{"id":5126,"date":"2011-10-23T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2011-10-23T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T17:55:36","slug":"dial-m-for-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2011\/10\/23\/dial-m-for-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dial M for Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just recently announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iqi.caltech.edu\/\">Institute for Quantum Information<\/a> at Caltech will be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/article\/13463\">adding an extra letter<\/a>\u00a0to its name. The former IQI will now be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iqim.caltech.edu\/\">Institute for Quantum Information and Matter<\/a>, or IQIM. But it isn&#8217;t the name change that is of real significance, but rather the $12.6 million of funding over the next five years that comes with it!<br \/>\nIn fact, the IQIM is an NSF funded Physics Frontier Center, which means the competition was stiff, to say the least. New PFCs are only funded by the NSF every three years, and are chosen based on &#8220;their potential for transformational advances in the most promising research areas at the intellectual frontiers of physics.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn practice, the new center means that the Caltech quantum info effort will continue to grow and, importantly, it will better integrate and expand on experimental efforts there. It looks like an exciting new chapter for quantum information science at Caltech, even if the new name is harder to pronounce. Anyone\u00a0who wants to become a part of it should check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iqim.caltech.edu\/positions\/index.html\">open postdoc positions<\/a>\u00a0that are now available at the IQIM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just recently announced that Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech will be\u00a0adding an extra letter\u00a0to its name. The former IQI will now be the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, or IQIM. But it isn&#8217;t the name change that is of real significance, but rather the $12.6 million of funding over the next &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2011\/10\/23\/dial-m-for-matter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dial M for Matter&#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":[4,17,53,61,63,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-caltech","category-physics","category-qis-annoucements","category-quantum","category-quantum-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126","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=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}