As promised in a post last month, I have come to the QCTIP conference in Bristol. QCTIP stands for Quantum Computing Theory In Practice and the topic cover quantum computing from a largely mathematical and computer science point of view, with applications to various areas, including physics. As something of an outsider, I found the talks ranged from very understandable to pretty hard to follow. While online conference work pretty well for listening to and interacting with the talks, I wanted to attend in person so I could get to know some of the people working in the field, and get known by them. For that, I think it was worth coming. Particularly in the poster session, where I displayed a poster made by my student Isaac. There was a pretty constant stream of people coming up and talking to me. The idea that someone was applying quantum computing to nuclear physics was new to them, and they seemed genuinely interested. I was also reasonably reassured that our neophyte forays into quantum computing were along the right lines.
The conference is organized by the mathematics department at Bristol. As such, there are blackboards dotted around the building and people used them to discuss work during coffee breaks, as in the picture below
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