{"id":10483,"date":"2018-08-26T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T19:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2018-08-26T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T19:21:48","slug":"quantum-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=10483","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasn&#8217;t been much that I&#8217;ve heard about worth discussing here recently. Presumably everyone is on vacation.  I&#8217;ll try and gather some things that may be of interest, starting first with the hot topic of &#8220;quantum computation&#8221;.  It looks like this will be drawing an increasing amount of attention and resources in the field of physics research.  For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slides and videos from the summer IAS program From Qubits to Spacetime are available <a href=\"https:\/\/pitp.ias.edu\/program-schedule-2018\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boazbarak.org\/fall18seminar\/\">graduate seminar at Harvard<\/a> this fall, blog post about it <a href=\"https:\/\/windowsontheory.org\/2018\/08\/06\/physics-envy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In a few weeks Fermilab will host a <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.fnal.gov\/event\/17199\/\">workshop on Next steps in Quantum Science for HEP<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Moving through the US Congress is a <a href=\"http:\/\/scipol.duke.edu\/content\/first-look-national-quantum-initiative-act-s-3143-hr-6227-115th-congress\">National Quantum Initiative Act<\/a>, which would provide over a billion dollars in funding for things related to quantum computation.<\/li>\n<li>At the NSF MPS (Mathematics and Physical Sciences) they&#8217;re promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/attachments\/245240\/public\/quantum_leap_mpsac.pdf\">NSF&#8217;s Quantum Leap<\/a>.  This is the first of four &#8220;Big Ideas&#8221; (discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/events\/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=245240&#038;org=MPS\">here<\/a>) which will influence what gets funded.  The other three are multi-messenger astrophysics, big data, and things related to biology.<\/li>\n<li>Launching this week is The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/nsf2026ideamachine\/index.jsp\">NSF 2026 Idea Machine<\/a>, which is a competition for suggesting research questions, more &#8220;Big Ideas&#8221; for the NSF to fund.  If you want to enter the competition that opens Friday, I&#8217;m guessing that invoking the word &#8220;Quantum&#8221; will help. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasn&#8217;t been much that I&#8217;ve heard about worth discussing here recently. Presumably everyone is on vacation. I&#8217;ll try and gather some things that may be of interest, starting first with the hot topic of &#8220;quantum computation&#8221;. 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