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Featured Alumni Our goal with this listing is to provide details about a person’s first position after leaving IQIM. If you have additional information you would like to include, please send an email to marcia.brown@caltech.edu. Please scroll down to view a complete list of IQIM's Postdoc and Graduate Student alumni. [...]
2019 IQI Seminars IQI: Institute for Quantum Information Weekly Seminars The IQI Seminar Series provides an opportunity for colleagues in the research community to present recent work. Unless otherwise noted, seminars are offered on Tuesdays at 3:00 pm in 107 Annenberg. Abstracts for the 2019 Seminars can be viewed here. Date [...]
The countdown had begun. In ten days, I’d move from Florida, where I’d spent the summer with family, to Caltech. Unfolded boxes leaned against my dresser, and suitcases yawned on the floor. I was working on a paper. Even if I’d turned around from my desk, I wouldn’t have seen the stacked books and folded [...]
Faculty Lunch and Discussion Date Speaker Location April 29 Jason Alicea 114 East Bridge April 15 Daniel Silevitch B157 West Bridge January 29 Linda Ye 114 East Bridge February 12 Rana Adhikari 114 East Bridge February 26 Alexei Kitaev 114 East Bridge Date Speaker Location December 4 Oskar Painter 114 East Bridge November [...]
Physicists are not known for finesse. “Even if it cost us our funding,” I’ve heard a physicist declare, “we’d tell you what we think.” Little wonder I irked the porter who directed me toward central Cambridge. The University of Cambridge consists of colleges as the US consists of states. Each college has a porter’s lodge, [...]
2019 IQIM Seminars IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminars Archive The IQIM Weekly Postdoc/Grad Student Seminar is a student-run series focused on sharing work done across the IQIM group. The Friday gathering also offers a chance to interact with other research groups in informal discussions. If you are interesed in presenting, please [...]
The night before defending my Masters thesis, I ran out of shampoo. I ran out late enough that I wouldn’t defend from beneath a mop like Jack Sparrow’s; but, belonging to the Luxuriant Flowing-Hair Club for Scientists (technically, if not officially), I’d have to visit Shopper’s Drug Mart. The author’s unofficially Luxuriant [...]
I am a theoretical physicist at University of California, Berkeley. Last month, I attended a very interesting conference organized by Foundamental Questions Institute (FQXi) in Puerto Rico, and presented a talk about making predictions in cosmology, especially in the eternally inflating multiverse. I very much enjoyed discussions with people at the conference, where I was invited [...]
Current and Past Visitors Name Affiliation Dates Host Office Philip Moll Max Planck Institute April 14-19 Ye Bridge Adam Wills University of Cambridge April 5-9 Preskill Annenberg Raz Firanko Technion March 26 - April 3 Brandao Annenberg Jeongwan Haah Microsoft March 11-14 Xie Chen Bridge Zhenhuan Liu Tsinghua University March 10-16 Andreas [...]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of my first publication. In 1964, when we were eleven-year-old fifth graders, my best friend Mace Rosenstein and I launched The Pres-stein Gazette, a not-for-profit monthly. Though the first issue sold well, the second issue never appeared. Front page of the inaugural issue of the Pres-stein Gazette. Faded [...]