Abstract: Quantum computation presents the opportunity to solve questions in nuclear physics which appear inaccessible to classical computation due to sign problems such as the viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma and the equation of state of neutron stars. In order to take advantage of this new resource, a number of theoretical and computational hurdles needed to addressed. In the the last three years, substantial progress has been made in a number of theoretical directions alongside hardware improvements. In this talk, I will discuss the recent research being performed in quantum field theory and outstanding questions that require our attention going forward, focusing on digitization of lattice gauge theories and how to measure observables that would demonstrate practical quantum advantage.