Quantum Algorithms Zoom on 9/23 · Quantum Engineering Lab

Quantum Algorithms Zoom on 9/23

https://www.linkedin.com/events/quantummarketplace-quantumalgor7371555977319395328/

https://sri.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/4817575155269/WN_S6-6jv0MQCiawCZhujgz6g (10 AM - 11:30 AM Central or 11 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern)

Not a Zoo (that's a separate rec by Stephen Jordan) but a Zoom. One goal I have is to talk with the moderator before this event... What should I say to influence this event before it happens? Are there any good topics or questions to suggest? The last time him and I spoke was in Vegas in March for an IEEE workshop. I learned something interesting yesterday.

I'm taking ECE 763 this semester which is fault-tolerant computing. The old school stuff. We'll read a lot of papers from the 60s and 70s. Yesterday, I introduced myself to the professor for the first time and told him I love his class and I hope to apply some of these principles to universal fault-tolerant quantum computing. He immediately perked up. This kind of shocked me as we hadn't mentioned anything 'quantum' at all in this course and I stealthily was the only 'quantum computing' person in the room as far as I could tell. "Do you know Swamit Tannu he asked me?" I was like yea, I did his course a few years ago. This prof is taking Swamit's course this year (which is more focused on error correction than when I took it).

Don't discount the principles learned decades ago as they will help accelerate progress in the next several years. I'll share another tip from going out to dinner with Joe Fitzsimons in 2021, he recommended the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet. By the way, Joe's company announced it will go public earlier this week but that's a whole separate discussion.

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