The deadline for submissions to QIP 2010 is next week, October 22. Website here
Caltech IQI Postdocs
Postdocs at Caltech’s IQI. Now in the new Annenberg Center (named, of course, after Caltech’s Ann of the Steele tower 🙂 ):
INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Postdoctoral Research Positions
The Institute for Quantum Information at the California Institute of Technology will have postdoctoral scholar positions available beginning in September 2010. Researchers interested in all aspects of quantum information science are invited to apply. The appointment is contingent upon completion of a Ph.D.
Please apply on-line at http://www.iqi.caltech.edu/postdoc_opening.html. Electronic copies of your curriculum vitae, publication list, statement of research interests, and three letters of recommendation are required. The deadline for receipt of all application materials is December 1,
2009.
The California Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Women, Minorities, Veterans and Disabled Persons are encouraged to apply
Quantum Postdocs and Beyond
Well it seems that it is that time of year again when grad students and postdocs begin to think about job applications. Last year I had the great pleasure of going through the process (yet one more time!) so yes, I feel your pain. But, at least on the postdoc side of equation for quantum computing, things don’t look as bad to me as I’ve seen in the past. I’ve already posted about Microsoft Station Q postdocs and the Center for Quantum Information and Control postdocs. Here are a few more to add to the mix.
Continue reading “Quantum Postdocs and Beyond”
Broken Glass Everywhere. If it Ain't About Quantum Money, I Just Don't Care
Note the new location (updated 9/28/09)
The Optimizer is coming to town, which is always fun:
TIME: 1:30-2:30 pm, Tuesday, September 29, 2009
PLACE: CSE 305
SPEAKER: Scott Aaronson (MIT)
ABSTRACT:
Ever since there’s been money, there have been people trying to counterfeit it, and governments trying to stop them. In a remarkable 1969 manuscript, Stephen Wiesner raised the possibility of money whose authenticity would be guaranteed by the laws of quantum physics. However, Wiesner’s money can only be verified by the bank that printed
it — and the natural question of whether one can have secure quantum money that *anyone* can check has remained open for forty years. In this talk, I’ll tell you about progress on the question over the last year.
– I’ll show that no “public-key” quantum money scheme can have security based on quantum physics alone: like in most cryptography, one needs a computational hardness assumption.
– I’ll show that one can have quantum money that remains hard to counterfeit, even if a counterfeiter gains black-box access to a device for checking the money.
– I’ll describe a candidate quantum money scheme I proposed last spring, and how that scheme was broken a few weeks ago by myself, Farhi, Gosset, Hassidim, Kelner, Lutomirski, and Shor.
– I’ll describe a new quantum money scheme we propose in the same work. Our new scheme has the strange property that not even the bank can prepare the same bill twice.
Reference for the first two results: S. Aaronson, “Quantum copy-protection and quantum money,” in Proceedings of CCC’2009, http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/noclone-ccc.pdf. The “AFGHKLS” paper should be posted to the arXiv soon.
The last line makes me ask: has anyone every written a paper with all of the letters of the alphabet for last names (and no duplicate uses!)
New D-Wave CEO?
Hm, looks like D-wave has a new CEO. Not sure when this occurred (?), but a reader sends along an email with an announcement from a recruiting (?) firm:
Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Vern Brownell has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of D-Wave Systems….
Vern Brownell joins D-Wave from Egenera, were he held various executive roles including CEO. Egenera was founded by Mr. Brownell in 2000 based on his experiences as the Chief Technology Officer at Goldman Sachs, where he and his staff of 1,300 were responsible for worldwide technology infrastructure including computing platforms, datacenters, data networking, telecommunications, and trading-floor operations. Prior to his tenure at Goldman, Brownell served in various management and engineering roles at Stratus Computer, Ztel, and Digital Equipment. He holds an MBA degree from Anna Maria College and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Now I have a new goal in life. Make sure I maintain more followers on twitter than the D-wave CEO, @vbrownell! (And hope he didn’t see my tweets today about quantum computing!) But CTO of Goldman Sachs…that’s the big times 🙂
QIP 2010 and CSQ 2010
Two conferences. Renato Renner sends along a note about QIP 2010. The paper submission deadline is one month away:
QIP 2010 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, January 18-22.
