Encouraging. science.org/content/articl…

We are now at 999 codes. What should be our 1000th? If we pick yours, we will feature you in a post about the code. Comment, reply, message, and spread the word.

"Every American taxpayer is a silent shareholder in that success. If we walk away now, we lose not just future breakthroughs but also what we have already earned." thehill.com/opinion/techno…

📚 I’m excited to be in Copenhagen today giving a 3-lecture crash course on representation theory for the QMATH Masterclass. I put together lecture notes and uploaded them on my website for the occasion to share with students — here they are: antonioannamele.com/documents/QMAT…

Reminiscing with Victor V. Albert, the keeper of the #quantum error correction zoo Error correction zoo, on our time at Yale University and the YaleQuantumInstitute by visiting the gryphon’s pub (gryphonspub.com) of the Yale Graduate School as part of our trip to the QEC25 conference at Yale

I had another fun opportunity to talk about our quantum formulation of the space of molecular orientations at Sorbonne University. Great workshop! Organized by Ugo Boscain, Christiane Koch, Mario Sigalotti, and Dominique Sugny. zenodo.org/records/170584…

Jacob Taylor joined Daniel Carney (Daniel Carney) & Manthos Karydas of Berkeley Lab to rethink gravity. In a paper published in Physical Review X, they propose new “toy models” where gravity emerges from quantum particles—no gravitons needed. Learn more: go.umd.edu/21qb

Here are some slides on our recent work “A complete theory of the Clifford commutant” (arxiv.org/abs/2504.12263), with Lennart Bittel, Jens Eisert, Lorenzo Leone , and Salvatore (SFE) Oliviero. 📑 Link slides: antonioannamele.com/documents/Clif…

David Gross (Cologne) talks about SDP based quantum algorithms. Take home: hidden constants matter. Even if there is an asymptotic speedup in your favorite use case, it may still not be in the parameter regime that is relevant to the problem size you're interested in.

A new proposal imposes significant restrictions on F-1 and J-1 visas, which would sharply curtail foreign talent flow to US grad schools. Both UMD Physics and UMIACS are urging faculty to comment, so please consider. Comment period expires Sept 29. federalregister.gov/documents/2025…

Every time I interact with Michel, he has some deep insight that I understand only years later. Maybe it is not completely fleshed out technically but it is always on point. It reminded me of other winners in the past. Well deserved!

Impressive span of group theory here, covering Schur-Weyl, Peter-Weyl, bosonic systems, modular qudits, Galois qudits, designs, MUBs, and more. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

QuICS Hartree fellowship application is out! A competitive and completely free-range postdoc. Anyone interested in quantum science and technology topics is encouraged to apply, preferably by Dec. 1. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/job…

"Even for the fastest qubit modalities, such as superconducting qubits, it will be challenging to achieve the required logical clock speeds. ...in the long term, the best quantum computer may be the one that runs the fastest." arxiv.org/abs/2510.26078

G. H. Hardy cuts through the noise to get the bottom of most people's inner motivations.