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I design quantum computers @physicsstrath.bsky.social and @ccp-qc.bsky.social https://kendon.info/viv
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UBC physics is hiring up to two assistant professors in quantum information. Looks like an excellent opportunity---great department, great city, etc. phas.ubc.ca/open-positio...

Emboldened employers have used punitive deductions to intimidate workers out of their ability to organise for better working conditions. It's time government clears up that grey area and chooses the side of workers. Join us on Tue 25 Feb, 1pm to talk about freedom from detriment. Register for link:

Eugene from #tenstorrent shares #RISCV for #HPC #AI and #ML at #RISCV for #HPC workshop, and some of the exciting planned technologies to lower the cost of compute, along with a live demo

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US … UK. Doesn’t matter where you work. Join your union, and be active about it!

🔔 AAUP is a 110-year-old org that stands with faculty in tough times. We represent faculty voices on #academicfreedom, shared governance, + tenure. With all the attacks on #HigherEd, why stand alone when you can stand together with others across your campus, state, and country?

If these *hundreds* of people targeted by the employer take VS, they are barred *forever* from working for the uni, except in special cases as approved by HR after 3 yrs. The economic fallout in the county will be devastating.

Fascinating to hear Ilan Gur and Laura Kuenssberg discuss an £81m ARIA programme to anticipate tipping points, critical thresholds where small changes can trigger abrupt shifts in the global climate system www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...

“Before Noether’s theorem, the principle of conservation of energy was shrouded in mystery,” the physicist and mathematician Feza Gürsey wrote in 1983. “… Noether’s simple and profound mathematical formulation did much to demystify physics.” https://buff.ly/414iuVL

Here is the latest edition of our #APCNews newsletter, reflecting on community-centred connectivity, developments of free/libre and open source software and more. crm.apc.org/civicrm/mail... Don't forget to subscribe for the latest updates. Scroll to the bottom of apc.org to sign up.

Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

In arxiv.org/abs/2407.17563, we outlined a q. circuit for projecting onto the antisymmetric subspace of n qudits (see Figure 3 therein). We discussed an application to estimating Schmidt rank (see Section IV-A therein). What are other applications of this circuit? What else is it good for?

Signed 👇 "The letter expresses my deep concerns at the ongoing failure of the Royal Society to recognise that Elon Musk FRS has acted in contravention of its own code of conduct"

What is the value of the Internet Governance Forum? "There wasn't a place in the past for the conversations that take place at the IGF": vimeo.com/872037500 To know more about this key space and how to engage with it, join our #theigfwewant campaign: theigfwewant.net #IGF2025 #InternetGovernance

Welcome’s submission to the UK Spending Review: 📈 Increase R&D intensity - invest £22bn in R&D in 2026/27 and set a longer-term ambition to become the most R&D intensive economy in the G7 🏫 Fix the funding environment for UK universities to support their financial sustainability

I’m proud to have played a (small, I wrote the annealing bits) part in this comprehensive review on benchmarking and metrics for quantum computing arxiv.org/abs/2502.06717

Not just a comprehensive review of metrics and benchmarking for quantum computing, the launch of a living resource including software for characterising and comparing quantum computing hardware. Led by Ivan Rungger @ NPL (UK National Physical Lab).

Andrew Jackson, Animesh Datta Improved Accreditation of Analogue Quantum Simulation and Establishing Quantum Advantage https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06463

The #FOCS2025 website is up! Featuring a Call for Papers and important dates: focs.computer.org/2025/ ⏰ Deadline: April 3, 2025 (8pm ET) ⏰ Notification: July 8, 2025 🗓️ Conference: December 14–17, 2025 Content and info will be added as it becomes available (workshops, activities, travel support).

A great opportunity to come and lead #HPC activities @epcc.bsky.social , there are lots of exciting things happening at the moment and @epcc.bsky.social is widely recognised as a world-leading #HPC centre.

10000 planned redundancies in UK universities (so far). Ten. Thousand.

Julia King, chair of the @houseoflords.parliament.uk science committee, has not pulled her punches when writing to ministers on visa barriers to scientists - particularly those early in their careers The UK's strict and expensive immigration policy is "an act of national self-harm" she says

#UCUelections it is time to vote for your reps! Have you posted yours yet?

This webinar, presented by Alin Elena and Federica Zanca from STFC Daresbury Laboratory, discusses work undertaken in PSDI pathfinder 5 which focuses on transforming data to knowledge through the construction of workflows.

🚀Big news! The #YAO2025 invited speaker lineup is now live on our website!🎉🎉 Check out the amazing researchers joining us in Innsbruck this July. Don't miss out—registration is still open! 🔗: yao.iqoqi.at #QuantumScience #AtomOptics @iqoqi.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Astro Bloc opening for the olliam at SWG3 - some great high energy fiddle playing

"A people-centred and development-oriented inclusive information society". This vision is even more relevant now than it was 20 years ago. Read the cross-community statement on #WSISProcess, the #InternetGovernanceForum and the #GlobalDigitalCompact: www.apc.org/node/40497

pressure drop overnight: storm Eowyn has arrived in Glasgow ... >70 mph wind gusts expected until 7 pm - stay inside folks if you are in this! @metoffice.bsky.social

Can anyone suggest examples of short, 4-ish pages, physics papers that are accessible for physics undergrads? This is for a workshop on how academic reading, where I want students to learn how broad-strokes reading

PSDI has had 3 projects. The current project, Phase 2, is ongoing. Know more about them ➡️ www.psdi.ac.uk/background/ #psdi #psdiproject

Get the best out of ARCHER2 with the HPE "Using ARCHER2 Efficiently" course. This comprehensive 3-day workshop is designed to provide you with the knowledge & skills to optimise your applications for ARCHER2, the UK national supercomputing service. https://buff.ly/4jkpLb1

Roberta Zambrini (@ifisc.uib-csic.es) telling us about quantum reservoir computing at day 4 of QSQW 2025 www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/

JUNIQ Spring School on Quantum Computing 2025. "The school emphasizes hands-on experience in developing and implementing algorithms on both gate-based devices and quantum annealers", organized by Jüllich Supercomputing Centre www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/s...

Claudia Benedetti (Milano) telling us about using genetic algorithms with quantum walks to determine the graph structure of networks day 3 of QSQW 2025 in Naples www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/

This is an excellent scheme for ECRs wanting to do great science in UK. 🧪

Eva Marie Graaf (Imperial) telling us about non-Hermitian Bloch oscillations at QSQW 2025 www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/ on day two

Introduction to PSDI Metadata, slides presented by Dr Aileen Day. Find all the slides here: zenodo.org/records/1460... #PSDI #datamanagement #metadata

Some great PhD opportunities @epcc.bsky.social working at the intersection between #exascale #supercomputing and the environment

Peng Xue introducing her talk on non-Hermitian quantum walks opening day 2 of QSQW 2025 in Naples www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/

Many of you don't know much about @optica.bsky.social #OpticaBICOP2024. I have just attended my second BICOP in London and it is getting more and more solid in terms of science and crowds (as well as its receptions 🍷🥂🍻)! See you there next time! @roelbaets.bsky.social

Mandi, Jemma, @jbennett107.bsky.social Lara, Steph, @gayladygrey.bsky.social and me at QSQE 2025 www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/ in Naples - Mount Vesuvius in the background.

Quantum Physics and Logic is in Varna this year: qpl2025.github.io