{"id":10198,"date":"2013-09-26T09:15:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=10198"},"modified":"2013-09-26T09:15:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:15:05","slug":"important-upcoming-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2013\/09\/26\/important-upcoming-deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Important upcoming deadlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our ongoing service to the quantum information community, we here at the Quantum Pontiff would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t remind you of important upcoming deadlines. We all know that there is a certain event coming in February of 2014, and that we had better prepare for it; the submission deadline is fast approaching.<br \/>\nTherefore, let me take the opportunity to remind you that the deadline to submit to the special issue of the journal <em>Symmetry<\/em> called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/symmetry\/special_issues\/physics-matrices\">Physics based on two-by-two matrices<\/a>&#8221; is 28 February 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Articles based on two-by-two matrices are invited. &#8230;\u00a0It is generally assumed that the mathematics of this two-by-two matrix is well known. Get the eigenvalues by solving a quadratic equation, and then diagonalize the matrix by a rotation. This is not always possible. First of all, there are two-by-two matrixes that cannot be diagonalized. For some instances, the rotation alone is not enough for us to diagonalize the matrix. It is thus possible to gain a new insight to physics while dealing with these mathematical problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, for one, am really looking forward to this special issue. And lucky for us, it will be open access, with an article processing charge of only 500 Swiss Francs. That&#8217;s just 125 CHF per entry of the matrix! Maybe we&#8217;ll gain deep new insights about such old classics as $latex \\begin{pmatrix} 1 &amp; 0 \\\\ 0 &amp; 1 \\end{pmatrix}$, or tackle the troublesome and non-normal beast, $latex \\begin{pmatrix} 0 &amp; 1 \\\\ 0 &amp; 0 \\end{pmatrix}$. Who knows? Please put\u00a0any rumors you have about great new 2&#215;2 matrix results in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our ongoing service to the quantum information community, we here at the Quantum Pontiff would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t remind you of important upcoming deadlines. We all know that there is a certain event coming in February of 2014, and that we had better prepare for it; the submission deadline is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2013\/09\/26\/important-upcoming-deadlines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Important upcoming deadlines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics-bastardizations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}