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30/10/2009: Perimeter Institute has signed an agreement with the Universities of Queensland and Sydney, and Griffith University, to strengthen collaborative research in quantum foundations. Excellent, extra theorists to bother!
28/10/2009: Our paper on Anti-symmetrisation reveals hidden entanglement was published today in the New Journal of Physics. It's also been selected for inclusion in IOP Select— that's twice in one month! Nice work Alessandro, Marco, and Thomas!
20/10/2009: Ben Lanyon, or as I should now say, Doctor Ben Lanyon was awarded his PhD today. Many congratulations Ben, it is thoroughly well deserved!
17/10/2009: Tonight is the Canadian premiere of The Quantum Tamers, a documentary sponsored by the Perimeter Institute that features a dozen or so quantum folk from around the world, including our very own Gerard Milburn and Andrew—who are both waiting to see the film with some trepidation! Update. It was both fun and good! Whew, now for some drinks...
17/10/2009: For the Institute of Quantum Computing's open day, Andrew was part of a 6-person panel discussion on Quantum Information. A big thanks to Joseph Emerson for great moderation, film-clip DJ'ing and audience interaction.
15/10/2009: As part of the Perimeter Institute's 10th anniversary celebrations, Andrew was one of a 7-person panel discussing "Quantum to Cosmos", at the Mike Lazaridis Theatre in Waterloo. It was recorded by TVO and webcast. A big thanks to Australia's own Wilson da Silva for MC'ing, although he could have spared Andrew the "Crocodile Dundee" reference!
15/10/2009: Andrew was one of a 10-person panel discussing "The 10 Biggest Questions in Physics", at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto. It was recorded by CBC's Quirks and Quarks—which, along with ABC's Science Show are the two longest-running science shows in at least the English-speaking world—and will be broadcast sometime in the New Year. A big thanks to Jim Handman and Bob McDonald who made the entire event a lot of fun!
01/10/2009: Our article on Complementarity in variable strength quantum nondemolition measurements has been selected for inclusion in IOP Select! What does this mean? Well firstly it's very nice because articles are chosen by the editors, and secondly, for the next 365 days the article is free (as in beer), so go grab it now. Kudos to Marco and the team for writing such a good paper!
25/09/2009: There's a nice article today in New Scientist on work by Netanel Lindner and Terry Rudolph (another UQ Alumnus!), Photon 'machine gun' could power quantum computers . A fun read, and not just because of the comments from Terry and Andrew. (Gosh, that didn' take long, it's been slash-dotted already).
14/09/2009: Our paper on Complementarity in variable strength quantum non-demolition measurements was published today in the New Journal of Physics.
04/09/2009: There's a nice article today in New Scientist on some work by Jeremy O'Brien (a QT Lab Alumnus! We should get T-shirts made), and his team at Bristol, where they have repeated our 2007 Shor's algorithm experiment, replacing the free-space circuitry with integrated-optics. There's comments from Jeremy—of course!—and also from Dan Browne and Andrew, who were authors on the two earlier Shor papers.
28/08/2009: There's a great article today in The Quantum Times on Quantum information for chemistry and biology by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, which is a lovely intro—and I'm not just saying that because it briefly mentions our work!
25/08/2009: Ross McKenzie has a blog entry on Andrew's talk today at the CQIQC III in Toronto, entertainingly titled James Bond meets Niels Bohr. Nice one Ross!
18/06/2009: Ben Lanyon is the subject of a nice article today by Machines Like Us, "A quantum leap". (I've often wondered when people use this expression—do they realise it can refer to the smallest possible leap?). Look for the cool photo and the even cooler description of banging things!
24/04/2009: Our collaborator Alán Aspuru-Guzik was interviewed today in the Nature blog, The Sceptical Chymist and discussed our recent work on quantum chemistry on a quantum computer. Cool!
24/04/2009: Sven Ramelow, returns today to the University of Vienna, after a valiant research visit. It was lots of fun, Sven, and we hope you can come back soon!
27/02/2009: Our paper on Parametric downconversion and optical quantum gates: two's company, four's a crowd was published today in the Journal of Modern Optics.
07/02/2008: Well that went all too quickly. After a great visit, Prof. Aephraim Steinberg is returning to the University of Toronto—enjoy the spring weather Aephraim, and we'll have to get you back again soon!
02/02/2009: The dead-tree version of our paper on Quantum computing using shortcuts through higher dimensions appeared today in Nature Physics.
07/01/2009: Our paper on Experimentally generating and tuning robust entanglement between photonic qubits appeared today in the New Journal of Physics.
01/01/2009: Sven Ramelow, from the University of Vienna, has started a three month research visit. Welcome Sven!
