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LEESBURG, Va., May 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Computing Inc. ("QCI" or the "Company") QUBT, a first-to-market full-stack photonic-based quantum computing and solutions company, has been invited to present at the 2023 Department of Energy Cybersecurity and Technology Innovation Conferencebeing held at the Hilton Minneapolis Hotel on May 8-11, 2023.

Robert Liscouski, CEO of Quantum Computing Inc., will join Bert de Jong, Deputy Director of the National Quantum Initiative's Quantum Systems Accelerator and Head of the Computational Science Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Kit Menlove, High Performance Computing Software Analyst and Consultant atIdaho National Laboratory; and Lou Terminello, Associate Laboratory Director and Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for a panel discussion. The "Our Qubit Future: How Quantum Computing Will Revolutionize Information Science" panel will take place May 11th at 10:15am and the experts will participate in an in-depth discussion on the current state of quantum computing as well as the future of the industry and how this technology could revolutionize information sciences to solve humanities most complex challenges in energy, healthcare, security, and manufacturing.

Attendees of the Conference will include the DOE enterprise, the federal interagency, academia, international partners, and private industry leaders. The opportunity to present in front of this audience will allow QCI to showcase its capabilities to decisionmakers of the highest level who are focused on cybersecurity, modernizing information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments and ready to collaborate to develop technical solutions to meet national challenges.

To learn more about QCI's full-stack quantum solutions please visit our website and to follow the Conference on Twitter please use hashtag #DOEinnovates23.

About Quantum Computing Inc.

QCI is a full-stack quantum software and hardware company on a mission to accelerate the value of quantum computing for real-world business solutions, delivering the future of quantum computing, today. The company is on a path to delivering an accessible and affordable full-stack solution with real-world industrial applications, using quantum entropy, which can be used anywhere and with little to no training. QCI's experts in finance, computing, security, mathematics and physics have over a century of experience with complex technologies ranging from leading edge supercomputing to precision sensors and imaging technology, to the security that protects nations. For more information about QCI, visit http://www.quantumcomputinginc.com.

About Quantum Innovative Solutions

QI Solutions, Inc. ("QIS"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Quantum Computing Inc., is a newly established supplier of quantum technology solutions and services to the government and defense industries. With a team of qualified and cleared staff, QIS delivers a range of solutions from entropy quantum computing to quantum communications and sensing, backed by expertise in logistics, manufacturing, R&D and training. The company is exclusively focused on delivering tailored solutions for partners in various government departments and agencies.

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The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed conditions. Statements in this press release that are not descriptions of historical facts are forward-looking statements relating to future events, and as such all forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements may contain certain forward-looking statements pertaining to future anticipated or projected plans, performance and developments, as well as other statements relating to future operations and results. Any statements in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be considered to be forward-looking statements. Words such as "may," "will," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "intends," "goal," "objective," "seek," "attempt," "aim to," or variations of these or similar words, identify forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in Item 1A in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is expressly incorporated herein by reference, and other factors as may periodically be described in the Company's filings with the SEC.

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The Australian Research Council (ARC) today announced the award of $27 million for 8 Industry Laureate Fellowships, bringing industry together with Australias outstanding researchers to translate innovative ideas into outcomes that benefit industry partners, end-users, and the Australian economy.

ARC Chief Executive Officer, Ms Judi Zielke PSM said Industry Fellowships will help build skills and networks across universities and industry to conduct ground-breaking, internationally competitive research while achieving tangible outcomes.

Complementing the early and mid-career Industry Fellowship schemes, these outstanding laureate researchers bring experience and leadership to industry challenges, Ms Zielke said.

I look forward to seeing how these researchers translate their skills and knowledge into real world outcomes for industry partners and the Australian community from speeding up decarbonisation with green hydrogen, to the manufacture of material that will transform internet speeds.

Australia can only benefit from the collaboration between researchers and industry.

The 2023 ARC Industry Laureate Fellows are:

Associate Professor Phillip Cassey, The University of Adelaide ($3.8 million) develop new digital and wildlife forensic tools to improve the surveillance and detection of the illegal killing and trade of wild animals and plants, to safeguard Australias biodiversity and natural environment.

Professor Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, The University of Adelaide ($3.3 million) improve the purity and manufacturing scale of fluoride glass optical fibres which promises faster internet speeds, communication, and laser surgery applications touching many aspects of Australian lives.

Professor Timothy Fletcher, The University of Melbourne ($3.5 million) to enable a market-driven smart-grid of stormwater storages, providing consumers with nonpotable water supply, while financially rewarding them for contributions to flood mitigation and environmental flows to waterways.

Professor Alexander Hamilton, The University of New South Wales ($3.8 million) develop a groundbreaking silicon quantum computer technology and create new quantum components to dramatically speed up quantum computing capabilities. These advances will enable Australia to maintain its global lead in quantum technologies.

