It's my first time in Naples and I'm here for the Quantum Simulation and Quantum Walks conference. I was sent an email about the conference a while ago, and while I do not work directly in Quantum Walks, I'm interested enough in them, and I do work in quantum simulation. I think, after having sat through the first day, that I am slightly here under false pretences and the quantum simulation talks generally have some kind of link to the idea of quantum walks or quantum cellular automata. Well, I submitted an honest abstract, and they selected it for a talk, so ... hopefully they will like it when I give it on Thursday morning.
I don't really know anyone here – at least I didn't when I arrived, but at least have managed to talk to some people, including someone who turns out to be married to one of my colleagues at Surrey. Small world, eh? Well, perhaps not surprising that two academics working in a similar are should be married, I suppose.
I arrived in the mid-evening yesterday, after sunset. There was a prominent moon, with Jupiter visible just below, so I made use of the fact that if you can set your phone somewhere quite still, then it does a pretty good job of capturing nightime scenes with a long exposure. It helped that the silhouette of Mount Vesuvius was in the shot:
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