07/12/2008: Our paper on Quantum computing using shortcuts through higher dimensions appeared online today in Nature Physics.
06/12/2008: Oh this is lovely. Look at the article listed immediately before ours on PhysOrg—can you believe we ranked more highly? Who knew we were more interesting than promiscuous Arts students?
05/12/2008: Today's PhysOrg has a nice article on our recent mixed-state quantum computing experiment: Quantum computing: Entanglement may not be necessary. Love the opening line: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that quantum computing must have entanglement."
01/12/2008: Matthew Broome has joined the QT Lab from the University of Warwick. Welcome Matthew!
13/11/2008: What a busy day! Our paper on Experimental Quantum Computing without Entanglement appeared today in Physical Review Letters.
13/11/2008: Our workshop on Integrated Quantum Photonics begins today at Couran Cove. Should be fun!
09/11/2008: Prof. Aephraim Steinberg, from the University of Toronto, has started a three month visit. Welcome Aephraim!
07/11/2008: Andrew has been made a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Goodness!
20/10/2008: Bojan Škerlak, from ETH Zurich, has started a five month research visit. Welcome Bojan!
30/09/2008: Again, that just flew past! After another great visit, Dr Thomas Jennewein is returning to the University of Vienna—come back soon Thomas!
01/09/2008: Alessandro Fedrizzi has joined the QT Lab from the University of Vienna. Welcome Alessandro!
14/08/2008: Dr Thomas Jennewein from University of Vienna, begins the second of two three- month visits with the QT Lab. Welcome back Thomas!
30/07/2008: After a most enjoyable 6 months with us, Dr Michael Goggin is returning to Truman State University—come back soon Mike!
29/06/2008: Quantum Information and Control in Queensland begins today in Palm Cove. Good physics, good folk and hopefully good weather!
24/06/2008: There is a write-up of our shrimp paper in Optics and Photonics Focus, Super-Vision for Mr. Shrimp.
20/06/2008: Andrew's profile is being featured on the front page of Nature Asia this week.
24/05/2008: There is a simply wonderful write-up of our shrimp paper by Andrew's favourite blogger, PZ Myers of Pharyngula fame, The superior eyes of shrimp. (And yes, he was Andrew's favourite blogger even before he wrote about our paper!)
23/05/2008: The New York Times reported on our shrimp paper! See A different viewpoint in the Science Section.
20/05/2008: Jeepers creepers! Scientific American reports again on the shrimp paper, Mantis Shrimp Has Built-In Shades.
19/05/2008: Well we're tickled pink that our shrimp paper has been reported in the National Geographic, or at least their website! See, "Weird Beastie" Shrimp Have Super-Vision.
19/05/2008: Well that was fun! Andrew was just interviewed about the shrimp by Red Symons for ABC Melbourne's morning radio show. Best, and most unexpected, question: "What would you do if you had genital-fingers?..." :)
17/05/2008: Sonja's got a great interview with Bob McDonald on the Canadian radio show, Quirks and Quarks, Mantis Shrimp's Super Sight, have a listen!
15/05/2008: ...And now there's a Softpedia article on our shrimp vision paper, Shrimp See All Types of Polarized Light. It's nicely written, but gets the same quote wrong as the Physics World article ... hmm!
15/05/2008: Gosh, a lot of people are interested in shrimp. There's an article in today's Science Daily, Weird Shrimp Has Astounding Vision, a lovely and comprehensive article in today's Physics World and Optics.org (although they do get one quote wrong!), Shrimp see a polarized world, and even a report in MSNBC, Giant shrimp can see beyond the rainbow.
14/05/2008: There's an article on our shrimp paper in the Nature blog The Great Beyond, Shrimp's super sight (also see the Scintilla link); at The Press Association, Shrimp with super-vision revealed; at UnderwaterTimes.com, Scientists: Mantis Shrimps See Beyond The Rainbow; 'A Completely New Concept Of Polarization Vision'; at Scientific Frontline, Scientists find weird shrimp has astounding vision; and even at The Today Show, Giant shrimp can see beyond the rainbow.
14/05/2008: Well that's nice! Our paper on optimal polarisation vision in shrimp is the number one pick in the blog by the PLoS ONE online manager, A blog around the clock.
14/05/2008: Our paper on The Secret World of Shrimps: Polarisation Vision at Its Best appeared today in PLoS ONE. Weird little beasties they are!
13/05/2008: There's a nice article in the Discover magazine blog on our shrimp paper, Freaky Shrimp Species Has Singular Sight, and in Reuters, Shrimp can see beyond the rainbow, which has also been picked up by Scientific American.
23/04/2008: Today's Nature Photonics features our qutrit-qubit experiment in a very nice Research Highlight, Higher-level control, doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.39.
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