9am - 11:59pm
Monday 20 April - Monday 27 April 2026
Surrey Cheers Quantum Competition
All students are invited to enter our slogan competition!
Click the link to find out more and enter. With high street vouchers up for grabs, winners and prizes will be showcased at our final Surrey Speaks Quantum event taking place on Wednesday 6 May!
The competition will close at 23.59 on Monday 27 April and our adjudication panel will announce the winners and send them an email by Monday 4 May. Winners will be invited to receive their prizes and certificate at the finale of the Surrey Speaks Quantum public lecture series, which will be held on the 6th May. If the winner is unable to attend the event they can nominate someone else to collect on their behalf, or collect their prize from the School of Mathematics and Physics any time after 6 May.
Free
University of Surrey
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Surrey
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Surrey Cheers Quantum Competition
The School of Mathematics & Physics and the Quantum Sciences Research Group are delighted to announce the prize-winners for the Surrey Cheers Quantum Competition.
All entries were evaluated by an interdisciplinary Panel, who made the final selection of the winning slogans. The Panel was impressed by the high quality of all submissions. Criteria used for the selection of the prizes were based on the wide-ranging significance that quantum physics can have on our future, in terms of its technological applications, of the resulting fundamental understanding of the laws of nature and of the Universe, and of its philosophical and societal repercussions. For these reasons the Panel agreed to the following selection of winners, as best reflecting this broad impact.
First prize
Sudarson Karmaker: The Quantum future will turn today’s impossible into tomorrow’s everyday reality
The Panel felt that this slogan grasps well the expectation that quantum physics will revolutionise the world of the future. The slogan captures the profound impact that fundamental understanding of the quantum laws of nature will have in practical terms on our lives tomorrow, when applications nowadays deemed impossible will have become part of our daily lives.
Second prize
Shomique Hayat: The Quantum Future is the universe admitting it was never only one story
Here the slogan refers to one of the most fascinating pillars of quantum mechanics, the so-called superposition principle. In the same way as a quantum particle can go from one point in space to another one by following simultaneously many different paths, the Universe itself might one day revel itself as many stories happening at once. The existence of multiple universes remains to be seen, but certainly the conjecture is fascinating.
Third prize
Devraj Roy: The Quantum Future is rewriting the code of reality
This slogan invites us all to think about the philosophical impact that quantum physics can have on our perception of reality. The very definition of reality, somewhat coded in our human perspective and largely based on our common experience, may need to be rediscussed, in line with the counter-intuitive nature of quantum physics. How can we make sense of a quantum object to be capable of being here and there at the same time? Will our perception of what is real change in the future, and if so, how?
Congratulations to all Winners!
Panel Members:
- Vanessa Bellringer – Media Officer (FEPS)
- Yuni Kim – Strategic Research Development Manager (Research, Innovation & Impact)
- Bran Nicol – Professor of English Literature (School of Arts, Humanities, and Creative Industries) & Academic Lead Research Culture
- Andrea Rocco – Associate Professor in Physics and Mathematical Biology (FEPS/FHMS)