{"id":1812,"date":"2008-02-01T12:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2008-02-01T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T19:10:45","slug":"happenings-in-the-quantum-world-february-12008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/02\/01\/happenings-in-the-quantum-world-february-12008\/","title":{"rendered":"Happenings in the Quantum World: February 1,2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado State scores Keck money, D-Wave scores venture money, QICIQ 2008, Reversible computation tutorial, and a review of &#8220;Quantum Hoops.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Keck Foundation has given some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.colostate.edu\/Release\/3524\">dinero<\/a> to Colorado State for quantum computing research:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The primary goal of the research program is to demonstrate laser cooling and trapping of a single silicon atom.  Then, on demand, researchers will ionize the atom and deliver it to the desired qubit location with nanometer accuracy, said Siu Au Lee, a professor of physics at CSU and principal investigator for the program. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>D-Wave has closed a $17 million dollar series C round of financing.  Will a series D round be needed for D-Wave?  (Sorry couldn&#8217;t resist.)<\/li>\n<li>A conference in Queensland: Quantum Information and Control In Queensland &#8212; QICIQ.  Website <a href=\"http:\/\/quantum.info\/cairns\/\">here<\/a>.  Abstract deadline is listed as &#8220;17 Mar 2008,&#8221; which I think means March 17, 2008.  What pretty pictures.  I am jealous.<\/li>\n<li>Not quite quantum, but <a href=\"http:\/\/strangepaths.com\/reversible-computation\/2008\/01\/20\/en\/\">here<\/a> is a nice tutorial on reversible computation.\n<\/li>\n<li>A review of &#8220;Quantum Hoops.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado State scores Keck money, D-Wave scores venture money, QICIQ 2008, Reversible computation tutorial, and a review of &#8220;Quantum Hoops.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[2,20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-computer-science","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}