{"id":6143,"date":"2021-12-02T01:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2021-12-02T01:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:16:55","slug":"two-new-talks-and-an-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=6143","title":{"rendered":"Two new talks and an interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/talks\/sensitivity.pdf\">talk to UT Austin&#8217;s undergraduate math club<\/a> (handwritten PDF notes) about <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1907.00847\">Hao Huang&#8217;s proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture<\/a>, and its implications for quantum query complexity and more.  I&#8217;m <em>still<\/em> not satisfied that I&#8217;ve presented Huang&#8217;s beautiful proof as clearly and self-containedly as I possibly can, which probably just means I need to lecture on it a few more times.<\/li><li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/talks\/aar-china.ppt\">Zoom talk at the QPQIS conference in Beijing<\/a> (PowerPoint slides), setting out my most recent thoughts about Google&#8217;s and USTC&#8217;s quantum supremacy experiments and the continuing efforts to spoof them classically.<\/li><li>An <a href=\"https:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2021\/12\/256937-exploring-the-promise-of-quantum-computing\/fulltext\">interview with me in <em>Communications of the ACM<\/em><\/a>, mostly about BosonSampling and the quantum lower bound for the collision problem.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy y&#8217;all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk to UT Austin&#8217;s undergraduate math club (handwritten PDF notes) about Hao Huang&#8217;s proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture, and its implications for quantum query complexity and more. I&#8217;m still not satisfied that I&#8217;ve presented Huang&#8217;s beautiful proof as clearly and self-containedly as I possibly can, which probably just means I need to lecture on [&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_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":true,"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":[31,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-complexity","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\/6143","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=6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6144,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}