Dear quanta, This Friday at 11am will be our regular group meeting. Ryuji will talk about resource theories. John Napp was going to speak but will instead give a talk about gradients in variational algortihms on Wed, Nov 14, from 1:30-2:30pm. (room TBA) I'll also speak this Friday in Boaz Barak's class at Harvard: https://www.boazbarak.org/fall18seminar/ My talk will be a review of the Brandao-Kastoryano papers on preparing thermal states on quantum computers. Next Friday (Nov 16), we'll have Xun Gao from Harvard speak in our group meeting about his recent paper Efficient classical simulation of noisy quantum computation <https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03176> . aram _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip