development.
  • Experience and Application papers describe the experiences gained from applying/evaluating quantum computing and engineering research results in practice. It is encouraged that the partners from both practice and research join the effort as co-authors and that the paper reflects the perspective of both sides. The papers should emphasize the value of the experience for the community – especially the lessons learned due to the transfer of research results to practice.
  • Artifact papers describe model problems, exemplars, or useful sets of resources for the broader quantum computing and engineering community.

Important Technical Paper Submission Requirements

• By submitting a technical paper to IEEE QSEEC 2022, you are making a commitment for at least one author to register and attend the conference upon acceptance of your paper.
• All conference speakers and participants must be registered to attend, either in-person or virtually, the conference on Sunday, September 18, 2022.  Limited funding is available covering the cost of conference registration for accepted speakers for whom registration is a financial barrier, on a case-by-case basis.

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Marek Osiński, University of New Mexico, USA
• John Donohue, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Matthew Doty, University of Delaware, USA
• Megan Ivory, Sandia National Labs, USA
• Yolanda Lozano, Computer Science Alliance and Computer Science Teacher's Association New Mexico, USA
• John Doyle, Harvard University, USA
• Mark Newburn, Nevada State Board of Education, USA

Program Committee

• IEEE Quantum Education Program Committee Members
• Student Committee Members
  • Lia Yeh, University of Oxford, UK
  • Samanvay Sharma, Keio University, Japan
  • Alberto Maldonado Romo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
  • Richard Kienhoefer, University of Barcelona, Spain
  • Kevin Jofroit Joven Noriega, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
  • Praveen Jayakumar, Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Jayanti Singh, Central University of Punjab, India

Contact

• Conference Chair: Marek Osiński, University of New Mexico, USA — osinski@chtm.unm.edu
• Program Chair: Lia Yeh, University of Oxford, UK — lia.yeh@cs.ox.ac.uk