Eric Kessler

YouTube video by QIP2025 Shouzhen Gu: "The benefits and costs of quantum error correction with erasure qubits" (QIP 2025)

"The benefits and costs of quantum error correction with erasure qubits"
youtu.be/k2hgiodDJYs
SPEAKER: Shouzhen Gu
AUTHORS: Shouzhen Gu, Yotam Vaknin, Alex Retzker, Aleksander Kubica

YouTube video by QIP2025 Yufan Zheng: "On the Computational Complexity of Schrödinger Operators" (QIP 2025)

"On the Computational Complexity of Schrödinger Operators"
youtu.be/z4xgJ8N986k
SPEAKER: Yufan Zheng
AUTHORS: Jiaqi Leng, Yizhou Liu, Xiaodi Wu, Yufan Zheng

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

Amazon Braket launches new 54-qubit superconducting quantum processor from IQM | Amazon Web Services Amazon Braket enables customers to design and run quantum algorithms on a broad selection of quantum hardware through a unified interface. Today, we expand the hardware available on Braket with the ge...

Welcome to #AmazonBraket, IQM Emerald! 54 qubits, 99.5% 2Q fidelity, dynamic circuits. Super excited to see this live! aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantu...

⚛️🧪 #QuantumComputing

Modeling a nitrogen-vacancy center with NVIDIA CUDA-Q Dynamics: University of Washington Capstone Project | Amazon Web Services Defects in crystals are leading qubit candidates for quantum information networks. The ability to efficiently model defects, like nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, and their environment would deepen our ...

Just wrapped an exciting capstone project at UW's Quantum Technologies program! Students used Amazon Braket + NVIDIA's new CUDA-Q Dynamics to simulate quantum systems in diamond (NV centers)

This is the first time seeing CUDA-Q Dynamics on AWS

aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantu...

@mcbride.house.gov I just wanted to say, this was a very beautiful and inspiring conversation with Ezra Klein.

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

Even after setting the bar really (!) low they never stop surprising me with their level of incompetence. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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We’d love to find more #QEC experts here on BlueSky and have created this starter pack to help connect the error correction community.

It’s just a start – if you’re working QEC, please follow this account and message us. We’ll happily add you to the pack!

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Always going to share stories about one of my favorite #WomenInPhysics 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪

I am glad that this profile written by Luc Rinaldi for Toronto Life Magazine is out. It is about what I am doing and where I am going. Thanks to Luc for the time he took to write this piece. #chemsky #compchemsky

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Read Harvard’s Response to the Trump Administration Harvard University’s lawyers responded on Monday to the Trump Administration’s letter demanding a series of policy changes, saying the demands were unlawful and that Harvard would not comply.

Glad to see this response by @harvard.edu. What else is an endowment for if not this
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I will surely come up with something thoughtful to say about the proposal to cut NASA's science budget in half, and especially one that reminds everyone that the cosmos is worth our curiosity and NASA explores it quite cheaply but also, FUCK FUCK FUCK, that's a major cut to climate change science 🧪

In numbers: China hits fresh milestones in its energy transition Wind and solar have overtaken thermal plants (coal, gas, oil, and bioenergy) in terms of generating capacity.

Because it's been a shit week, here's some good news to cheer you up. A thread with 10 cool stories from around the world:

1. China now has more #wind and #solar than thermal generating capacity and is installing 1 million solar panels EVERY SINGLE DAY.

theprogressplaybook.com/2025/03/25/i...

Free from Russia's grid, Lithuania advances towards 100% renewable power by 2030 Lithuania plans to procure at least 800MWh of energy storage to help it achieve its goal of reaching 100% renewable electricity by 2030.

10. Now free from Russia’s grid, Lithuania is quickly advancing towards 100% renewable power by 2030

theprogressplaybook.com/2025/02/11/f...

NEW | Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record 🇺🇸

Among all the turmoil, some positive news from the latest @ember-energy.org data for March 2025:

🏆↘️ The share of fossil fuels fell to a record low of 49.2%

🏆↗️ Wind and solar power hit a new record high of 24.4%

Mood

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Opinion | The End of the University as We Know It (Gift Article) The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

This is not an exaggeration at all.

Read this, and then do the most meaningful thing you can to resist it:

(1) Join @aaup.bsky.social to help fight on national level,

(2) Organize, organize, organize with your AAUP chapter at your university level.

Now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Interesting

Interesting

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

It was my pleasure to join a jubilant and well-attended rally against the current administration's assault on science in Boulder today. Besides the University of Colorado, Boulder and the surrounding area are home to many national labs, including NIST, NOAA, NCAR, and NREL. 1/2

Today in “things i didn’t know, I didn’t know”: starfish… walk?

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Gotta be honest, I have no idea what opinions Khalil holds, and I'm guessing I'd probably disagree with a bunch, but it's not even worth me finding out, *because that doesn't matter* and there's no reason to even bring it up, because he was renditioned because of his speech. Full stop.

Just say it.

Super cool! Is the material you weee using publicly available? (Science fair is coming up fast…)

Would you subscribe to a newsletter focused on #quantum software engineering, libraries, apps/algorithms?

There are lots of sites/newsletters about #quantum industry: startups, science, achievements, research. But very little on software: tools and libraries for research and application development