Viv Kendon
@quantumviv.bsky.social
I design quantum computers @physicsstrath.bsky.social and @ccp-qc.bsky.social
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Viv Kendon
@quantumviv.bsky.social
· Oct 29
Quantum algorithms for scientific computing - IOPscienceSearch
Quantum algorithms for scientific computing, R Au-Yeung, B Camino, O Rathore, V Kendon
doi.org
Review on quantum algorithms for scientific computing just published in Reports on Progress in Physics (open access):
doi.org/10.1088/1361...
with many thanks to co-authors Rhonda Au Yeung, Bruno Camino, Omer Rathore
doi.org/10.1088/1361...
with many thanks to co-authors Rhonda Au Yeung, Bruno Camino, Omer Rathore
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Had a great time at the #RISCVSummit 2025, thanks very much to @riscv.org.web.brid.gy for the invitation to give a keynote about #RISCV in #HPC, was an honour and I also very much enjoyed being a panelist at the #Google breakfast and presenting #HPC #RISCV updates during the member's day
October 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Had a great time at the #RISCVSummit 2025, thanks very much to @riscv.org.web.brid.gy for the invitation to give a keynote about #RISCV in #HPC, was an honour and I also very much enjoyed being a panelist at the #Google breakfast and presenting #HPC #RISCV updates during the member's day
New paper dance! With @jbennett107.bsky.social @quantumchancellor.bsky.social and Wolfgang Lechner
journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
Improving success probability in Lechner-Hauke-Zoller parity embedding by computing with quantum walks
Lechner-Hauke-Zoller (LHZ) parity embedding is one of the front-running methods for implementing difficult-to-engineer long-range interactions in quantum optimization problems. Continuous-time quantum...
journals.aps.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
New paper dance! With @jbennett107.bsky.social @quantumchancellor.bsky.social and Wolfgang Lechner
journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
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📢 The news is spreading! 📢
Save the date for #DurhamHPCDays26 — next year’s conference will take place from 15–19 June 2026 at @durham.ac.uk
More details coming soon — stay tuned!
Save the date for #DurhamHPCDays26 — next year’s conference will take place from 15–19 June 2026 at @durham.ac.uk
More details coming soon — stay tuned!
October 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
📢 The news is spreading! 📢
Save the date for #DurhamHPCDays26 — next year’s conference will take place from 15–19 June 2026 at @durham.ac.uk
More details coming soon — stay tuned!
Save the date for #DurhamHPCDays26 — next year’s conference will take place from 15–19 June 2026 at @durham.ac.uk
More details coming soon — stay tuned!
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What was the impact of the APC network over the past year?
Voices from the Global South contributed to reimaining internet governance ahead of the 20-year review of WSIS Process #WSIS20.
More in our Annual Report 👇
2024report.apc.org
#apc2024 #BuildingIntersectionalCommonAgendas
Voices from the Global South contributed to reimaining internet governance ahead of the 20-year review of WSIS Process #WSIS20.
More in our Annual Report 👇
2024report.apc.org
#apc2024 #BuildingIntersectionalCommonAgendas
October 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
What was the impact of the APC network over the past year?
Voices from the Global South contributed to reimaining internet governance ahead of the 20-year review of WSIS Process #WSIS20.
More in our Annual Report 👇
2024report.apc.org
#apc2024 #BuildingIntersectionalCommonAgendas
Voices from the Global South contributed to reimaining internet governance ahead of the 20-year review of WSIS Process #WSIS20.
More in our Annual Report 👇
2024report.apc.org
#apc2024 #BuildingIntersectionalCommonAgendas
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Coming out of social media hibernation to ask:
Are you interested in hosting a future QEC conf?
We are looking for detailed bids for QEC27 over the next month (provisional deadline 21st November). For more info: DM or email me.
QEC26 will be in Santa Barbara
Are you interested in hosting a future QEC conf?
We are looking for detailed bids for QEC27 over the next month (provisional deadline 21st November). For more info: DM or email me.
QEC26 will be in Santa Barbara
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Coming out of social media hibernation to ask:
Are you interested in hosting a future QEC conf?
We are looking for detailed bids for QEC27 over the next month (provisional deadline 21st November). For more info: DM or email me.
QEC26 will be in Santa Barbara
Are you interested in hosting a future QEC conf?
We are looking for detailed bids for QEC27 over the next month (provisional deadline 21st November). For more info: DM or email me.
QEC26 will be in Santa Barbara
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Congratulations to Professor Julia Yeomans @oxfordphysics.bsky.social for winning the Paul Dirac Medal & Prize for her contributions to understanding the collective behaviour of active particles, and her work highlighting the relevance of active physics to living matter 👏 #IOPAwards25
October 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Congratulations to Professor Julia Yeomans @oxfordphysics.bsky.social for winning the Paul Dirac Medal & Prize for her contributions to understanding the collective behaviour of active particles, and her work highlighting the relevance of active physics to living matter 👏 #IOPAwards25
Christina Kerr from DSIT last speaker at the HPC-AI conference in Leicester, telling us about the UK government's 10 year compute plans.
