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Scientist, Squirrel Parent, Office Gardener. Tweets are my own, my opinion is mostly constructed in your mind.

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joined June 2019
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Do not miss the opportunity to join the CATL symposium on High-Throughput Catalysis at #ACSFall2024! Abstracts are accepted till April 1st. We will have speakers from industry and academia: lively discussions assured, as well as poster and presentation awards! See you in Denver!
Present your #research to the global #chemistry audience during #ACSFall2024. Find a complete list of topics online & submit your work by April 1. Learn more at brnw.ch/21wHLhq #Chemistry #Research #Science
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Even more succinct: Q-NEXT @argonne, interconnects and materials C2QA @BrookhavenLab, beyond NISQ with superconductors SQMS @Fermilab, superconductors for sensing & computing QSA @BerkeleyLab, advancing atomic & superconducting processors QSC @ORNL, topological materials
Succinct mission summaries for the 5 DOE QIS Centers. science.osti.gov/Initiatives…
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WFH hack: start a flight in Flight Simulator on your third monitor, have the AI takeover, and enjoy the flight while you work.
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I have a quantum computing joke, but it will take you at least from 5 to 15 years to get it.
I have a quantum computing joke, but it may have decohered.
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The trillion dollar question. Why are COVID cases increasing while deaths are decreasing? The answer is simple. It's called Simpson's paradox and it's the result of incorrectly pooling data and arriving at a false conclusion. A thread 1/9 #COVID19 #ThursdayThoughts
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In sum: eff these effing effers, please vote this November.
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This is really good.
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Thanks to tenure and a crummy retirement plan, layoffs will leave us with a Baby Boomer faculty operating in an online teaching environment, with 75% of IT laid off. But there will be football!
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Ready for the next #QRST? We are pleased to host Artur Izmaylov, from @chemuoft, and Max Henderson (@QxMax), from @rigetti. Next May 27 at 11 a.m. EDT. Registration in the following link 👇 eventbrite.ca/e/quantum-rese…
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Logging on to a videoconferencing session, the grad student squeezes himself into the one remotely clean corner of his apartment.
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🏁2 hours to go! Today, 11:00 a.m. EDT, 1st #QRST! Registration here 👇 eventbrite.ca/e/quantum-rese…
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📢The first QRST seminar will be on April 29 at 11 a.m. EDT (5 p.m. CET). It will consist of two 30 min talks given by Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers (@dallairedemers), from @ZapataComputing, and Jakob Kottemann, from #MatterLab group (@UofT).
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A comic strip tour of the wild world of pandemic modeling --> 53eig.ht/3ebut9O
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Hello #QuantumTwitter! Quantum Research Seminars Toronto (QRST) is a series of short seminars about research in quantum computing. We are setting the final details of the first seminar and announce some details soon. Stay tuned! #MatterLab @ZapataComputing @UofT
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📢 #CCCE2020 has been cancelled. The CSC board and organizers of #CCCE2020 #Winnipeg have made the difficult decision to cancel the conference based on the recommendations of 🇨🇦 public health guidelines on #COVID19. We have threaded more information below 🧵⬇️: [1/7]
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#UofT's Peter Wittek will be remembered Feb 3 @rotmanschool. "Peter's loss is keenly felt," said Prof Ken Corts. Peter was the Founding Academic Director @creativedlab Quantum Stream, MMA instructor, data scientist in residence, contributor & colleague. uoft.me/57K
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And here's a useful follow-up editorial about @Ole_B_Peters and #ErgodicityEconomics at @Nature, published today: "If resources are finite, how can economic growth be indefinite?" nature.com/articles/s41567-0…
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Thanks to all the participants, judges, mentors, and volunteers that made #QHACK🦆 @XanaduAI such an INCREDIBLE experience, and congratulations to all the winners! Safe travels everyone, until next time 🎇🎊
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