It is getting near the end of the summer holidays. Literally at the end for school kids with mine going back today and tomorrow, while university undergraduates have a couple more weeks to go before they are back in classes.
There is no automatic summer holiday for university-based academics in the UK, though summer is, for many of us, the easiest time to take the bulk of our annual leave allowance. It is not just research and community/admin activities that carry on in summer - there is teaching too. In particular the standard UK MSc programme lasts for a full 12-month long year with the summer months being taken up doing a final project.
I have been (co-)supervising 4 projects in nuclear physics and quantum computing, and I've been pleased to get two of the projects to get involved in providing some sample results for a paper for a conference proceeding that gives a summary of some methods for determining eigenstates and eigenvalues on a quantum computer. This means that two of my MSc project students are now co-authors on a publication with me. I'm not sure when the paper will appear in the official conference proceedings, but I've stuck it up on the University repository so that it is available to anyone to read. May I present ...
“Quantum Computing for Nuclear Structure”, Paul Stevenson, Chandan Sarma, Robbie Giles, Lloyd LaRonde, and Bhoomika Maheshwari, submitted to proceedings of 17th International Conference of Nuclear Structure Properties (NSP2025), Sivas, Türkiye (2025)