October 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Christina Kerr from DSIT last speaker at the HPC-AI conference in Leicester, telling us about the UK government's 10 year compute plans.
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@tobiasweinzierl.bsky.social from @durham.ac.uk kicks off the #HPC #AI UK conference in Leicester this week talking about the #DRI #SHAREing project which is enhancing the accelerated compute ecosystem
October 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
@tobiasweinzierl.bsky.social from @durham.ac.uk kicks off the #HPC #AI UK conference in Leicester this week talking about the #DRI #SHAREing project which is enhancing the accelerated compute ecosystem
Check your Google Scholar profiles. I found an article added to mine that had completely fabricated the authors and abstract, including an author who was born after the publication date ... I think AI filled in the blanks because the first page of the scan is missing online.
August 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Check your Google Scholar profiles. I found an article added to mine that had completely fabricated the authors and abstract, including an author who was born after the publication date ... I think AI filled in the blanks because the first page of the scan is missing online.
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🔷 This Webinar explores the fundamental principles of usability and accessibility, emphasizing their vital role in designing effective and user-friendly tools
🔷 This webinar addresses the diverse needs of different user groups & how accommodating these needs enhances software usability for everyone
🔷 This webinar addresses the diverse needs of different user groups & how accommodating these needs enhances software usability for everyone
June 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🔷 This Webinar explores the fundamental principles of usability and accessibility, emphasizing their vital role in designing effective and user-friendly tools
🔷 This webinar addresses the diverse needs of different user groups & how accommodating these needs enhances software usability for everyone
🔷 This webinar addresses the diverse needs of different user groups & how accommodating these needs enhances software usability for everyone
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Raymond Laflamme 1960-2025. A great scientist, renowned for his pioneering contributions to quantum error correction. A great leader, founding director of the Institute for Quantum Computing. A great colleague and teacher whose legacy continues to inspire us.
uwaterloo.ca/institute-fo...
uwaterloo.ca/institute-fo...
IQC and Waterloo mourn the loss of Raymond Laflamme | Institute for Quantum Computing | University of Waterloo
Raymond Laflamme, a trailblazer in quantum information processing and pioneer of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, died on June 19 after a lengthy battle with ca...
uwaterloo.ca
June 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Raymond Laflamme 1960-2025. A great scientist, renowned for his pioneering contributions to quantum error correction. A great leader, founding director of the Institute for Quantum Computing. A great colleague and teacher whose legacy continues to inspire us.
uwaterloo.ca/institute-fo...
uwaterloo.ca/institute-fo...
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We are absolutely delighted that former IOP President Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been appointed Companion of Honour, one of the nation's highest honours, in today's #KingsHonours2025
June 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
We are absolutely delighted that former IOP President Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been appointed Companion of Honour, one of the nation's highest honours, in today's #KingsHonours2025
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EPCC will be joining the fun at the #BigBangFair from 17-19 June. Meet our team at Stand 141 to learn all about high performance computing systems and experience parallel scaling in the ball-sorting challenge! edin.ac/4n2xGvJ
June 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
EPCC will be joining the fun at the #BigBangFair from 17-19 June. Meet our team at Stand 141 to learn all about high performance computing systems and experience parallel scaling in the ball-sorting challenge! edin.ac/4n2xGvJ
Hans Briegel telling us how to do GenAI with measurement based quantum computing. Lots of MBQC today, Richard Jozsa related it to IQP, and more from Elham Kashefi after lunch at #FQC2025 in Edinburgh, part of the #quantumfringe.
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June 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Hans Briegel telling us how to do GenAI with measurement based quantum computing. Lots of MBQC today, Richard Jozsa related it to IQP, and more from Elham Kashefi after lunch at #FQC2025 in Edinburgh, part of the #quantumfringe.
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Glasgow Science Festival @physicsstrath.bsky.social a little tricky to find us under building refurb but worth the effort for rocket building, detecting gravity, measuring time and other fun stuff
June 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Glasgow Science Festival @physicsstrath.bsky.social a little tricky to find us under building refurb but worth the effort for rocket building, detecting gravity, measuring time and other fun stuff
Afia Masood (EPSRC programme manger) telling us about the UKRI DRI programme, at Durham HPC days
durham.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hp...
durham.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hp...
June 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Afia Masood (EPSRC programme manger) telling us about the UKRI DRI programme, at Durham HPC days
durham.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hp...
durham.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hp...
A short summary of our recently published paper: Quantum computing to speed up fluid simulations on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...
Quantum computing to speed up fluid simulations
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a computational method for simulating fluid mechanics. It is often used for solving astrophysics problems and a wide range of engineering areas. Despite its ...
www.growkudos.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A short summary of our recently published paper: Quantum computing to speed up fluid simulations on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...
Reposted by Viv Kendon
A short 🧵
In a remote corner of Arctic Alaska, archaeologists have unearthed blue glass beads at sites like Punyik Point.
