Something worrying me: many seem to change their research direction out of FOMO, reacting to (the obvious) recent trend: "If I don't do this, someone else will do it!" One of the key perks we have in academia is the freedom to set our own agenda.* If someone else can—and WILL—do it, why would you?

Talk at #TQC2025 by Aparna Gupte (MIT): "can we have quantum One-Time Programs, i.e., programs that can be evaluated only once?" No. But, good news, yes! arxiv.org/abs/2411.01876

We are launching an 𝐮𝐧𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 and experimental online parallel event for the conference ITCS25, aimed at everyone who cannot attend the conference in person for whatever reasons. (1/2) sites.google.com/view/itcs202... #ITCS25 #ITCS2025 #OnlineParallels

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do; Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too. Imagine all the people Livin' life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one. John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80

Peer reviews of the quantum cryptography community have been making me very depressed and nihilistic recently..... Wrote this just to vent.... gardenofforkingpath.blogspot.com/2024/12/some...

A new work with @henryyuen.bsky.social and Saachi Mutreja. We show a classical oracle separation of QMA and QCMA, the long-standing problem on the power of quantum proofs over classical proofs, based on a quantum pseudorandomness conjecture. arxiv.org/abs/2411.14416