{"id":1130,"date":"2012-09-08T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2012-09-08T17:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T22:01:03","slug":"two-quick-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Two quick announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pennsylvania_Governor's_School_for_the_Sciences\">Pennsylvania Governor&#8217;s School for the Sciences (PGSS)<\/a>\u00a0was an incredibly-successful summer program for gifted high school students in my birth-state of Pennsylvania. \u00a0PGSS ran from 1982 to 2009 and then was shuttered due to state budget cuts. \u00a0A group of alumni is now trying to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/pgss\">raise enough private funds to restart the program<\/a>\u00a0(they need $100,000). \u00a0Please visit their site, watch their video, and make a small (or large) donation if you feel moved to.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ll be speaking at a workshop on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jqi.umd.edu\/workshop\/qis-2012.html\">Quantum Information Science in Computer and Natural Sciences<\/a>, organized by Umesh Vazirani and Carl Williams, to be held September 28-29 at the University of Maryland College Park. \u00a0This workshop is specifically designed for computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and others who <em>haven&#8217;t<\/em> worked in quantum information, but who&#8217;d like to know more about current research in the area, and to look for connections between quantum information and their own fields. \u00a0Umesh writes:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The initiative comes\u00a0at a particularly opportune moment for researchers in complexity theory, given the increasing relevance of quantum techniques in complexity theory &#8212; the 2-4 norm paper of Barak, et al (SDPs, Lasserre), exponential lower bounds for TSP polytope via quantum communication\u00a0complexity arguments (de Wolf et al), quantum Hamiltonian complexity as a generalization of \u00a0CSPs, lattice-based cryptography whose security is based on quantum arguments, etc.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hope to see some of you there!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Pennsylvania Governor&#8217;s School for the Sciences (PGSS)\u00a0was an incredibly-successful summer program for gifted high school students in my birth-state of Pennsylvania. \u00a0PGSS ran from 1982 to 2009 and then was shuttered due to state budget cuts. \u00a0A group of alumni is now trying to\u00a0raise enough private funds to restart the program\u00a0(they need $100,000). \u00a0Please visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}