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Reading List: Graph Isomorphism

Warning: this idiosyncratic list of reading material is in no way meant to be comprehensive nor does is it even guaranteed to focus on the most important papers concerning graph isomorphism.  Suggestions for other papers to add to the list are greatly appreciated: leave a comment! The graph isomorphism problem is an intriguing problem. A [...]

Interview With Guifre Vidal

Sciencewatch interview with Guifre Vidal: Apart from enormously stimulating experimental research, which has led to impressive progress in our ability to control quantum systems, thinking about quantum computers has given birth to a new way of looking at quantum mechanical problems, including a new framework and new tools to address strongly correlated quantum many-body systems.

Well at Least it Didn’t Say “FAKENAME”

Received today from a journal publisher who shall not be named: Dear Dr. REALNAME%, You have received this message…

Welcome!

Hello and welcome back to my little neck of timber!  If you’re coming here from scienceblogs, thanks for following me over here!  If your here because you started randomly surfing the internet like the teleportation portion of the PageRank algorithm, well, then, you are and odd duck, but welcome! Not sure where this blog will [...]

A Mathematical Theory of News?

arXiv vs snarXiv

One Unit of Dave

Science V Nature

Bacon, Bacon, Bacon

qBell Labs Press Release

In Praise of Junk – Or Where’s My Quantum Computer



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