Professor Shizhang Qiao, The University of Adelaide ($3.5 million) design and commercialise safe, cost-effective, long-lasting, and fast-charging sodium-based batteries to store renewable energy and manage the release of excess energy into power grids during peak demand in Australia.

Professor Veena Sahajwalla, The University of New South Wales ($3.5 million) develop approaches that can be implemented locally anywhere in Australia, for using waste as a resource, recovering metal alloys, rare earth elements, generating jobs, skills and new business opportunities.

Professor Jennifer Smith-Merry, The University of Sydney ($2.5 million) address deficits in the National Disability Insurance Scheme for people with psychosocial disability, to make the scheme more effective and efficient for this group, with community benefits for all Australians.

Professor Gerhard Swiegers, University of Wollongong ($3.7 million) accelerate the decarbonisation of industry by advancing the manufacture of high efficiency water electrolysers, a key component of green hydrogen, an energy-dense renewable fuel.

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Less than three decades into the 21st century, the world is at the edge of a second quantum revolution one that integrates with the Fourth Industrial Revolution to create new technologies, new materials, and new, clean energy storage mechanisms.

It is also deepening humankinds understanding of life-generating biological processes such as photosynthesis, said Professor Jeff Murugan in his 19April inaugural lecture, The Future is Quantum How I learnt to stop worrying and embrace chaos.

It was the first in the reconfigured UCT Inaugural Lecture Series.

The term quantum revolution was coined by quantum physicists Jonathan Dowling and Gerard Milburn in 2002. It refers to quantum mechanics, a framework used to describe the dynamics of matter, such as electrons in atoms and molecules at a fundamental level.

The study of quantum matter the kind found in materials such as superconductors, magnets and graphene sits at the nexus of a number of overlapping disciplines, including condensed matter physics.

The title of Professor Murugans lecture was a play on words; chaos referring to both the realm of the everyday and the chaos that exists in realm of quantum particles because of their sometimes unpredictable properties.

The future is quantum

Early examples of quantum inventions include the transistor and laser. Lasers perhaps provide the easiest vehicle to demonstrate the enigma and potential of quantum mechanics. Lasers were developed in the 1950s by optical physicists who found that hitting certain kinds of atoms at the right energy could lead these to emit more photons with the same energy and direction as the initial photons. The effect would cause a cascade of photons, creating a stable, straight beam of light.

Suddenly were talking about material science, computing, batteries, cryptography, and all things quantum.

Harnessing the potential of a second quantum revolution has far-reaching implications, said Murugan, the founder and director of the Laboratory for Quantum Gravity & Strings (QGaSlab) in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.

Suddenly were talking about material science, computing, batteries, cryptography, and all things quantum, he said. And in other things, were better able to understand chemistry and biology in terms of quantum mechanics, for example, why photosynthesis is the most efficient energy-harvesting system known in nature is best understood in terms of a property of quantum systems known as superposition.

Quantum computing has led big companies such as Google and Microsoft to invest heavily in quantum technologies,many teaming up with academic research institutions to create partnerships that will advance this technology.

Early developments

Murugan describes the mathematics at the heart of quantum matter as beautiful.

He and his talented young research group at QGaSlab, which corrals researchers in string theory, quantum gravity and cosmology, have made small but important breakthroughs in the field.

Theres been a flurry of activity over the past five to six years, building this up.

The result has been several research papers that explore the properties of these novel quantum systems.

Among these, quantum batteries are perhaps the most exciting possibility on South Africas radar right now: next-generation battery technology that can potentially revolutionise the nature of energy generation and storage.

No South African needs to be convinced that alternative energy storage is a good thing to invest in, said Murugan.

Unlike the batteries we know, such as the lithium-ion battery in smartphones that rely on classical electrochemical principles, quantum batteries rely solely on quantum mechanics.

They have a remarkable set of properties, he explained. Charging an ensemble of quantum batteries no longer scale linearly with the number of cells, but rather, exponentially. The more batteries there are, the faster they charge and the more batteries there are, the more energy you can deposit into that system, but exponentially faster. Remarkably, this quantum advantage of these batteries is because they are quantum chaotic!

In the current era of rolling blackouts and Eskoms uncertain future, the power of quantum batteries holds enormous potential for clean, reliable energy, he added.

Even though the possibilities are manifold, including new portable power sources for electric vehicles, which charge almost instantly, it is the fundamentally quantum aspect of these processes that intrigues Murugan, the mathematical physicist.

Chaos and purpose

But his beginnings as a mathematical physicist were not promising. At school he hated mathematics.

It was boring, uninspired and disconnected from anything. Physics, on the other hand, was amazing. It was curious and made me think about the world around us.

The turning point in his relationship with mathematics came with his introduction to calculus. It showed him that mathematics and physics were inextricably interwoven.

Here was motion; things were happening. There was cause and effect.

Mathematics is really a language to understand the universe around us.

From this, Murugan drew one of several life lessons that peppered his lecture, part of a legacy he would like to impart to his students (he is a 2018 Distinguished Teacher Awardee) and his children, he said.

