Rishi Sreedhar

YouTube video by A Day in the Life A Day in the Life of a Quantum Information Science Professor with Prabha Mandayam | Ep. 5

Very nice interview with Prof. Prabha Mandayam where she shares with us some fascinating life experiences and insights, like how she got into quantum, what she enjoys most about her job, recent QEC breakthroughs, and more! Very fun, informal and a relaxing listen :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nejx...

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?

➡️ New Working Paper:

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek

www.nber.org/papers/w33984

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Transformers in Protein: A Survey arxiv.org/abs/2505.2...

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#proteomics #prot-preprint

On the Relation between Rectified Flows and Optimal Transport This paper investigates the connections between rectified flows, flow matching, and optimal transport. Flow matching is a recent approach to learning generative models by estimating velocity fields th...

Always found the connection between rectified flows and optimal transport a bit confusing. Glad to see some clarity. TL;DR: Rectified flows ≠ optimal transport. arxiv.org/abs/2505.19712

"A Panorama of Tensor Networks: from Condensed Matter to Quantum Field Theory, Holography and Beyond" TN2025, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Oct. 6-10, 2025
indico.global/event/10052/

The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: A Historical Study Through the Canonical Papers This paper explores the historical development of the theory of quantum mechanics between 1900 and 1927 by chronological examination of the foundational papers and ideas. Beginning with Planck's intro...

[History of Physics]

The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: A Historical Study Through the Canonical Papers

Eren Volkan Küç
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arxiv.org/abs/2503.13630

Introduction to Online Control This text presents an introduction to an emerging paradigm in control of dynamical systems and differentiable reinforcement learning called online nonstochastic control. The new approach applies techn...

Introduction to Online Control (192 pages)

An introduction to an emerging paradigm in control of dynamical systems and differentiable reinforcement learning called online nonstochastic control.

arxiv.org/abs/2211.09619

A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

A comprehensive conceptual account of these theoretical foundations, focusing on developing a principled intuition behind the method and its optimal implementations rather of any exhaustive rigor.

arxiv.org/abs/1701.02434

Can machines learn density functionals? Past, present, and future of ML in DFT Density functional theory has become the world's favorite electronic structure method, and is routinely applied to both materials and molecules. Here, we review recent attempts to use modern machine-l...

Can machines learn density functionals? Past, present, and future of ML in DFT arxiv.org/abs/2503.01709 #compchem

Yes, the quantum tech industry needs PhDs, but as a career move, I don’t think it’s the best bet. Why?

Read my blog post here: aggiebranczyk.com/blog/2025/ph...

#quantumcomputing #quantum #careers #phd 🧪

Fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for quantum molecular systems: A survey Solving quantum molecular systems presents a significant challenge for classical computation. The advent of early fault-tolerant quantum computing (EFTQC) devices offers a promising avenue to address ...

New review on quantum simulation of molecules in the (hopefully soon) early-fault-tolerant quantum computing era.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.02139

Hello world! The quantum journal is now on BlueSky!

Academics in the Wild Exploring careers beyond academia

Academics in the Wild has a new website. Would love to know if we should add anything else to the FAQ. 🧪

academicsinthewild.com

Summary stats can be deceptive! Always visualize your data!

These datasets have nearly identical mean, SD, & correlation yet they look completely different!

You can explore the data yourself in an app I built:
nickmmark.shinyapps.io/data_science/

I'd love to know more about this too 🖐🏽

Today #quantum arXiv selection: Hamiltonian simulation, barren plateau , non-unitary VQE, simulating noisy quantum circuits, quantum compilation, and improved QAOA.
More details and links below:

A wooden tablet featuring glyphs engraved in the surface. Text says: These mysterious glyphs found on Easter Island remain one of history's greatest unsolved puzzles.

🗿📜 Did you know that statues are not the only wonder of ancient culture found on Easter Island?

Besides the monolithic human figures known as moai, another great puzzle seen in this southeastern Pacific Ocean island is rongorongo, a mysterious system of glyphs carved on wooden tablets. 🧵⬇️ (1/6)

You asked!

We've added Bluesky buttons to the Quanta site to make it easier for you to share our stories on this platform.

Try it on today's article: www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...

This semester, I am considering modifying the participation portion of my course: a small % of the overall grade will require identifying a relevant Wikipedia page, and creating/improving it.

Any experience in doing so, and advice on pitfalls to avoid? The side goal being to help improve Wikipedia.

Proprioception - Wikipedia

My lab has a tradition that each week one person contributes edits to a Wikipedia page relevant to their scientific work, and then presents it briefly at lab meeting (and we clap). A few of my favorites:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral...

Wait! Over 35 *thousands* people already registered for the AI Agent course

in a few days...

time to find the biggest conference center in the world and gather everyone for a giga-conference on agents?

you can still join the online course here bit.ly/hf-learn-age...

Introduction to representation theory

These are lecture notes that arose from a representation theory course. The notes cover a number of standard topics in representation theory of groups, Lie algebras, and quivers, and contain many problems and exercises.

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0827

It seems like a tradition is emerging here, and it is out duty to maintain it. So here is my part announcing the publication of our review in semidefinite programming for characterizing quantum correlations @dulwichquantum.bsky.social

journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract...

📚🧵1/7 It is finally here!! Only one more week until the print release of our textbook “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” with @mitpress.bsky.social!

What you get, why you should be interested and more, all below in a short 🧵👇

Hey quantum crowd!
I made a quantum feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Let me know if you want to be on the list for your quantum posts to be seen there by replying to this post.
Share a link to your personal web page at your quantum lab, company or startup or your google scholar as a credential.

Just landed here! 🔥 A nice news to start: *Alice in a differentiable wonderland* has gone over 1000 copies sold on Amazon and I am super happy about the feedback! If you happen to buy a copy feel free to drop a review and/or send me suggestions on the material: www.sscardapane.it/alice-book/

The Tiny Brains of Wasps Can Learn and Remember Information If you have a garden, you have probably seen many insects flying around looking for food. Despite having miniature brains, these small creatures can learn and memorize flower features, mainly colors a...

Teachers, parents, and everyone: You should know Frontiers for Young Minds!

It's a terrific (free) online journal with cutting-edge science articles, written for different age groups. Scientists write. *Kids* are the reviewers. Available in 5 languages.

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Careers in Industry AMA (Discord) · Luma Careers in industry AMA for physics and math PhDs. Hosted by Academics in the Wild. Special Guests: Cole Van Vlack, PhD in Physics → Founding Team at Laser…

Btw come join our final careers in industry AMA this Thursday. We have a couple of folks from the UQ glory days (and other cool ppl too)

lu.ma/yzknjwdp

Google's WIllow chip is a big leap towards usable quantum computing but its claim of beating a classical computer by a 'septillion years' is meaningless Not that you'd be adding one to your gaming PC, sadly. Or any PC, for that matter.

This is actually one of the most sober, balanced articles about Willow that I've seen so far. No breathless hype, no vitriolic hate. Nice job, PC Gamer.

www.pcgamer.com/hardware/goo...

An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory Prior methods propose to offset the escalating costs of modern foundation models by dropping specific parts of their contexts with hand-designed rules, while attempting to preserve their original perf...

Neural Attention Memory Models (NAMMs) are a new kind of neural memory system for Transformers that not only boost their performance and efficiency but are also transferable to other foundation models, without any additional training!

Full Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.13166