{"id":1321,"date":"2013-04-14T18:31:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T23:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2016-12-10T04:40:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T09:40:54","slug":"qstart-conference-in-jerusalem-june-24-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"QStart conference in Jerusalem, June 24-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/qstart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1322\" src=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/qstart-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"qstart\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friend-of-the-blog Dorit Aharonov asked me to advertise the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.as.huji.ac.il\/q-start\">QStart Conference<\/a>, which will be held at Hebrew University of Jerusalem June 24-27 of this year, to celebrate the opening of Hebrew University&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/qcent.huji.ac.il\/\">Quantum Information Science Center<\/a>.\u00a0 Speakers include Yakir Aharonov, Jacob Bekenstein, Hans Briegel, Ed Farhi, Patrick Hayden, Ray Laflamme, Elon Lindenstrauss, Alex Lubotzky, John Martinis, Barbara Terhal, Umesh Vazirani, Stephanie Wehner, Andrew Yao &#8230; and me, your humble blogger (who will actually be there with Lily, on her first trip abroad&#8212;or for that matter, beyond the Boston metropolitan area).\u00a0 Dorit tells me that the conference should be of interest to mathematicians, physicists, chemists, philosophers, and computer scientists; that registration is open now; and that student travel support is available.\u00a0 Oh, and if you&#8217;re one of the people who think quantum computing is bunk?\u00a0 As displayed on the poster above, leading QC skeptic Gil Kalai is a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>co-organizer<\/strong><\/span> of the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend-of-the-blog Dorit Aharonov asked me to advertise the QStart Conference, which will be held at Hebrew University of Jerusalem June 24-27 of this year, to celebrate the opening of Hebrew University&#8217;s new Quantum Information Science Center.\u00a0 Speakers include Yakir Aharonov, Jacob Bekenstein, Hans Briegel, Ed Farhi, Patrick Hayden, Ray Laflamme, Elon Lindenstrauss, Alex Lubotzky, John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","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=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}