@orzelc It's ironic since there is so much timekeeping in the system, but no one seems to count how much these extra compliance things cost
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Nils Johan Engelsen
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Nils Johan Engelsen
@NilsEngelsen
Assistant professor at Chalmers University of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden Beigetreten Şubat 2011
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The other sneaky cost is that you're making highly-paid faculty slog through an accounting process they use maybe 2-3 times a year, rather than having it handled efficiently by staff who make half as much. But because faculty don't bill hourly, it looks like a savings.
Kyle Handley@KyleLHandley
Academia has drifted into “pre-compliance bureaucracy”: every small action requires layers of admins to certify that faculty understand policy. It delays decisions by months and adds huge costs without improving outcomes. An abundance agenda for universities starts with cutting these layers and trusting faculty. Punish real violations, not imagined ones. Would probably save a lot of money in face the permanent revenue shocks.
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This position is funded by the META-PIX Center at Chalmers, which aims to use inverse design and heterogeneous integration for next generation integrated photonics. The successful candidate will therefore enjoy the benefits of the strong Chalmers photonics environment.
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We are hiring another postdoc: If you are interested in designing and fabricating photonics for interfacing with cold atoms, check it out and send me an email for more information! Link in thread
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Another nice feature of being in Norway: This Site is giving me trending topics in the sidebar that I assume are rage-bait, but I can't understand any of them.
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animations / smooth transitions are a waste of time and adiabatic murdering.
i would never forgive apple for making the default transition between spaces/virtual desktops this slow. did you know you can three fringer swipe real fast to make the transition faster than the default? why?? why is it not instant by default?? why is there only an option to reduce animation instead of turning it off completely??? evil company.
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@NilsEngelsen yep
luckily we could herald and post select the water 😂
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can confirm quantum frequency conversion is also just passing water around
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i'm tired of these analogies.. how is voltage NOT like water pressure
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When we tried to enhance microwave atomic clocks with spin squeezing during my phd we quickly hit the limits of our microwave oscillator. Check out the work from JILA in PRL, where they do 5 orders of magnitude better than us: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…
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It's very exciting to see Jun Ye's group at @JILAscience using entangled states to improve atomic clocks performing close to the state of the art. It's a true feat of both classical and quantum engineering.
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@jwt0625 They wrote an article about it in nat. nano, in fig 1c you can see one of our finest tumbleweed resonators
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@jwt0625 Yeah it was made by Mohammad Bereyhi (now luxtelligence), we were hoping it would catch on, but always hard with these things. Would be cool to see more stuff!
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@jwt0625 Link didn't work because I think x adds www in front: nanofab-net.org
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@jwt0625 That would be great. We made a wiki for publishing recipes at nanofab-net.org but it didn't get much use
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maybe journals should also start enforcing a fab process reporting summary
Yue2022: [Chip-scale high-peak-power semiconductor/solid-state vertically integrated laser](doi.org/10.1038/s41467…)
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@orzelc @thomasgwong journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10… this Glauber paper is as good as any book on coherent states I would say :) it's a nice read
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@NilsEngelsen @thomasgwong I'll have to look at those; I'm an experimentalist by training so I was mostly thinking of stuff like the Aspect experiments, Itano and Wineland on quantum jumps/ quantum Zeno, maybe Kimble on antibunching. I remember those all being pretty well written, but need a refresh.
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My upper-level elective course for next term has passed from "I hope enough students sign up for this to run" to "Yikes! Too many papers to grade!" Which, admittedly, is not the worst problem to have...
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@orzelc @thomasgwong The original glauber papers are very readable, I guess that's what you're going for?
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Probably going to use some of the (free) materials on QC from Scott Aaronson and @thomasgwong, and may try to have them read primary sources on the QO side. It'll be fun, but also exhausting...
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We are hiring a postdoc! The postdoc will work on our project coupling single strontium atoms to nanoscale defect cavities with the ultimate goal of creating quantum states of massive mechanical resonators. Contact me if you are interested, link in replies.
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