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It was the summer of 2008. I was 22 years old, and it was my second week working in the crude oil and natural gas options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX.) My head was throbbing after two consecutive weeks of disorientation. It was like being born into a new world, but without [...]
Faculty Lunch and Discussion Date Speaker Location June 3 Xie Chen 114 East Bridge May 13 Dave Hsieh 114 East Bridge April 29 Jason Alicea 114 East Bridge April 15 Daniel Silevitch B157 West Bridge February 26 Alexei Kitaev 114 East Bridge February 12 Rana Adhikari 114 East Bridge January 29 Linda Ye 114 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Transforming the STEM Pipeline into a River The traditional metaphor of the “leaky pipeline” tracks the number of students entering the educational system and emphasizes points at which women and minority students leave the system. IQIM is working to increase diversity on our campus and more broadly in STEM by encouraging a [...]
Faculty, Topological Quantum Physics
University of New Mexico, IQIM Scholar Alumna
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2018 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. Date Speaker Talk Title & Link to Abstract January 29, [...]
Walter Burke Editor's Note: Yesterday and today, Caltech is celebrating the inauguration of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics. John Preskill made the following remarks at a dinner last night honoring the board of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation. This is an exciting night for me and all of us at Caltech. Tonight [...]