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QIP 2015 “live”-blogging, Day 3

Posted on January 24, 2015 by sflammia

We promise we’ll finish posting these soon! Day 3 was only a half day of talks with a free afternoon, and the rainy weather of the first two days finally subsided just in time. Jean-Pierre Tillich Decoding Quantum LDPC Codes … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Liveblogging | 1 Comment

QIP 2015 live-blogging, Day 2

Posted on January 17, 2015 by sflammia

From the team that brought you “QIP 2015 Day 1 liveblogging“, here is the exciting sequel. Will they build a quantum computer? Will any complexity classes collapse? Will any results depend on the validity of the Extended Riemann Hypothesis? Read … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Liveblogging | 1 Comment

QIP 2015 Return of the Live-blogging, Day 1

Posted on January 13, 2015 by aram

Jan 14 update at the end. The three Pontiffs are reunited at QIP 2015 and, having forgotten how painful liveblogging was in the past, are doing it again. This time we will aim for some slightly more selective comments. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Liveblogging | 6 Comments

Your Guide to Australian Slang for QIP Sydney

Posted on January 10, 2015 by sflammia

To everyone that’s attending QIP, welcome to Sydney! Since I’ve already had to clarify a number of the finer points of Australian slang to my fellow attendees, I thought I would solve the general problem and simply post a helpful dictionary that translates some … Continue reading →

Posted in Go Ahead, Waste Your Time | 8 Comments

Should Papers Have Unit Tests?

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Perhaps the greatest shock I’ve had in moving from the hallowed halls of academia to the workman depths of everyday software development is the amount of testing that is done when writing code. Likely I’ve written more test code than … Continue reading →

Posted in Off The Deep End, Programming | 5 Comments

Self-correcting Fractals

Posted on November 26, 2014 by sflammia

A really exciting paper appeared on the arxiv today: A proposal for self-correcting stabilizer quantum memories in 3 dimensions (or slightly less), by Courtney Brell. It gives the strongest evidence yet that self-correcting quantum memories are possible in “physically realistic” three-dimensional … Continue reading →

Posted in Quantum | 1 Comment

A Breakthrough Donation for Computer Science

Posted on November 20, 2014 by sflammia

Lance Fortnow has a post summarizing some of the news affecting the CS community over the past month, including updates on various prizes as well as the significant media attention focusing on physics- and math-related topics such as movies about Turing and … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, Computer Science, Prize | 5 Comments

Goodbye Professor Tombrello

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

This morning I awoke to the horrible news that Caltech Physics Professor Tom Tombrello had passed away. Professor Tombrello was my undergraduate advisor, my research advisor, a mentor, and, most importantly a friend. His impact on me, from my career … Continue reading →

Posted in Caltech, Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self., Teaching | 4 Comments

Sailing Stones: Mystery No More

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

My first research project, my first research paper, was on a perplexing phenomenon: the sliding rocks of Death Valley’s Racetrack playa. Racetrack playa is a large desolate dry lake bed that has one distinguishing feature above and beyond its amazing … Continue reading →

Posted in Geology, Go Ahead, Waste Your Time | 1 Comment

QIP 2015

Posted on June 15, 2014 by sflammia

The website is up for QIP 2015, which will be held this year in beautiful Sydney, Australia. Here is a timeline of the relevant dates: Submission of talks deadline: Sep 12, 2014 Submission of posters deadline: Oct 25, 2014 Decision on talks … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Conferences, QIS Annoucements, Quantum | 3 Comments