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The elementary school I attended hosted an annual book fair, and every year I went with my mother to browse. I would check out the sports books first, to see whether there were any books about baseball I had not already read (typically, no). There was also a small table of science books, and in [...]
Faculty, IQIM Affiliate
First slide, viewed on my laptop. I'm lazy. The only reason I ever do anything is that sometimes in a weak moment I agree to do something, and after that I don't have the nerve to back out. And that's how I happened to give the introductory lectures leading off the 12th Canadian [...]
Faculty, Quantum Information, Quantum Dynamics
Faculty, IQIM Affiliate
Last Friday the 13th was a lucky day for those who love physics --- The online html version of Volume 1 of the Feynman Lectures on Physics (FLP) was released! Now anyone with Internet access and a web browser can enjoy these unique lectures for free. They look beautiful. Mike Gottlieb at Caltech on [...]
Damn, it sure takes a long time for light to travel to the Pegasus galaxy. If only quantum teleportation enabled FTL Stargates… I was hoping to post this earlier, but a heavy dose of writer’s block set in (I met a girl, and no, this blog didn’t help — but [...]
Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series The Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series provides an opportunity for colleagues in the research community to present recent work. Seminars are currently held Wednesdays at 11 am. We are offering a combination of online and in-person talks. Seminar speakers are coordinated by Aleksander Kubica, AWS, and John [...]
Last week, a journey began to find the solution to a problem I could not solve as a seventeen year-old boy. That problem became an obsession of mine during the last days of the International Math Olympiad of 1997, the days when I also met the first girl I ever kissed. At the time, I [...]
2021 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 online on Tuesdays. Visit qse.caltech.edu for a list of all upcoming talks related to Quantum Science and Engineering. [...]