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Garching campus opens doors to quantum research

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October 1, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

On October 3rd, visitors to the Garching Research Campus will encounter the normally unseen world of quantum computing, as Munich Quantum Valley hosts an open day at the Walther-Meißner-Institut (WMI). The event coincides with the WDR children’s program “Türen auf mit der Maus,” aiming to make complex science accessible to all ages.

Components of a functioning quantum computer will be on display alongside a hands-on activity where attendees can create quantum-themed pin buttons, bringing the abstract concept to life. The WMI will also host a lecture series in Seminar Room 143, beginning at 10:30 AM with a talk titled.

Munich Quantum Valley Exhibits at Garching Research Campus Open Day

The Walther-Meißner-Institut (WMI) will showcase functioning components of a quantum computer on October 3rd, offering visitors a rare glimpse into the hardware driving this emerging field. This display aims to demystify quantum computing by presenting physical elements alongside a collaborative activity where attendees can design and create quantum-themed pin buttons as keepsakes. Its research, supported by EU projects like OpenSuperQPlus100 and QMiCS, focuses on controlling quantum systems at ultra-low temperatures. Dr. Monika Aidelsburger will present “Quantenwelten im Labor – Wie wir einzelne Atome kontrollieren” at 1:30 PM.

The WMI’s roots trace back to 1946, initially operating from barracks in Herrsching before relocating to the Garching campus in 1967 and formally adopting its current name in 1982. This open day is synchronized with the annual “Open Door with the Mouse” action day from the WDR children’s program, broadening the event’s appeal to families and encouraging early engagement with science.

The Garching Research Campus, one of Germany’s largest research hubs, will open its doors to the public, allowing access to facilities and research areas typically closed to visitors. The institute’s scientific directors, Rudolf Gross, Stefan Filipp and Peter Rabl, all hold chairs at the Technical University of Munich, solidifying its ties to academic research and innovation., Garching Research Campus says.

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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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