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Academic Writing Workshop #2

Elisabeth van Stam (UW Writing and Communication Centre)

The best scientific writing is clear, concise and easily comprehended by its intended audience. Learn skills for writing in the sciences, including identifying and correcting common errors to write with precision and fluidity.

Academic Writing Workshop #1

Elisabeth van Stam (UW Writing and Communication Center)

Learning to effectively communicate your research is an essential skill necessary for success within academia. Join Elisabeth van Stam (STEM Specialist) as she introduces you to the Writing and Communication Centre (WCC) services and resources that will help you successfully accomplish your research milestones.

Optimization Algorithms for Quantum Deep Learning

PhD Candidate: Guillaume Verdon-Akzam

Anand Natarajan, Caltech

A long-standing puzzle in quantum complexity theory is to understand the power of the class MIP* of multiprover interactive proofs with shared entanglement. This question is closely related to the study of entanglement through non-local games, which dates back to the pioneering work of Bell.

“Quantum physics” has taken its position with “rocket science” in pop culture as a shorthand for frighteningly complicated science. Quantum physics has also taken on a sort of magical connotation in fiction, with features like entanglement, superposition, and tunneling, spurring imagination. But where does the science draw the line? How much is joyful speculation, and how much is disregard for reality? And if it’s always seen as either magical or scary, how does that affect the perception of quantum science?

Supartha Podder, University of Ottawa

In 2011 Harry Buhrman, Serge Fehr, Christian Schaffner and Florian Speelman proposed a new measure of complexity for finite Boolean functions, called "The Garden-hose complexity". This measure can be viewed as a type of distributed space complexity where two players with private inputs compute a Boolean function co-operatively. While its motivation mainly came from the applications to position based quantum cryptography, the playful definition of the model is quite appealing in itself.

Co-organized by the National Research Council of Canada 

The meeting brings together the Canadian community of scientists and engineers who perform research and development on spin-based quantum technologies. This will be the third annual workshop, with the main goal to foster spin qubit research and attract and train highly qualified personnel for the emerging quantum technologies sector in Canada.

Nicole Yunger Halpern, Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Join us in QNC 1201 for a Meet and Greet with Nicole Yunger Halpern, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (ITAMP). All are welcome. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

What makes someone a good ally? How can you use your privilege to stand up and support others?