{"id":2029,"date":"2008-08-07T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2008-08-07T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:14:00","slug":"happenings-in-the-quantum-world-august-7-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/08\/07\/happenings-in-the-quantum-world-august-7-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Happenings in the Quantum World: August 7, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer school in November, Quantum crypto is to legit to quit, quantum Pagerank, and no prayer in quantum prayer.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An email about a summer school in Australia:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Colleagues<br \/>\nPlease forgive us if you receive this multiple times&#8230;<br \/>\nWe would like to circulate notice of the inaugural 2008 Asher Peres International Summer School in Physics<br \/>\nwhich will take place in Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbor, from 17-22 November 2008 in memory of Professor Asher Peres<br \/>\nThe 2008 school is entitled: From Qubits to Black Holes<br \/>\nand is organised jointly between Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), and the Technion, (Haifa, Israel).<br \/>\nThe 2008 school will cover the Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Gravity and Quantum Information and is aimed at senior undergraduates, honours students and early postgraduate students.<br \/>\nThere are no registration fees and all student room and board is covered by the school for the duration in the scenic location of Chowder Bay.<br \/>\nHowever capacity is limited to a maximum of 40 students.<br \/>\nThe international lecturers at the school include<br \/>\nProfessor Sir Peter Knight<br \/>\nProfessor Artur Ekert (*)<br \/>\nProfessor Christian Kurtsiefer<br \/>\nProfessor Bei-Lok Hu<br \/>\nProfessor Chris Fuchs<br \/>\n(*) to be confirmed.<br \/>\nFor more information please consult<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/web.mac.com\/quests\/PeresSchool\/Welcome.html<br \/>\nAll registrations are made online and the deadline is October 7th<br \/>\nPlease distribute to students who might be interested.<br \/>\nBest Regards<br \/>\nDaniel Terno and Jason Twamley and Ady Mann [Organisers]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Quantum cryptography <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2008-08-vegas-quantum-spookshow-demos-on-the-fly.html\">gets<\/a> its hacker credentials and is demoed at Blackhat, and in the coming days DEFCON.<\/li>\n<li>Can quantum theory be used to understand PageRank better?  <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0807.4325\">0807.4325<\/a><a> says yes.<\/a><\/li>\n<p>  Google dollars plz.<\/p>\n<li>No disrespect to the reverend, but I don&#8217;t think you should put your prayers in quantum theory for answering your prayers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer school in November, Quantum crypto is to legit to quit, quantum Pagerank, and no prayer in quantum prayer.<\/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":[20,64,65,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-quantum-basterdizations","category-quantum-computing","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}