So how was QIP 2006, peoples? I hope it was cold, because every QIP I’ve been to I freezed my rear end off.
O brave new quantum world!
O brave new quantum world!
So how was QIP 2006, peoples? I hope it was cold, because every QIP I’ve been to I freezed my rear end off.
Indeed: Quantum jester. See how many people you can identify in the recording solely from their laughs.
Wasn’t the same without you Dave. Wasn’t even all that cold. In my talk, I did my best to strike the right balance between profundity and absurdity, but no one can do it like you.
Glad you ask: ’twas cool but not cold. Many of us missed you so i won’t say what a jolly good time had. The big result (imho) and also running gag was Renato Renner’s exponential de Finetti theorem. Oh, and, yes: Scott Aaronson pulled off the quantum jester. Irreproducibly, prodigiously, hilariously, he impersonated the most revered, most serious and most funny researchers of ‘the’ field (including god, if you can believe it). A shame it wasn’t recorded: it might have shattered his (Scott’s) career for good.
See ya in Brisbane…
Yeah, I need to write a blog post about Renner’s exponential de Finettit theorem! Very cool.
…correction to the previous: see (and hear) at shtetl-optimized, 23 jan 2006. cheers!
Main Entry: pro·fun·di·ty
Pronunciation: pr&-‘f&n-d&-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Etymology: Middle English profundite, from Middle French profundité, from Latin profunditat-, profunditas depth, from profundus
1 a : intellectual depth b : something profound or abstruse
I’m thinking that it was the “abstruse” part of the definition that I fit!
By the way, Webster’s gives, as an example of the world abstruse: “the abstruse calculations of mathematicians.” That’s funny.
I don’t know you, and you don’t know me, but regardless, we actually hit upon Paris during a “warm spell” during this year’s unusually cold winter in Europe. Of course, it was cloudy, and the two days where we had about 5 minutes of sunlight were a day before and after the conference. Maybe if QIP keeps being held in January, then it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to stick to the southern hemisphere ;). Of course that would probably suck for the majority of researchers…