The submission deadline for contributed talks is 22 October 2009.
For more information, please see http://www.qip2010.ethz.ch
We look forward to welcoming you to Zurich,
the organizers
Also a conference on superconducting qubits in San Diego:
Please note our conference coming next spring; Coherence in Superconducting Qubits, to be held April 25-28, 2010, in San Diego, CA.
The agenda and registration are described at http://csq.myconferencehost.com/?page=1.
Zurich in winter, San Diego in spring…life must be good for the traveling postdoc.
ICQIT 2009
Any quantum people in the area of Japan in early December might be interested in ICQIT 2009. Submission deadline fast approaching (Sep 30):
The International Conference on Quantum Information and Technology ICQIT2009 will be held at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan from 2nd to 5th December 2009. ICQIT2009 focuses on the following topics:
QKD and quantum networks,
Large Scale QIP and architecture design.
Quantum Information Theory
Quantum Algorithms
Measurement Based QIP
Optical QIP Implementations,
Solid State QIP implementations,
SQUID systems
ICQIT2009 is now open for submissions of papers. The conference will consist of keynote talks, invited talks, contributed talks, and a poster session. Contributors can choose a preferred presentation type from Poster only, or Oral or Poster. A one-page abstract needs to be sent to to icqit [at] qis1.ex.nii.ac.jp by 30th September.
The keynote speakers for the conference will be,
Keith Harrison (HP Labs, Bristol)
Gerard Milburn (University of Queensland)
Miklos Santha (LRI, University of Paris-Sud)
The list of invited speakers will be found online at
www.qis.ex.nii.ac.jp/icqit/index.html
The important dates are
Submission Deadline: 30 September 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 5 October 2009
Registration Deadline: 15 October 2009
THERE IS NO REGISTRATION FEE FOR THIS CONFERENCE, however a conference dinner will be organized at a cost of approximately 5000 Yen (~50 USD) per person.
This conference is co-organized by the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), and is being held in conjunction with the JST-CNRS workshop on Quantum Computation: Theory and Feasibility.
Best Regards,
The Organizing Committee:
Kae Nemoto,
Masahide Sasaki,
Iordanis Kerenidis,
Simon Devitt.
Worldview Manager
Scott Aaronson, Leonid Grinberg, and Louis Wasserman’s “Worldview Manager” is now live at http://projects.csail.mit.edu/worldview/home. It seems that I am not in much conflict over quantum computing
So, damnit, I may be wrong, but at least I’m consistent (the hobgoblin of a little mind, mind you.) Via @cgranade and @mattleifer.
Center for Quantum Information and Control Postdocs
At least three postdoc positions at the University of New Mexico and the University of Arizona’s “Center for Quantum Information and Control.” Here is a pdf ad for the positions.
The Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) is seeking to hire at least three postdoctoral fellows over the next year. CQuIC has research nodes at the University of New Mexico (UNM) under Professors Carlton Caves and Ivan Deutsch and at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona (UA) under Professor Poul Jessen.
Research at CQuIC is focused on quantum information, quantum control, quantum
metrology, and quantum optics. The theoretical program at UNM addresses topics in all
of these areas. The experimental program at UA seeks to implement ideas from quantum
information and quantum control in laser-cooled neutral-atom systems. CQuIC postdocs
are expected to take an active interest in both theoretical and experimental projects at the
Center.
A successful applicant must have a PhD in physics, optical sciences, or a related discipline. Applicants should submit applications to cquic [change this to an at] unm.edu; the applicant should state whether he/she is applying for a theoretical postdoc at UNM or an experimental postdoc at UA. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and a statement of research accomplishments and plans, and the applicant should arrange to have three letters of recommendation submitted to the same e-mail address.
Applications will be processed as they are received. For full consideration in the first round of hiring, a complete application should be received by October 31, 2009. Applications will continue to be reviewed till all positions are filled.
Hm, experimental or theoretical postdocs in the southwest. Which one is red and which one is green?