Knowing how to give a good talk is a crucial skill to have, but it's mostly not formally taught very well. Here's a 🧵on my strategy for how to prepare for the presentation, actually present it, and then answer the questions.

Thanks Boaz Barak and my colleagues for their unfailing support, and U.S. National Science Foundation for the opportunity. My brilliant students and I can now think more about quantum many-body systems while hanging around at the CS area.

I posted a - seemingly basic - question about Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma on stackexchange and will appreciate any thoughts. cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/5248…

In 2007, I was depressed b/c I had been on the acad job mkt for yrs w/o a job to show for it. My late father said to me: "You're the big pot. You hold a lot of water, so you take a while to boil, but when you do, you will cook everything!" When something doesn't go my way...

The Simons Institute invites applications for long-term visitor positions in the Spring 2014 programs on Error-Correcting Codes: Theory and Practice, and on Quantum Algorithms, Complexity, and Fault Tolerance. simons.berkeley.edu/long-term-visi…

I don't know anything about this case, but this anonymous email is terrible. We tenured professors have a responsibility to mentor and protect new faculty members. This includes protecting their right to speak out about things they believe need fixing. This is how we improve!

New paper with Quynh T. Nguyen , Nikolas Breuckmann and a wonderful summary by Quynh. We set out to find a Qcircuit->Hamiltonian mapping similar to classical Cook-Levin, and ended up with a picture connecting fault tolerance, tensor networks and qPCP conjecture.

Rona likes compilers caste? is this MIT India?

Hamiltonian learning for all temperatures! Congratulations to the authors on the great result arxiv.org/abs/2310.02243

Congratulations to Professor Belinda Wilkes and Dr Nikolas Breuckmann who have been named among this year's Institute of Physics Awards winners for their pioneering scientific work. 🛰️🏅 Read more ➡️ brnw.ch/21wDBli @physicsnews @belindawilkes Nikolas Breuckmann

🔥QEC has arrived ⚛️Neutral atom shock 📈Erasure qubits' rise 💡Real progress in real-time decoding ❌Circuits NOT codes ✅qLDPC goes mainstream Our VP of #quantumscience Earl T Campbell shares his #QEC23 insights: riverlane.com/blog/qec23-six… #quantumcomputing #QuantumPhysics

Accepted and published in Quantum: An Improved Approximation Algorithm for Quantum Max-Cut on Triangle-Free Graphs by Robbie King doi.org/10.22331/q-202…

An innovative new approach for quickly determining quantum particle dynamics has thrilled the theoretical computer science community. Lakshmi Chandrasekaran, PhD (she/her) reports: quantamagazine.org/scientists-fin…

"But also a less obvious point is the importance of full exposition. If an area develops some lore that only insiders know, then it makes it prohibitively difficult for others to join. BGS made me develop a lifelong passion for exposition." — Luca Trevisan youtu.be/O2gpl5l2eQA?fe…

Another proof of the generalised quantum Stein's lemma just dropped! arxiv.org/abs/2408.06410

V2 of this work is now at arxiv.org/abs/2309.16475 with several new contents, such as reproving QMA-completeness of log local Hamiltonians without using Feynman-Kitaev construction (but with lot more work), addressing local indistinguishability etc.

Quantum memory storage would allow for far richer and more accurate descriptions of particles than any systems we use today. Now researchers have shown that even a little goes a long way. quantamagazine.org/quantum-memory…

I am offering a 4 year PhD position to work on quantum algorithms for many-body problems, to stat in Winter of 2025. Please do forward the announcement to potentially interested candidates! ift.uam-csic.es/en/jobs/phd-po…

A beautiful work by Itai and Miklos (arxiv.org/abs/2410.13549) on a variant of local Hamiltonian problem that’s between the classical and the quantum world. They show that a PCP theorem holds here, adding to the growing set of evidence in favour of the quantum PCP conjecture.