The QIP 2026 call for papers is out! QIP 2026 will be held in Riga, Latvia from January 24–30, 2026. See you there! qip2026.lu.lv

The notifications for #FOCS2025 are out: congratulations to all! The registration page is up: focs.computer.org/2025/register/ and information about student travel support will be added within days. Looking forward to seeing you in Sydney in December!

In "On the Rational Degree of Boolean Functions and Applications" with Vishnu Iyer, Siddhartha Jain (@sidjai.bsky.social), Matt Kovacs-Deak, Vinayak Kumar, Luke Schaeffer, Daochen Wang, and Michael Whitmeyer, we prove many interesting results about rational degree. arxiv.org/pdf/2310.08004

The submission server for #FOCS2025 is now open! Submit your work: focs25.hotcrp.com

Some #qip2025 talks this week by my excellent student coauthors: Mon 1:30pm (Kewen Wu): Quantum state preparation with optimal T-Count Mon 5pm (Alexander Schmidhuber): Quartic quantum speedups for planted inference Fri 5pm (Robbie King): Triply Efficient Shadow Tomography

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