Lies, damned lies and …

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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QIP deadlines are up

Just a heads up for all of those wanting to go to QIP in Zurich this year. It seems that the submission deadlines are now up on the website:

Submission deadline for contributed talks: October 22, 2009
Notification of acceptance: November 23, 2009
Submission deadline for posters: December 7, 2009

OK everyone, I guess you’ve got a little over [...]

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AQIS ‘09 – deadline 14th of June

Just a quick post to remind folk that the AQIS ‘09 submission deadline is just around the corner (June 14th at 11:59 p.m. in US Pacific Standard Time).
This year’s AQIS will be held in Nanjing from August 26 – 29.

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QIP 2010 dates announced

The dates for QIP 2010 have been announced – it will take place in Zurich from the 18th to the 22nd of January 2010.
Keep your eyes on the QIP 2010 website for submission and registration info etc.

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The Tricki looks awesome

I just had a look at the Tricki that Tim Gowers has set up, it looks like it is going to be an incredibly useful resource for solving mathsish problems!

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I walked past Royal Albert Hall on my way to work this mornin

This week I’m attending the IMA conference on quantum computing and the complexity of quantum simulation.
Looks like it’s going to be a good conference. Daniel Gottesman is kicking off with a review(ish) talk on “Computationally hard problems in spin systems”…

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Looking for work

Observant readers may have noticed that I have added a few new pages to this blog recently – a “Research” page and a “CV” page. Those of you who have hung around the sciencish blogs enough will realize that the appearance of these sort of pages is normally a pretty clear symptom of someone looking [...]

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Yay! I’ve now been published in a Royal Society journal

Yay! My paper with Dan Shepherd that was previously titled Instantaneous Quantum Computation has been appeared online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A with the title Temporally Unstructured Quantum Computation.
I wonder if any royals read the Proceedings A?
Update: I forgot to add that the published version is roughly 100 bazillion times easier to [...]

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Matt Hastings is guest posting over at Tobias’ place

For those who are into the adiabatic model of quantum computation I suggest going here and having a read.

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Tobias has gone all open sciencish

Yay for Tobias and his new blog!
If you be all quantumish and are a fan of open science then I highly recommend giving it a look. Having worked a lot with Tobias I can say that he has loads of excellent ideas and the right sort of research style to make this blog an extremely [...]

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