On July 15, 2021, Science in Parallel launched a six-episode season celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program. After five years, 45 episodes and 55 guests, we're celebrating our coverage of computational collaboration and creativity, exploring research on energy, medicine, artificial intelligence, quantum science and more.

• Sarah Webb: Science in Parallel's host
• Anda Trifan: Senior Principal Scientist, GSK
• Amanda Randles: Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
• Anubhav Jain: Chemist/Staff Scientist/Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Danilo Perez: Ph.D. student at New York University
• Ian Foster: Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago, and Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
• Sunita Chandrasekaran: Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
• Quentarius Moore: Software Development Engineer, AMD

Recently four alumni of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) met and discussed quantum science and quantum computing. They also shared how the DOE CSGF helped their careers and their advice for new fellows and other early career computational scientists. To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the DOE CSGF, we've included their answers here as a bonus episode. We hope their insights will help other researchers deepen their careers.

• Jacob Bringewatt: Assistant Professor of Physics at the U.S. Naval Academy
• Grace Johnson: Senior Product Manager, NVIDIA
• Alicia Magann : Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
• Dylan Sim: Senior Quantum Applications Architect, PsiQuantum

Quantum computing involves collaboration and interdisciplinarity, the meeting of minds from different perspectives to solve problems where their expertise overlaps. This episode does a version of that with audio, bringing together insider insights from four quantum researchers across industry, academia and the national labs. They discuss research areas including fundamental quantum mechanics, algorithms and calibration and the human and network connections that will be needed to build utility-scale quantum computers.

All four guests are alumni of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program, which supports this podcast.

You'll meet:

• Jacob Bringewatt: Assistant Professor of Physics at the U.S. Naval Academy
• Grace Johnson: Senior Product Manager, NVIDIA
• Alicia Magann : Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
• Dylan Sim: Senior Quantum Applications Architect, PsiQuantum