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In a remote corner of Arctic Alaska, archaeologists have unearthed blue glass beads at sites like Punyik Point.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A short 🧵
In a remote corner of Arctic Alaska, archaeologists have unearthed blue glass beads at sites like Punyik Point.
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In a remote corner of Arctic Alaska, archaeologists have unearthed blue glass beads at sites like Punyik Point.
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Important details to know 🔽
📄 Link to the application: www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call...
📅 Deadline: June 23rd 2025, 11.59 pm BST
🚨 Submit application by e-mail at psdi@soton.ac.uk
📜 Successful applicants will be notified by 28th July 2025
#PSDI #FundingCall #ResearchSupport #STEMFunding
📄 Link to the application: www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call...
📅 Deadline: June 23rd 2025, 11.59 pm BST
🚨 Submit application by e-mail at psdi@soton.ac.uk
📜 Successful applicants will be notified by 28th July 2025
#PSDI #FundingCall #ResearchSupport #STEMFunding
May 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Important details to know 🔽
📄 Link to the application: www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call...
📅 Deadline: June 23rd 2025, 11.59 pm BST
🚨 Submit application by e-mail at psdi@soton.ac.uk
📜 Successful applicants will be notified by 28th July 2025
#PSDI #FundingCall #ResearchSupport #STEMFunding
📄 Link to the application: www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call...
📅 Deadline: June 23rd 2025, 11.59 pm BST
🚨 Submit application by e-mail at psdi@soton.ac.uk
📜 Successful applicants will be notified by 28th July 2025
#PSDI #FundingCall #ResearchSupport #STEMFunding
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➡️This funding opportunity invites applications for short-term pilot studies (up to six months), designed to develop innovative data-related resources that will be made available through PSDI.
May 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
➡️This funding opportunity invites applications for short-term pilot studies (up to six months), designed to develop innovative data-related resources that will be made available through PSDI.
Reposted by Viv Kendon
The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) is pleased to announce its first funding call for 2025 🚀🚀
Details & link to the application: www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call...
➡️It is aimed at accelerating research within the physical sciences community.
Details & link to the application: www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call...
➡️It is aimed at accelerating research within the physical sciences community.
May 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) is pleased to announce its first funding call for 2025 🚀🚀
Details & link to the application: www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call...
➡️It is aimed at accelerating research within the physical sciences community.
Details & link to the application: www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call...
➡️It is aimed at accelerating research within the physical sciences community.
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The all-new Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure website is now live. Find out all about the services the PSDI offers at
www.psdi.ac.uk
@psdi-uk.bsky.social
www.psdi.ac.uk
@psdi-uk.bsky.social
Home - Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure
www.psdi.ac.uk
May 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The all-new Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure website is now live. Find out all about the services the PSDI offers at
www.psdi.ac.uk
@psdi-uk.bsky.social
www.psdi.ac.uk
@psdi-uk.bsky.social
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#SudanIsBleeding: Our Shared Struggle
Launched at #CSW68 and led by Sudanese women, this campaign calls for an immediate ceasefire in #Sudan, an end to the war on women’s bodies, and centering Sudanese women’s voices in global action and response.
youtu.be/pt2iw2bNkjk
Launched at #CSW68 and led by Sudanese women, this campaign calls for an immediate ceasefire in #Sudan, an end to the war on women’s bodies, and centering Sudanese women’s voices in global action and response.
youtu.be/pt2iw2bNkjk
Young Women Mobilizing for Peace: A Night of Solidarityn with Sudan
YouTube video by Nala Feminist Collective
youtu.be
May 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#SudanIsBleeding: Our Shared Struggle
Launched at #CSW68 and led by Sudanese women, this campaign calls for an immediate ceasefire in #Sudan, an end to the war on women’s bodies, and centering Sudanese women’s voices in global action and response.
youtu.be/pt2iw2bNkjk
Launched at #CSW68 and led by Sudanese women, this campaign calls for an immediate ceasefire in #Sudan, an end to the war on women’s bodies, and centering Sudanese women’s voices in global action and response.
youtu.be/pt2iw2bNkjk
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Justicia digital, ¡ya!
Un llamado a la acción hacia la CMSI+20 y más allá 👇
www.apc.org/es/pubs/just...
#CMSI @wsis20sec.bsky.social #JusticiaDigital
Un llamado a la acción hacia la CMSI+20 y más allá 👇
www.apc.org/es/pubs/just...
#CMSI @wsis20sec.bsky.social #JusticiaDigital
May 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Justicia digital, ¡ya!
Un llamado a la acción hacia la CMSI+20 y más allá 👇
www.apc.org/es/pubs/just...
#CMSI @wsis20sec.bsky.social #JusticiaDigital
Un llamado a la acción hacia la CMSI+20 y más allá 👇
www.apc.org/es/pubs/just...
#CMSI @wsis20sec.bsky.social #JusticiaDigital