Author Archives: aram

Are we ready for Venture Qapital?

Posted on 12/11/2012 by aram

From cnet and via Matt Liefer, comes news of a new venture capital firm, known as The Quantum Wave Fund. According to their website: Quantum Wave Fund is a venture capital firm focused on seeking out early stage private companies … Continue reading →

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QIP schedule up, early registration deadline ending soon

Posted on 11/29/2012 by aram

I’ll try to post something less boring soon, but for now wanted to mention that the schedule for QIP is now online, and that early registration ends on Dec 1.

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QIP 2015??

Posted on 11/28/2012 by aram

The following is a public service announcement from the QIP steering committee. (The “service” is from you, by the way, not the committee.) Have you ever wondered why the Quantum Information Processing conference seems to travel everywhere except to your … Continue reading →

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MIT + postdoc opening

Posted on 11/19/2012 by aram

After 8 years at MIT, and a little over 7 years away, I will return to MIT this January to join the Physics faculty. I love the crazy nerdy atmosphere at MIT, and am really excited about coming back (although … Continue reading →

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QIP 2013 accepted talks, travel grants

Posted on 11/13/2012 by aram

The accepted talk list for QIP 2013 is now online. Thomas Vidick has done a great job of breaking the list into categories and posting links to papers: see here. He missed only one that I’m aware of: Kamil Michnicki’s … Continue reading →

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Victory!

Posted on 11/6/2012 by aram

On this historic occasion, let me take this opportunity to congratulate tonight’s winner: Nate Silver, of the Mathematics Party. No words yet on a concession speech from the opposition. Fans will be pleased to know that Nate is now on … Continue reading →

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21 = 3 * 7

Posted on 10/29/2012 by aram

…with high probability. That joke was recycled, and in recent work, Bristol experimentalists have found a way to recycle photonic qubits to perform Shor’s algorithm using only qubits. (Ok, so actually is was Kitaev who figured this out, as they … Continue reading →

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Rogue Downloader Prosecuted; Rogue Banks Off the Hook

Posted on 9/20/2012 by aram

As a researcher, I can breathe safely posting my papers online, knowing that the federal government will do its best to stop anyone from downloading them in a way that violates a website’s terms of use. According to Wired, Federal … Continue reading →

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