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Lies, damned lies and …

Posted in Bristol, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Science 2.0 on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

SciRate stats.
A few days back Dave did some analysis on papers that were highly scited on SciRate in the past 12 months. He examined papers that had more than 10 scitations and tried to group them by region.
Papers that had multiple co-authors were split between regions and if an author had multiple affiliations between different [...]

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So long and thanks for all the chips!

Posted in Bristol, Brizzle, life, travel on August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

It’s been a really long time since I last posted here. Mostly, that’s because in the last few months I’ve been leading a rather nutzoid existence.
Some time back I posted that my contract in Bristol was ending and I was looking for work. Well, I went grant and postdoc hunting and eventually I decided to [...]

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Congratulations Dr Will

Posted in Bristol, Math on March 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Yay! Will Matthews is now Dr Will Matthews. Congratulations Will!

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A random new paper

Posted in Bristol, Computer Science, Math, Physics on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, seeing as I work in the Bristol QI thoeory group I guess it was only a matter of time before I was an author on a paper which uses tricks involving random quantum states.
Below is the abstract for this new paper that I’ve written together with Caterina Mora and Andreas Winter.
Are random pure states [...]

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Where can I watch the election count bleg

Posted in American election 2008, Beer, Bristol, Brizzle on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Help! Are there any pubs in Bristol following the US election count tomorrow night?
Alternatively is anyone having a party that will have wifi and cable news?

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Final day of the Spring School and Spring has sprung

Posted in Bristol, Brizzle, Computer Science, Math, Physics, life on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As I mentioned in the Weakly Abstract post yesterday I’m currently attending the Quantum Information Processing Spring School here in Bristol.
One of the cool things about this meeting has been the venue. See that photo in the header of my blog? Well, the school is being hosted at the Burwall’s Centre for Continuing Education which [...]

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Weakly Abstract: February 11 – February 15

Posted in Bristol, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Science 2.0, Weakly Abstract on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It’s time for the second installment of the Weakly Abstract and I can already tell that this is going to be a hell of a job to get through every week. The last week saw some fantastic papers hit the quant-ph arXiv, here’s the Weakly Abstract shortlist:

Stephen Jordan and Edward Farhi, Perturbative Gadgets at Arbitrary [...]

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About the header photo

Posted in Beer, Bristol, Coffee, life on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The image in the header at the moment is a photo of the Clifton Suspension Bridge which I took last Autumn. Bristol was a pretty fabulous place during Autumn. Lots of clear days and colour in the trees.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge straddles Avon Gorge which is adjacent to the suburb of Clifton. Apparently the bridge [...]

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