Mathematics is really the language of nature. And like any language, it can be learnt in two ways. You can learn it like a linguist, understanding the structure of the language and the etymology of its lexicon, or immerse yourself in a population, where you will learn how to speak the language, swear-words and all.

Following undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UCT, in 2000 Murugan travelled to the United Kingdom on a Lindbury Fellowship to pursue a PhD in non-commutative geometry in string theory, jointly at UCT and Worchester College, Oxford. He was co-supervised by UCTs Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems George Ellis and Philip Candelas, until recently Rouse-Ball Professor of Mathematics University of Oxford.

Postdoctoral studies followed at the High Energy Theory Group at Brown University in the United States. He returned to UCT in 2006 to join the Cosmology and Gravity Group, founded by Emeritus Professor Ellis. He left to begin QGaSlAB in 2012. In doing so, he had entered a new world of possibilities, perhaps too many, he said.

I am a mathematical physicist with a very short attention span so, unlike many of my colleagues, I dont spend too long thinking about any particular problem. My career has basically been a random walk through interesting problems in mathematical physics that include gravity, condensed matter, neurophysics, and even traffic flow.

This underpinned his final lesson in his lecture: Never stop learning!

Family business

The vote of thanks following Murugans presentation was delivered by his wife, UCT cosmologist Professor Amanda Weltman, the director of the High Energy Physics, Cosmology & Astrophysics Theory group at UCT andSARChI Chair in Physical Cosmology.

He takes very complex mathematical topics and unwraps them strand by strand.

Their three young children also attended the lecture, the littlest charming the audience over her fathers shoulder while another put his mind to bossing a Rubiks speed cube (a love of the abstract runs in the family).

In her address, Professor Weltman said, Theres never any doubt that Jeff was destined to be a professor of mathematical physics. His innate talent and great curiosity for understanding the universe and our world within it are two qualities that have helped him become a leader in the field and one of the most sought-after professors in the country.

Part of his appeal is that he takes very complex mathematical topics and unwraps them strand by strand. But best of all, he does so with great humour and there would be thunderous applause regularly coming from his lectures. Youd be forgiven for thinking you were at a comedy festival. And I would know that I would have to go in [to teach] next.

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Speakers discuss the impact of recent crises on Europe's global role at a two-day conference in Florence.

Building Europe in times of uncertainty was the main theme of the 13th edition of the State of the Union conference.

Speakers from around the world flocked to the Italian city of Florence for the two-day event to discuss how much the European Union has changed as a result of past and present crises.

Lessons learned from two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine were some of the issues covered on the first day of talks.

Renaud Dehousse is President of the European University Institute:

"The main lesson seems that united, the Europeans are stronger. But saying this is only one part of the answer. It is fine to say we need to be united but if you have to be unanimous, for instance, on any action plan, then at the very best the European answer will not be as quick.

And currently, migration and the lack of an EU defence policy remain divisive issues among member states

Sometimes Europe only focuses on small problems and therefore its not able to face bigger challenges," says Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. "Why has Italy highlighted the need to deal with migration? because its an issue that is shared by everyone. Its not just an Italian problem.

The rule of law and the digital transition are other themes that were debated during in-person sessions.

Panellists also answered questions about Europes global role and how it has changed as a result of recent events.

"Unfortunately," saysTimothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, "while we've got a little bit stronger,other people got a whole lot stronger, so that relative to China, to Russia, to India, to other non-Western powers, I think that we relatively week and that is part of our problem."

On Friday, the focus shifted to Europes foreign policy and the energy crisis - the worst Europe has ever faced.

That's something that can be seen both as an opportunity and a challenge, says the bloc's Director-General for Energy, Ditte Juul Jorgensen.

"We have tried to make sure that our responses align with our longer-term climate interest; that our emergency response also becomes part of the energy transition. Because that energy transition, that green energy, that efficiency in the system, is the way to keep those energies secure, but also to get affordable energy and greener energy."

Uncertain times aren't over and next year's European elections will be key to determining the future of the European Union. In the meantime, this two-day conference has sent out a very clear message: lessons drawn from the recent crises alone won't be enough to secure Europe's position in the long term.

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WARSAW, May 6 (Reuters) - Poland will demand European Union sanctions on imports of Russian farm products, its ambassador to the EU Andrzej Sados was quoted as saying on Saturday by PAP news agency.

"Europe isn't threatened by disruptions in supply chain of farm products now, contrary, we have a problem of surpluses. We are resolving a problem of increased imports of farm products from Ukraine," Sados said, according to PAP.

The European Commission earlier this week set restrictions until June 5 on imports of Ukrainian wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seed to ease the excess supply of these commodities in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last year, the EU has adopted 10 sanctions packages against Russian individuals and companies. Poland in April proposed a new set of punitive measures against Moscow, including a ban on pipeline oil and diamond imports.

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