{"id":396,"date":"2009-04-07T00:28:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T04:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2009-04-07T00:28:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T04:28:53","slug":"teleport-tunnel-adiabat-but-one-way-or-another-get-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Teleport, tunnel, adiabat&#8212;but one way or another, get there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule, I don&#8217;t post workshop announcements on this blog: if I did it for one, I&#8217;d have to do it for all, etc. etc.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve decided that an exception can be made, <em>if<\/em> the requesting party has won a bet against Stephen Hawking.\u00a0 And so it is that I, on behalf of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theory.caltech.edu\/~preskill\/\">John Preskill<\/a>, hereby encourage you to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eas.caltech.edu\/qis2009\/index.html\">Quantum Information Science Workshop<\/a> in Vienna, VA, from April 23-25, which has been hastily called in response to the report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eas.caltech.edu\/qis2009\/documents\/FederalVisionQIS.pdf\">A Federal Vision for Quantum Information Science<\/a>.\u00a0 The whole quantum information community is invited, but the deadline for the workshop hotel rate is <font color=\"red\"><strong>today!<\/strong><\/font>\u00a0 The <em>future of our entire field<\/em> will be decided at this workshop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should more quantum algorithms be discovered, or not?<\/li>\n<li>Is battling decoherence important, or unimportant?<\/li>\n<li>Are interdisciplinary insights needed from CS, physics, and other fields, or will a single discipline suffice?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re as hungry for the answers as I am, you won&#8217;t want to miss this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule, I don&#8217;t post workshop announcements on this blog: if I did it for one, I&#8217;d have to do it for all, etc. etc.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve decided that an exception can be made, if the requesting party has won a bet against Stephen Hawking.\u00a0 And so it is that I, on behalf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/396","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}