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Viv Kendon
@quantumviv.bsky.social
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I design quantum computers @physicsstrath.bsky.social and @ccp-qc.bsky.social
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Christina Kerr from DSIT last speaker at the HPC-AI conference in Leicester, telling us about the UK government's 10 year compute plans.
Woman on right at lectern with title slide on left saying UK Government's AI Research Resource & 10 year compute roadmap.
October 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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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Man in front of a data screen pointing to diagrams of quantum circuits and qubits. The colours on the screen are phone generated resolving the projector alternating colours. It looks black on white to human eyes.
June 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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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
building with scaffolding over the entrance and a sign saying Physics a lecture theatre of empty seats with numbers on the rows and a small paper rocket with a pink tail flying over them lego kit interferometer with a man in a pale blue t-shirt adjusting the settings a poster entitled TIMELORD TRAINING with images of Einstein, stip watches, the earth and his equation for time dilation
June 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Afia Masood (EPSRC programme manger) telling us about the UKRI DRI programme, at Durham HPC days
durham.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hp...
woman on left speaking to a slide with four themes in blue green and grey squares
June 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Steph Foulds @gayladygrey.bsky.social presenting her poster on quantum walks at #BQIT 2025 in Bristol
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Woman in light green top holding coffee mug next to poster with diagrams of quantum circuits and graphs of simulations
April 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Registration is open for Royal Society Discussion Meeting on: Quantum computing in materials and molecular sciences 6 - 7 Oct London
royalsociety.org/science-even...
Same text as post on left, plus "organised by Professor Vivien Kendon, Dr John Buckeridge, Dr Bruno Camino, Dr Alin Elena, and Sir Richard Catlow FRS"; graphic of qubit graph and section of graphene hexagonal lattice on right
April 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Shushmi from @physicsstrath.bsky.social presenting her poster on quantum benchmarking of D-Wave at #BQIT in Bristol
woman with brown skin in black top with white name badge on right of poster with blue poster board behind her
April 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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poster session B at #QCTIP on day one in Berlin
Row of poster boards stretching away in centre with two people in foreground discussing second poster in row. Portraits of academics hanging from wires above
April 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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At the IQN Quantum Tech Hub launch event in Edinburgh today - panel discussing space quantum links (funded by @ukri.org quantum tech programme)
6 people below a large screen saying Quantum Communications in Space Panel Discussion in white text on red background, and Integrated Quantum Networks Hub with logo in the top right corner
April 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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solar eclipse coming on nicely through a colander
Shadow of a colander with pin hole images of partial solar eclipse, bight circles with a bite out of themc
March 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Good morning!
Clydeport derry with the Ovo Hydro behind and morn*ng sun catching the edges
February 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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#UCUelections it is time to vote for your reps!
Have you posted yours yet?
letter being put into a red postbox held by hand on left
February 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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and the olliam followed with a superb set
#CelticConnections
stage lit in blue and white with musicians partly lit in purple and audience in front
February 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Astro Bloc opening for the olliam at SWG3 - some great high energy fiddle playing
drummer, 2 fiddle players (women) and guitarist on small stage with red and blue lighting in front of standing audience
February 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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pressure drop overnight: storm Eowyn has arrived in Glasgow ... >70 mph wind gusts expected until 7 pm
- stay inside folks if you are in this! @metoffice.bsky.social
barometer with dial showing last night's position in gold ariund 990 mbar and this morning's in red around 960 mbar
January 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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... and QSQW 2025 is all done! Big thank you to everyone for a great conference!
slide projected saying Thank you for attending QSQW 2025! next to a group photo.
January 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Roberta Zambrini (@ifisc.uib-csic.es) telling us about quantum reservoir computing at day 4 of QSQW 2025
www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/
Woman on left in front of a marble column talking about a slide projected centre right explaining how machine learning relates to quantum reservoir computing
January 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Carolin Wille (Cambs Cavendish) discussing which quantum circuits are easy/hard to simulate classically
tall woman on left talking about slide projected right saying II. Theoretical understanding Quantum vs Classical computation Simulating quantum circuits on a classical computer should be hard But some known classes of quanum circuits can be simulated easily -> Understand which classes of circuits are hard and why
January 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Claudia Benedetti (Milano) telling us about using genetic algorithms with quantum walks to determine the graph structure of networks day 3 of QSQW 2025 in Naples
www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/
Woman standing at a lectern on left looking at a projected slide showing three graphs with 5 nodes
January 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Eva Marie Graaf (Imperial) telling us about non-Hermitian Bloch oscillations at QSQW 2025
www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/ on day two
Woman on left presenting slide projected centre right with two blue wavy W graphs on summarising results of Bloch oscillations wiout and with losses
January 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Peng Xue introducing her talk on non-Hermitian quantum walks opening day 2 of QSQW 2025 in Naples
www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/
Woman at lectern in bottom left corner with slide projected centre right and marble and wood surrounding of the room. Slide has pictures of quantum walks.
January 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Rydberg expts session, this is Simone Notarmicola telling us about phase transition expts using QuEra hardware.
Man in red top on left with slide projected in centre and rows of red chair backs and heads of audience in foreground.
January 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Mandi, Jemma, @jbennett107.bsky.social Lara, Steph, @gayladygrey.bsky.social and me at QSQE 2025
www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/
in Naples - Mount Vesuvius in the background.
Five women lined up with buildings on the left and a volcano in the background, blue sky above with a few small white clouds on the right
January 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Taira Giordana telling us how to build quantum bernoulli factories in a photonic lab
woman at lectern on far left, slide projected centre right with colourful graph and bar charts
January 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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At QSQW2025 in Naples this week www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/
Here is Martin Stefanak (apologies for lack of correct accents in name) telling us about quantum walks on networks with hubs
nan at lectern on left with slide projected on right with graph of hubs and links. marble and wood room around with seatin_ for a panel
January 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM