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Category Archives: Simons
The cryptographic leash
This post is meant as a companion to an introductory post I wrote on the blog of Caltech’s IQIM (Institute for Quantum Information and Matter), of which I am a member. The post describes a “summer cluster” on quantum computation … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, QCrypto, Simons
Tagged interactive proofs, qpip, quantum verification
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Quantum PCP conjectures
Last Spring I took part in the Simons Institute’s semester on Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity. The semester was a great success, with an excellent batch of long-term participants and many fruitful interactions. The Institute asked me to write a short “Research … Continue reading
Posted in QPCP, Quantum, Simons
Tagged quantum hamiltonian complexity, quantum PCP, simons institute
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Science funding
Barely back from a workshop organized in Puerto Rico by Ryan O’Donnell, Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz and Elchanan Mossel, and lavishly funded by the Simons foundation, I am greeted on my BART ride home (thanks wifirail) by a NYTimes piece Billionaires With Big Ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Simons
Tagged funding, private donor, science funding, scientific integrity
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Workshop on “Quantum games and Protocols” at the Simons
** Update: videos are now up! ** This past week saw the first of three week-long workshop that will rhythm the semester on quantum Hamiltonian complexity at the Simons institute (I’ll count the boot camp was the zeroth-such workshop). Dorit Aharonov, John Watrous and … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Simons
Tagged qhc semester, quantum crypto, quantum information, simons institute, talks
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Simons bootcamps
Each semester the newly-founded Simons Institute, hosted on the UC Berkeley campus, simultaneously hosts two thematic programs. The first two programs, which took place in the Fall, were onTheoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis and Real Analysis in Computer Science. This Spring two … Continue reading
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Tagged boot camp, Hamiltonian complexity, quantum PCP, simons institute
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