Newly minted PhD! Rafael Wagner passed his PhD viva at Univ. Minho today with flying colours. Multiple papers and collaborations, deep foundational insights and even experiments, this thesis has it all. Congrats Rafael! @inlnano.bsky.social

Haha, funny reference to "Back to the future" in the wikipedia page of "Johnny B. Goode"

Power outage day in Portugal. At least the electricity is already back here in Braga, though no running water yet...

This week @michaloszmaniec.bsky.social from CTP-PAS is visiting our group @inl.int ! He gave us an interesting talk on the complexity of boson sampling in the high photon density regime, with lots of discussion afterwards.

Age yourself with a toy from your childhood.

Weather forecast for tomorrow: waves of up to 14 m!

Happy festive season from the Quantum and Linear-Optical Computation group at INL!

Today Duo gave me this Italian lesson:

Age yourself with your first computer.

The results of the FoQaCiA project "Foundations of quantum computational advantage" being disseminated today at the Quantum Flagship booth at the European Quantum Technologies Conference EQTC 2024 in Lisbon. I'm happy to chat if you're around!

A big thank you to the examination committee, composed of Profs. Dan Browne (UCL - attending online), Jara Juana Bermejo-Vega (Granada), Luís Paulo Santos (Minho), Armando Nolasco Pinto (Aveiro), and Ariel Guerreiro (Porto), and supervisor Ernesto Galvão.

1st PhD graduate of our group! Today Filipa Peres passed her PhD examination at the University of Porto with flying colours. A big chunk of our group was there to cheer on her success! The thesis was titled "Optimizing models of hybrid quantum/classical computation".

Here's me yesterday, delivering my flash talk on how to witness quantum imaginarity using unitary-invariant quantities, at #FQC2024 in London.