This is rivalry week
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Funky Friday
Johnny Chung Lee has some cool videos up about wiimote tacking mods and…..more.
Tell me which of these is stranger:
or
?
SQuinT abstract, registration, hotel deadlines
A reminder from Ivan for those who want to attend SqUinT
Dear SQuInTers,
Please remember that abstract submission for contributed talks and posters are due in one week, Nov. 26.
http://panda.unm.edu/SQuInT/contribute.php
Registration payment deadline — Dec. 12.
http://panda.unm.edu/SQuInT/register.php
Hotel reservation deadline — Jan. 19.
http://panda.unm.edu/SQuInT/local.php
Letter to an Older Scientist
If only I were Michael J. Fox, a letter I would send back in time.
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Everything and Nothing
Over at Uncertain Principles, the uncertainty father has a couple of posts up about parallel universes the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory. Which reminded me of a rant I’ve been needing to write (sorry a bit of technical jargon to follow.)
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Hours
Observations on time.
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QIP 2009 Registration Now Open
Registration for QIP 2009 is now open:
QIP 2009 — 12th WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING –
Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. January 12-16, 2009.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN at http://qipworkshop.org/
Deadline for special conference hotel rates: December 1st.
Quantum Information Processing is the recasting of computer
science in a quantum mechanical framework. QIP 2009 is the twelfth
workshop on theoretical aspects of quantum computing, quantum
cryptography and quantum information theory in a series which
started in Aarhus in 1998. QIP 2009, like its previous editions,
will feature invited talks, contributed talks and a poster session.
While the deadline for paper submissions has passed, poster submissions are still open.
Submission deadline for posters: December 1, 2008.
Acceptance notification for posters: December 8, 2008.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Andrew Childs (IQC, Waterloo)
Avinatan Hassidim (Jerusalem)
Matt Hastings (Los Alamos)
Charles Marcus (Harvard)
Lluis Masanes (IPS, Barcelona)
Graeme Smith (IBM TJ Watson)
STEERING COMMITTEE:
Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University)
Cris Moore (UNM/SFI) (Chair)
John Preskill (Caltech)
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (TIFR, Mumbai)
Renato Renner (ETH Zurich)
Peter Shor (MIT)
John Watrous (Waterloo)
Andreas Winter (Bristol)
Ronald de Wolf (CWI, Amsterdam).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Hans Briegel (University of Innsbruck)
Harry Buhrman (CWI, Amsterdam)
Wim van Dam (UCSB)
Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute)
Aram Harrow (Bristol)
Patrick Hayden (McGill)
Richard Jozsa (Bristol) (Chair)
Julia Kempe (Tel Aviv)
Manny Knill (NIST)
Andrew Landahl (University of New Mexico)
Debbie Leung (IQC Waterloo)
Keiji Matsumoto (NII Tokyo)
Ben Reichardt (Waterloo)
Alex Russell (University of Connecticut)
Barbara Terhal (IBM)
Frank Verstraete (University of Vienna)
LOCAL ORGANIZERS:
Howard Barnum (LANL)
Jim Harrington (LANL)
Andrew Landahl (University of New Mexico) (Chair)
Cris Moore (University of New Mexico / Santa Fe Institute)
Jon Yard (LANL)
So I Decided To Simulate a Universe
xkcd is just fantastic, of course. “A Bunch of Rocks”:
iPhone 5 Pounds of Bacon
- Engadget picks up on the bacon theme, a bacon iphone case:
You can buy one for your favorite vegetarian for only 25 euro. - In other bacon news, five pounds?!?!
Halifax Off A Bit
I’m in Halifax, Nova Scotia…eh. For some reason they have a parade at night in November with floats containing Santa and reindeer (obligatory crappy cell phone picture to follow):
Yeah, what the hell?
Interesting conference, I’m attending. I haven’t been at a conference in ages where disagreed with so many of the talks!
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