Once again, and especially for this International Year of Quantum Science and Technology #IQY2025, I'm very proud of @irif-paris.bsky.social and #MPQ lab for participating in the science festival at @upcite.bsky.social on October 8th and 10th.

How should we teach and grade in a #ChatGPT world? Short answer: Return to the Socratic method! www.lemonde.fr/en/summer-re...

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

“Le futur Palais de la découverte est moderne et prêt à être installé”, Étienne Ghys.

To reduce barriers to attendance, #FOCS2025 will try to facilitate childcare for attendees during the conference. Information, how to register your interest, and how to apply for financial support: focs.computer.org/2025/childca... Deadline (for the latter): ⏰ September 19th (AoE)

This is very impressive. Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single source shortest paths search.app/wnEUo

Springer publishes a P ≠ NP "proof" and Eric Allender has words to say. blog.computationalco...

Applications for travel support, for students and postdocs, are open! ⏰ Deadline: Sep 19 #FOCS2025 #TCSSky focs.computer.org/2025/travel-... (no requirement to have a paper at the conference to apply)

Part of the quantum group from @irif-paris.bsky.social in delegation at Latvia University, for the closing workshop of the EU-Quantera grant QOPT quantera.eu/qopt/ @upcite.bsky.social @cnrsinformatics.bsky.social

CNRS is opening a call for CPJ (chair de professeur junior), a kind of tenure track with very good conditions. One position is open for quantum computing, and one of the hosting labs is LIG in beautiful Grenoble! The application deadline is July 14th. www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Interesting: there will be a "quantum duel" (a debate) about the possibility of quantum computing between Matthias Christandl and Gil Kalai, on May 20. Livestream here: www.learned.cz/en/activitie...

ERC Advanced Grants: 2.5 M€ + up to 2 M€ extra for those coming from the US, already available in this funding round that opens next week! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

What a great initiative!

Highly recommend Tom Gur (@tomgur.bsky.social)'s TCS+ talk on the Zero-Knowledge PCP theorem his coauthors and he obtained. Very clear introduction to ZK, to PCPs, and (as an aside) to the unexpected timeline of a research project. youtu.be/bO6NT0XIAWE @tcsplus.bsky.social

Greg Hager talks about why he left the NSF. cra.org/a-letter-to-...

This is next Wednesday! Register below to receive the Zoom link for Or's talk: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@ldh.fr (french league of human tights) issues a public statement in support of academic freedom to preserve democracy www.ldh-france.org/defendre-lun... @standupforscience.bsky.social @standupforscifr.bsky.social

[🎥 - CNRS Flash'Opti] For the CNRS conference titled 𝑂𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, Simon Apers, a CNRS Research Scientist at IRIF delivered a three-minute Flash'Opti presentation about how quantum algorithm can help optimisation. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSKL...

If you are a french scientist journalist, you should subscribe to this visit to MPQ lab (at @upcite.bsky.social ) ajspi.com/activites/vi...

On September 2024, the utility of mirroring arxiv was not relevant anymore. Maybe the community should reconsider this with mirrors outside US @standupforscience.bsky.social info.arxiv.org/help/mirrors...

Proud to be at @collegedefrance.bsky.social for the launch @standupforscifr.bsky.social in Paris

This is the map of events in Paris for the Stand up for science

Computer scientists Harry Buhrman (left) and Michal Koucký (right) helped prove that, if you tweak bits in just the right way, you can get extra computational oomph out of a full memory. https://buff.ly/4i6G7Tz

I read this morning on a French newspaper that there is a EPSRC collaborative project by Kevin Buzzard for "a Lean formalisation of Fermat's Last Theorem". Amazing! github.com/ImperialColl...

An amazing french article probably explaining why less and less women specialize in maths in France: www.leparisien.fr/etudiant/lyc...

In two recent papers, Sophie Morier-Genoud and Valentin Ovsienko, research director at the CNRS, both members of the Laboratoire de Mahématiques de Reims , have introduced a notion of quantum real numbers, or “q-numbers”... www.insmi.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/...

Watch the full video, sound on.

Start with a qubit in state |0>, apply X, then measure. (Le Cirque Graphique)

"➕de 50% des chercheurs et enseignants chercheurs vont partir à la retraite d'ici 2030. Si la France ne réinvestit pas pour rendre ces métiers attractifs, elle décrochera à l'international". Dean Lewis. 👉 @franceinter.fr : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Wave functions and superpositions with Le Cirque Graphique.

Les @cnrseditions.bsky.social viennent de publier "le calcul à découvert" (Ed. Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Michel Daydé, Christian Jutten): plus de soixante courts textes pour aller de l'histoire du calcul au supercalculateurs en passant par l'algorithmique, les aspects quantiques, les enjeux sociétaux...

The Steering Committee of the annual international conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography, #TQC, is seeking a local organizer for the year 2026

Fascinating article in #LeMonde featuring insights from several researchers in #QuantumComputing and #ArtificialIntelligence, including my esteemed colleague Elham Kashefi from @cnrs.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Quite difficult to move to a new platform. I’ve used the following tool that I can deeply recommend! www.sky-follower-bridge.dev

In a paper published today in Nature, researchers at Google Quantum AI crossed a significant threshold in quantum error correction, moving quantum computers one step closer to practical applications. @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-comp...

If you're curious about quantum computing and want to learn the basics, check out the "Quantum Quest" created by me and Michael Walter! www.quantum-quest.org/material