The main aim is to give you a short introduction to our activities and how to build larger Quantum Information Systems (QIS) (and QT/QC (Quantum Technologies/Quantum Computing) ) collaborations and activities, research and education.

• MSU: Ben Hall, Jane Kim, Julie Butler, Danny Jammoa, Nicholas Cariello, Johannes Pollanen (Expt), Niyaz Beysengulov (Expt), Dean Lee, Scott Bogner, Heiko Hergert, Matt Hirn, Huey-Wen Lin, Alexei Bazavov, Andrea Shindler and Angela Wilson
• UiO: Stian Bilek, Heine Åbø (now OsloMet), Håkon Emil Kristiansen, Øyvind Schøyen Sigmundsson, Jonas Boym Flaten, Kristian Wold (now OsloMet), Lasse Vines (Expt) Andrej Kuznetsov (Expt), David Rivas Gongora (Expt) and Marianne Bathen (Expt, now PD at ETH)

This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, office of Nuclear Physics under grant No. DE-SC0021152 and U.S. National Science Foundation Grants No. PHY-1404159 and PHY-2013047 and the Norwegian ministry of Education and Research for PhD fellowships.