From an article in the Seattle Times on a local UW student competing in the 2007 TopCoder Collegiate Championship: TopCoder is a private company that makes money by selling some of the finished code and matching employers with contestants. The competition is also sponsored by pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, Deutsche Bank and the National Security [...]
The list of contributed talks for QIP 2008 is now available: Invited talks Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University Andris Ambainis, University of Waterloo and University of Latvia Avraham Ben-Aroya, Tel-Aviv university Patrick Hayden, McGill University Oded Regev, Tel-Aviv University Ben Reichardt, California Institute of Technology Renato Renner, Cambridge Falk Unger, CWI, Amsterdam Michael Wolf, Max-Planck-Institute for [...]
Comet Holmes went from seventeenth magnitude to 2.8 magnitude on October 24th. Okay Seattle time to clear up your skies so I can get a view of the sucker.
Am I the only one who thinks Richard Armitage (watch the whole thing at your own sanity’s sake) sounds just like General ‘Buck’ Turgidson from “Dr. Strangeloveor: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”: ? “Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!”
Three strikes… Dear Dr. Bacon, We regret the delay in obtaining a review on your manuscript. The paper has been sent to three referees who have not provided reports. We are now sending to a fourth referee asking that he/she expedite review. As soon as we have additional information, we will advise and thank you [...]
NSF loses power. No, not politcal power silly: electrical power! Speaking of which, this is what writing a grant proposal looks like to me:
Optical quantum information science position in Bristol: Based in the Departments of Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, you will work in the Centre for Quantum Photonics in the area of optical quantum information science. We have a world-leading Centre for Quantum Photonics spanning Physics and Electrical Engineering. This group is active in several EU, [...]
Patrick points me to Working for the Revolution by Freeman Dyson, which is a review of Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Gino Segrè which contains this gem: Theoretical physicists are now divided into two main factions. Those who look forward to another revolution mostly believe that it will grow [...]
New Planet. Closer to it’s star than Earth, but the star is cooler. Gliese 581c here we come!
