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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · Mar 5

We're advertising a continuing position in the School of Physics at Sydney!

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Optics & Photonics

Deadline April 3rd

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Base Salary Level B/C, $122,830 - $173,492 p.a + 17% superannuation

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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Optics & Photonics

Full time, continuing position. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics Exciting opportunity to join the leading physics department in the country, with outstanding staff and student...

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Andrew Doherty @acdoherty.bsky.social · Mar 3

In his latest work my student @evanhockings.bsky.social shows you can use ACES noise characterisation to train a decoder and improve noise suppression in the surface code even for very large codes.

Evan Hockings @evanhockings.bsky.social · Mar 3

Why characterise noise in syndrome extraction circuits? One reason: directly improving quantum error correction!

In simulations of the surface code, we find that noise-aware decoding—calibrating the decoder with noise estimates—improves the code's error suppression factor.

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Evan Hockings @evanhockings.bsky.social · Mar 3

Why characterise noise in syndrome extraction circuits? One reason: directly improving quantum error correction!

In simulations of the surface code, we find that noise-aware decoding—calibrating the decoder with noise estimates—improves the code's error suppression factor.

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Andrew Doherty @acdoherty.bsky.social · Feb 26

Large scale characterisation of errors in quantum computers. Very excited to see @evanhockings.bsky.social first paper out just days before he submits his thesis.

Evan Hockings @evanhockings.bsky.social · Feb 25

My first paper—with @acdoherty.bsky.social and Robin Harper—is now out in PRX Quantum! More to come soon :)
journals.aps.org/prxquantum/a...

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Evan Hockings @evanhockings.bsky.social · Feb 25

My first paper—with @acdoherty.bsky.social and Robin Harper—is now out in PRX Quantum! More to come soon :)
journals.aps.org/prxquantum/a...

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Campbell McLauchlan @universal-soup.bsky.social · Feb 14

That's a wrap on the #Coogee25 Sydney Quantum Information Workshop! Thanks to all the brilliant speakers who came to talk about their research!

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Victor V. Albert @vva.bsky.social · Feb 13

ArXiv quant-ph needs to be split up! Paul Ginsparg lists Daniel Gottesman's proposed subcategories at his @aspenphysics.bsky.social talk. He is looking for feedback: please reply, dm, or email.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 4

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

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INTRODUCTION

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Steve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · Jan 11

Submissions for QEC 2025 are now open through March 28.

This will easily be the most exciting conference on quantum error correction yet!

Conference homepage:
qec25.yalepages.org

EasyChair submission page:
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QEC25

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Dec 11

Roadtrip! Heading from @equscoe.bsky.social EQUS workshop in Noosa to the @psiquantum.bsky.social Brisbane office opening, with Tom Stace and Andrew Doherty. In Gerard Milburn’s car! Going to be a very #quantum drive

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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · Nov 11

Repost this if you’re old enough to remember when they tried to convince us that “global warming stopped in 2008” (or whenever).

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