Tenure track assistant prof job up for grabs in Basel. It's quantum computing theory, based in computer science, and part of the NCCR SPIN. Whoever gets this job will probably have to collaborate with me. Whether you see that as a pro or con is up to you. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

This is very cool. arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337

From Stacey Jeffery's excellent plenary talk at #TQC2025, on "Composing #Quantum Algorithms"

Dear colleagues, positions at CNRS (and INRIA) will (in all probability) be announced this winter. By then it will however be too late to properly prepare an application. Recent PhDs, postdocs etc interested in such positions should get right now in contact with teams who would like to recruit them.

Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...

Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social and Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social discuss the parallels between Trump's America and Putin's Russia, and the strugle between democracy and autocracy worldwide in the 2nd seson of "Autocracy in America". www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

Looking for a postdoc to work on bosonic quantum error correction! Join me and the QAT team at ENS & INRIA Paris — flexible start date. Details here 👉 recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... or feel free to reach out!

I am looking for a talented postdoc to join my group at EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Goal is to develop and apply state-of-the-art neural quantum states for electronic structure and related applications. Position to be filled soon, excellent conditions! Apply here: www.epfl.ch/labs/cqsl/jo...

Accurate (and disturbing) take on current AI developments. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

One year out, the team that bagged the fifth busy beaver is back with an update on the sixth: It’s even bigger than we thought! My latest in @quantamagazine.bsky.social:

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...

I'm trying to vibe-code something more advanced today but the vibes are off.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Today I introduced my PhD student to vibe-coding (a term he has never heard of). He has never used an LLM or coded in Julia before, so I suggested half-jokingly that he can just vibe-code the numerics and I proceeded to demonstrate this. Unexpectedly, after some small fixes the code actually worked!

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

Previous historic examples of deliberate destruction of scientific institutions from within a country. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

My answer to the question "Is there a physical motivation to study finite fields?" has been approved after 12 years. physics.stackexchange.com/a/78834/11755

I'm learning how to write formal proofs with #LeanProver so I decided to formalize the introduction of some paper in #Lean4. Unexpectedly, I found a typo in one equation after my attempt at proving it failed.

Great opportunity for postdocs in the US looking move to Austria: stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi...

EPFL are recruiting a tenure track assistant proff working on the theory of condensed matter and interacting quantum matter: www.epfl.ch/about/workin... Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about life at EPFL/in Switzerland etc.

I am looking for a PhD student to explore quantum advantage with indistinguishable particles in my group at CTP PAS, Warsaw (within Quantera TouQan project touqan.eu). 4‑yr scholarship, start  Oct 2025. Apply by 8 Aug 2025: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/360583

After 3 1/2 years of work my course on quantum computing is finally finished — the "Director's Cut" of Understanding Quantum Information and Computation is now available. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11536

PSA: In modern LaTeX distributions, if you just load amsthm + cleveref, \cref will refer to e.g. Definition 123 as "Theorem 123". You can fix it by loading amsthm + thmtools + cleveref in this order. No other changes needed.

A little more than a week left to apply!

Postdoc opening in my group: careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...

I just asked Douglas Hofstadter, author of Godel, Escher, Bach and one of the most original thinkers I've met, a few questions: johnhorgan.org/cross-check/...

I am currently looking for a PhD student who would like to work on position-based cryptography. Details can be found here: andreasbluhm.eu/wp-content/u... Please spread the word!

I'm going to hear Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace" tonight, which I recommend as a good alternative to attending military parades. My favorite part from this piece is "Benedictus": www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc1Z...

Hello #quantum community! Just a little heads up that there is still some time to apply !

Open position at QuSoft / University of Amsterdam: Assistant Professor in Quantum Computing and Simulation for Quantum Chemistry and Materials qusoft.org/qusoft-vacan... Deadline: 14 July 2025

Excited to announce I'm recruiting for my first two Postdoctoral Research Associates! These 5-year positions will allow the holders to dive into applying quantum foundations to understand and develop quantum advantage!

Great visualizations!

Very bleak overview of the current situation in the US. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I found Monique Laurent has these excellent notes on polynomial optimization, homepages.cwi.nl/~monique/fil... Maybe helpful to few QI peeps.

Check this out: an accessible math font which actually looks nice! www.luciole-vision.com/en/math.html

On Friday I made my first-ever calls to congress to oppose funding cuts to NSF. It was super easy — it took just a couple minutes, and I read off a script provided by Save NSF (www.savensf.com). Afterwards, I felt good. The pervasive sense of powerlessness was held at bay, at least temporarily.(1/8)

Got some unexpectedly nice solutions!

If this is not art, then what is?

I'm a huge fan and an active user of the hyperref and cleveref LaTeX packages, but unfortunately it looks like they are no longer compatible (and cleveref is not actively maintained). github.com/latex3/hyper... Any suggestions for cleveref alternatives? (Or anyone able to maintain it...?)

We are currently looking for a postdoc. If you are intrigued by Singapore and CQT (and you should be) and have experience in mathematical aspects of quantum information, especially with information measures, quantum cryptography or learning theory, get in touch! careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...

Open position: we have an excited opening for a 3-year contract (including a very nice welcome package to start building a small team) in our group at Inria Paris. If you want to work on quantum LDPC codes and fault tolerance, please consider applying. (1/2)

Fully-funded four-year PhD position on random circuits and shadows for many-body physics. Interested in working on fundamental problems and take it all the way to applications? Join my new team at U Cologne and Matteo Rizzi's group at FZ Jülich! Deadline: 18 May www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

I'm hiring a postdoc! If you'd like to work with me on quantum learning, error correction, quantum algorithms, and FTQC at Virginia Tech in the Washington, DC metro area, please apply here: careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

Excerpt from Roger Howe's "Perspectives on Invariant theory: Schur duality, multiplicity-free actions and beyond". I will make sure to start next term's lecture on Schur-Weyl duality with "Now with the multilinear algebra nonsense out of the way, let's do some double commutant yoga!"

Still one week to apply!

Since I gave an overview presentation on the Petz transpose map in 2021, we've learned a lot more about its interpretation and relation to Bayesian inversion. The most important, in my opinion, is the derivation of the Petz transpose map from a principle of minimum change. youtu.be/8ZzGI7hYAfU

Renormalisation is a central concept in modern physics. It describes how the dynamics of a system change at different scales. A great way to understand and visualise renormalisation is the Ising model (some math, but one can follow without it ) 1/13

Wrote up a little tutorial + review on higher-order quantum operations. If you love quantum channels, you can think of these as linear maps that act on channels themselves in manner fully consistent with quantum theory! I hope it helps future students / researchers! 🤗 arxiv.org/abs/2503.09693

📢 Our fourth TCS+ talk will be Wednesday, April 23 (10amPT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CEST): Ryan Williams (@rrwilliams.bsky.social), from MIT, will tell us about "Simulating Time With Square-Root Space"! RSVP to receive the link (available one day prior to the talk): forms.gle/hi9pBsgjRBMb... #TCSSky