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James D. Watson

James D. Watson

@JamesDCWatson

"Greek God of ruining provable statements" - @QueenofQuanta. Currently at @GoogleQuantumAI. Previously at @JointQuICS, @UCL, @Cambridge_Uni

Maryland, US Katılım Temmuz 2018
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Daniel Grier
Daniel Grier@danielgrier_·
Hello, #quantum! I'm recruiting new PhD students this year to work with me in quantum complexity theory. I encourage you to apply. Come be part of the strong theory group here @ucsd_cse! Application deadline is Dec 18th -- details: cse.ucsd.edu/graduate/admis…
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James D. Watson@JamesDCWatson·
@econcallum @StefanFSchubert I'm surprised -- why are people thinking of moving from the US? I'm also writing from the US! In tech adjacent fields UK salaries are *significantly* below their US counter-partners, usually by a factor of 2x, and most my colleagues are horrified by UK salaries.
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Callum Williams
Callum Williams@econcallum·
@StefanFSchubert @JamesDCWatson From the perspective of the US, I assure you that the exact same conversation is happening in the opposite direction. Ditto with Canada. People are generally fed up at the moment!
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James D. Watson@JamesDCWatson·
@StefanFSchubert I don't disagree! But I also think the UK is uniquely vulnerable in this sense! The UK is *so* culturally/linguistically aligned with the US that moving to the US isn't culturally very hard. Couple this with a 2x real salary increase, and suddenly moving to the US is attractive
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Stefan Schubert
Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert·
@JamesDCWatson I see, thanks. I lived for ten years in the UK and know about the downsides. But I also think it remains attractive (e.g. since it's the only big English-speaking country in Europe).
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James D. Watson@JamesDCWatson·
@StefanFSchubert I'd say about 40% for Cambridge and about 60-70% for UCL. Most leavers went to the US. Of the people who stayed from Cambridge, both work for hedgefunds, and those who left for the US work in a mix of finance/tech. The UCL graduates are mostly working in tech/academia.
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Jiaqing Jiang
Jiaqing Jiang@JiaqingJ·
For various commuting local Hamiltonians, including (defected) Toric code which has non-trivial topological order, we map the task of designing fast-mixing quantum Gibbs sampler to the task of classical Gibbs sampling 😇 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.04909
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Daniel Stilck França
Daniel Stilck França@dsfranca·
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant! Huge thanks to my colleagues, friends, and family for all the support—I couldn’t have done it without you :D Stay tuned for more updates soon!
Centre Inria de Lyon@Inria_lyon

#Distinction🥇| Félicitations à Daniel Stilck França de l'équipe #QInfo, lauréat d'une bourse européenne @ERC_Research avec son projet Gifneq ! 🎉 Expert dans l'#informatiquequantique, son défi est de lever les freins vers la réalisation d'un ordinateur quantique.💻

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Andrew Childs
Andrew Childs@andrewmchilds·
I'm honored to receive the 2024 Kirwan Prize from @UofMaryland for research on quantum simulation algorithms. Many thanks to my collaborators on this topic over the years, especially @yuansu_umd who made deep contributions to the analysis of product formulas.
UMD Department of Computer Science@umdcs

🎉 Congratulations to @UofMaryland CS Professor @andrewmchilds on receiving the 2024 Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize! 🏆 Join us in congratulating him on this milestone achievement! Read more: go.umd.edu/KirwanPrize24

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James D. Watson@JamesDCWatson·
As a bonus, we also put limits on where the efficient classical Gibbs sampling algorithms (such as those recently developed by @AineshBakshi , Liu, Moitra, @ewintang ) can work.
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James D. Watson@JamesDCWatson·
Finally, to show quantum advantage, we borrow results from the Bergamaschi et al paper to show that these families of Gibbs states can be prepared efficiently with a quantum computer using the recent Lindbladian methods.
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James D. Watson@JamesDCWatson·
New paper: we show quantum advantage in Gibbs sampling with local Hamiltonians at constant temperature! This tackles one of my favourite questions: how "quantum" are systems at non-zero temperature? Work with the fantastic @joelrajakumar! Link: scirate.com/arxiv/2408.015…
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