Hamza Waseem
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Oxford Physics DPhil (Rhodes Scholar) | Disclaimer: All views expressed here are my own and do not represent the views of my employer. https://sites.google.com/site/hamzawaseem813/
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coecke.bsky.social
Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*:

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Roger Penrose & Friends Appeal for Unique Archive
To digitise and restore the worlds largest collection of audio and visual recordings within the scientific community, spanning over 50 years
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quantumfoundations.bsky.social
Happy to finally announce this long-overdue paper.

TL;DR: We demonstrated that using our diagrammatic formalism, called Quantum Picturalism, high school students can excel at the University of Oxford's postgrad-level quantum exam.

More details in this 82-page paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01013
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clearlight.bsky.social
Genocide as property development
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Just in: Donald Trump said the US, working with teams from 'all over the world', would 'slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth' www.ft.com/content/1b5c...
Palestinians walk among the rubble after returning to their neighborhood destroyed during the Israeli military operations lasting for 3 weeks in Jabalia, Gaza, on June 1, 2024. Despite the growing international pressure on Israel's war cabinet led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt its operations in Gaza and accept the proposed truce, the Israeli government has continued with wider military operations. According to the United Nations and humanitarian organizations, Israel's military has destroyed some 50,000 housing units and bulldozed drainage networks and roads in northern Gaza. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by MAHMOUD ISSA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
quantumfoundations.bsky.social
I’m so delighted to have had the chance to speak to a group of Pakistani school students about quantum through pictures today. These 13- to 18-year-olds arranged this online talk themselves and actively engaged with the material, asking brilliant questions, all on a Sunday evening.
quantumfoundations.bsky.social
Yesterday, I delivered the first lecture of my career. It was an invited lecture for the graduate-level Quantum Information course taught by Artur Ekert at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

It was a super fun experience! Hopefully, the students also got something out of it.
quantumfoundations.bsky.social
I defended my Physics PhD this week at the University of Oxford. What a great privilege it has been. Alhamdulillah!

Super grateful to Bob Coecke and Alexy Karenowska for supervising my doctoral work. Thanks to the Rhodes Trust and Magdalen College for the financial support.
quantumfoundations.bsky.social
'The prestigious Oxford Union voted by an overwhelming majority that Israel is an "apartheid state responsible for genocide" at a fiery event in which the society's president denounced Israel's war on Gaza as a "holocaust".'

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Oxford Union declares Israel an 'apartheid state responsible for genocide'
Union president denounces Israel's war on Gaza as a 'holocaust' at a fiery event where pro-Israel speaker was ejected for harassing Palestinian student
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