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QIP 2015 business meeting

Posted on February 20, 2015 by aram

A QIP 2015 epilogue: our notes from the business meeting. See also this post by Kaushik Seshadreesan. Business Meeting Report local organizing committee report Finance: $193,545 – $191,467 = $2,478 profit! registration income: $185,340 refunds, about $3,000 external sponsorships: $30,450, … Continue reading →

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QIP 2015 zombie-blogging, Day 5

Posted on February 16, 2015 by aram

Today’s highlight: an algorithm running in time , also known as “polynomial time” or “efficient”. Joseph Fitzsimons and Thomas Vidick. A multiprover interactive proof system for the local Hamiltonian problem(Plenary Talk) abstract arXiv:1409.0260 Thomas begins by reminding everyone about what … Continue reading →

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QIP 2015 dead-blogging, Day 4

Posted on February 3, 2015 by sflammia

Warning for typical QIP attendees — This first talk may have some implications for the real world Andrea Mari, Vittorio Giovannetti, Alexander S. Holevo, R. Garcia-Patron and N. J. Cerf. Majorization and entropy at the output of bosonic Gaussian channels. … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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