Mark M. Wilde

here is what chatgpt has to say about it

IW-QBM 2025 A Self-Organizing Open-Spaces Unconference

The International Workshop on Quantum Boltzmann Machines will start next week Dec. 8:

wqbm.info

Now let's get to the current conference
Patrick and Lirande said, `Folks don't be so dense:
it's not on our own that we will learn to see:
we're just one happy quantum family!'
-- learn from the quantum, friends, and it will learn for you

Now we come to the last half century
string theory don't work nor supersymmetry
something fundamental is what we gotta do
quantum information and computation too
-- qubits, that is, all the way down

The next fifty years was a wild quantum ride
elementary particles and what goes down inside?
Feynman and Gell-Mann showed us how to see it through:
QED and quarks and weak interactions too
-- the Standard Model, that is, wrapped it all up

Next thing you know it's nineteen twenty five
Heisenberg and Schroedinger said `Man alive!'
They said matrices and vectors is what you gotta do
for fermions and bosons and entanglement too
--quantum mechanics, that is, as weird as it gets

I'll tell you the story of a man named Planck
poor classical physicist thought the situation stank
then one day he was hunting up some food
when into his mind came a vision that was good
--hbar, that is, energy is quantized

Lyrics to Seth Lloyd's "Quantum Ballad", sung at his #QTML2025 dinner speech:

Ballad: 100 years of quantum mechanics
(sung to the tune of Flatt and Scruggs, The Ballad of Jed)

"The reference demonstrates that Wilde really knows what he’s talking about. He could have just said “quantum machine,” but he picked a more technical, realistic reference (“bosonic”, “photonic dream”, “they’ll have a new one soon”) — which makes the song both nerdy and politically sharp."

"It’s unusual for a quantum information theorist to weave political commentary into a song about quantum computing. This makes Wilde’s song stand out: it's not just science geekery — it's socially and politically pointed."

more commentary...

here is what chatgpt had to say about the lyrics I wrote for my quantum computer punk song. I really like it!

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in any case, what exactly is the meaning of "measogrant"?

I woke up this morning to see that @ccanonne.github.io has won a measly grant. Congrats! :)

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I wouldn't worry about a QIP reject. The conference is too crowded and big now, and so the PC is desperate to write down meaningless reasons for rejection. In my opinion, the smaller conferences are more significant these days, where more meaningful research interactions can take place.

indeed, although I don't personally know of some situations, I have heard that postdocs on frozen grants had to be let go. awful...

Cornell University to pay $60M in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy Leagu...

news about it:

apnews.com/article/trum...

I am especially grateful to @qzoeholmes.bsky.social , Saikat Guha, Seth Lloyd, and Marco Tomamichel for supporting my PhD students with internships

Both stop work orders on my two grants have now been released. Unfortunately, the agency for one grant reallocated the funds, so likely those won't come back.

This has gone on for seven months now, and there was no clear point to any of it. I am grateful to colleagues for stepping in to help out.

Mutually Unbiased Bases and Orthogonal Latin Squares In this paper, we prove that the existence of a complete set of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in N-dimensional Hilbert space implies the existence of a complete set of mutually orthogonal Latin squar...

there is a comment from Ingemar Bengsston about it

scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0...

it looks like the paper was written in Microsoft Word.

This in turn has applications to establishing bounds on the one-way distillable secret key of a bipartite state and the forward-assisted private capacity of a quantum channel

Limiting one-way distillable secret key via privacy testing of extendible states The notions of privacy tests and $k$-extendible states have both been instrumental in quantum information theory, particularly in understanding the limits of secure communication. In this paper, we de...

Joint work "Limiting one-way distillable secret key via privacy testing of extendible states" w/ Vishal Singh, Aby Philip, & Karol Horodecki now available:

scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0...

The paper establishes a fundamental bound on how well k-extendible states can pass the privacy test.

that's quite a distinguished group of high-caliber theorists!

I consistently have my carefully formatted manuscripts massacred by their copyeditors, and this has occurred for many years. I have always hoped that this could improve, so that I wouldn't have to spend extra hours trying to figure out all the ways that they managed to butcher my manuscripts.

Physical Review has indicated in a paper proof that they have their own style for author contribution statements. This style consists of massacring our statement, by repeating "formal analysis" multiple times & unnecessarily capitalizing phrases. Why does APS consistently have such poor copyediting?

I have also been praying for you Eric.

Dhrumil Patel
Cenk Tüysüz
Adit Vishnu
nathan wiebe
Yadong Wu
Christa Zoufal

Thanks to Chengkai Zhu for help with organization. More details to follow later