My very favorite conference, the 9th anual SQuInT worshop, is going to be held at Caltech in February. Whoop, we can have quantum margaritas! Here is the announcement: The Ninth Annual Workshop of Southwest Quantum Information and Technology (SQuInT) with be held on the Caltech campus, Pasadena CA, Februrary 16-18, 2007. Invited Speakers: Brian DeMarco [...]
University of Waterloo moves one step closer to taking over the quantum world and wins a 18 million dollar grant. Even in Canadian dollars thats a lot of moolah. Congrats to the Waterlooans, who, it seems will be getting a new centre (which is something like a “center” but might also be a lookout.)
A workshop in the beautiful Pyrenees anyone? Can life get any better for a quantum computing scientist than spending time in the mountains doing quantum information science? BENASQUE 2007 Dear Colleague, We are pleased to inform you that following a very successful editions of Benasque 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2005 we are organizing another workshop [...]
I just noticed that the project to supply the arxiv as a single file has moved beyond covering hep-th and now includes quant-ph and gr-qc. Sweet! Closer and closer to all of physics on my harddrive.
Okay, so the title’s a bit harsh, but this PRL by Starkman and Trotta (Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 201301 (2006) ) is an interesting read.
John Cramer, inventor of the transcational interpretation of quantum theory (not to be confused with transactions in software or hardware, although you may be surprised to learn that they aren’t totally unrelated! ) is apparently going to try (here at UW) to see if there is any juice behind his interpretation by looking for possible [...]
Michael Bremner writes that registration for IQING 5 is now open (new website: http://iqoqi003.uibk.ac.at/users/x22440/IQING5) The fifth Informal Quantum INformation Gathering (IQING 5) is taking place in Innsbruck on April 11 – 14 2007. IQING 5 will bring together young researchers working in the field of quantum information science so that they can discuss their research [...]
Tomorrow I’m heading down to Portland, Oregon to give a talk at Reed College. What, you’ve never heard of Reed? Shame on you! Why should you have heard of it? Because it produces an astounding number of excellent students who go on to graduate school. In fact the leading institutions for producing undergraduates who go [...]
Somewhere along the line I missed that Susan Loepp and William Wootters’ book on quantum cryptography, quantum computation, and quantum error correction had been published. Protecting Information: From Classical Error Correction to Quantum Cryptography by Loepp and Wootters. Wootters (two o’s two t’s!) is among my personal heros, so I’m ashamed at having missed this [...]
And now for something a little different Yeah I’m growing tired of complaining about fault-tolerant haters too This article in the New York Times highlights concerns about math education here in the great state of Washington. Money quote: In part, the math wars have grown out of a struggle between professional mathematicians, who say too [...]
