Tag: astronomy
To See Black Holes in Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a Bat | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionUnlike many astronomers, Erin Kara didn’t grow up star-struck. “I don’t have that story of being that little kid staring up at the stars...
International Day of Women and Girls in Science: inspiring stories from Physics World – Physics World
With 2023 seeing the fifth woman in history to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics, Katherine Skipper considers what Physics...
News From Infleqtion: Inertial Sensors, Atomic Clocks, RF Receivers… oh, and 1,600 Qubits: by Brian Siegelwax – Inside Quantum Technology
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 09 Feb 2024 On February 8, 2024, Infleqtion held its inaugural webinar titled “Infleqtion’s...
Efficient classical simulation of cluster state quantum circuits with alternative inputs
Sahar Atallah1, Michael Garn1, Sania Jevtic2, Yukuan Tao3, and Shashank Virmani11Department of Mathematics, Brunel University London, Kingston Ln, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom2Phytoform Labs...
What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics? | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionWe tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its values, its usefulness and its workings are packed with...
From cosmic rays to cardiology – Physics World
Data scientist and artificial-intelligence researcher Azadeh Keivani talks to Tushna Commissariat about her journey from astronomy to healthcare, co-founding an educational non-profit...
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionIn the mid-1980s, like Walkman cassette players and tie-dyed shirts, the buglike silhouette of the Mandelbrot set was everywhere.
Students plastered it to dorm room...
Orthonormal bases of extreme quantumness
Marcin Rudziński1,2, Adam Burchardt3, and Karol Życzkowski1,41Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, ul. Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Kraków, Poland2Doctoral School of...
Photonics West lights up San Francisco – Physics World
Thousands of delegates from around the globe will converge on San Francisco’s Moscone Center to discuss and explore the latest innovations...
Arno Penzias: Nobel laureate who co-discovered ‘echo of Big Bang’ dies aged 90 – Physics World
The cosmologist Arno Penzias, who discovered the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with Robert Wilson, died...
Light fever: bringing disco to astronomy – Physics World
As well as bringing sparkle to the dance floor, could disco balls become a new educational tool in astronomy? Laura Hiscott...
Radio pioneers: the enduring role of ‘amateurs’ in radio astronomy – Physics World
In the latest Physics World Stories podcast, astrophysicist Emma Chapman is in conversation with host Andrew Glester about the history of...
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