{"id":4043,"date":"2018-12-27T02:35:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2019-01-28T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:31:45","slug":"announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m planning to be in Australia soon&#8212;in Melbourne January 4-10 for a friend&#8217;s wedding, then in Sydney January 10-11 to meet colleagues and give a talk.  It will be my first trip down under for 12 years (and Dana&#8217;s first ever).  If there&#8217;s interest, I might be able to do a <em>Shtetl-Optimized<\/em> meetup in Melbourne the evening of Friday the 4th (or the morning of Saturday the 5th), and\/or another one in Sydney the evening of Thursday the 10th.  Email me if you&#8217;d go, and then we&#8217;ll figure out details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-bill\/6227\/text\">National Quantum Initiative Act<\/a> is now law.  Seeing the photos of Trump signing it, I felt &#8230; well, whatever emotions you might imagine I felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frank Verstraete asked me to announce that the University of Vienna is seeking a full professor in quantum algorithms; <a href=\"https:\/\/personalwesen.univie.ac.at\/jobs-recruiting\/professuren\/detail-seite\/news\/quantum-algorithms-1\/\">see here<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m planning to be in Australia soon&#8212;in Melbourne January 4-10 for a friend&#8217;s wedding, then in Sydney January 10-11 to meet colleagues and give a talk. It will be my first trip down under for 12 years (and Dana&#8217;s first ever). If there&#8217;s interest, I might be able to do a Shtetl-Optimized meetup in Melbourne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[10,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-meatspace","category-announcements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","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=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}