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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Harry Buhrman (Quantinuum & U Amsterdam) telling us about quantum heuristics and the process of scientific discovery at the Quantum Informatics cdt launch event in Edinburgh.

Man on left of two screens showing title slide of talk on Quantum Heuristics, wood panelled wall behind

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

#CIUK day two kicked off with the @whpcanz.bsky.social breakfast, now Jason Nucciarone and Dominic Sloan-Murphy telling us about Ubuntu HPC

Jason left, Dominic right, large data projector screen with CIUK banner behind them

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#CIUK kicked off in the main hall first with Paul Walker explaining how to use immersion cooling in data centres and now Crispen Keable (Eviden) telling us how Jupiter HPC was built

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Posters are also good, break was busy with discussions. Asa explaining his joint work with @spacetimelassie.bsky.social on benchmarking @dwavequantum.bsky.social systems

3 men facing a poster with lots of text on it and some diagrams

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Getting going in the first session of the 5th CoSeC conference on day zero of #CIUK conference in Manchester ...

Screen projected saying CoSeC with two people at a lectern preparing for a talk.

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Christina Kerr from DSIT last speaker at the HPC-AI conference in Leicester, telling us about the UK government's 10 year compute plans.

Woman on right at lectern with title slide on left saying UK Government's AI Research Resource & 10 year compute roadmap.

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Hans Briegel telling us how to do GenAI with measurement based quantum computing. Lots of MBQC today, Richard Jozsa related it to IQP, and more from Elham Kashefi after lunch at #FQC2025 in Edinburgh, part of the #quantumfringe. (see alt text re colours in photo)

Man in front of a data screen pointing to diagrams of quantum circuits and qubits. The colours on the screen are phone generated resolving the projector alternating colours. It looks black on white to human eyes.

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Glasgow Science Festival @physicsstrath.bsky.social a little tricky to find us under building refurb but worth the effort for rocket building, detecting gravity, measuring time and other fun stuff

building with scaffolding over the entrance and a sign saying Physics

a lecture theatre of empty seats with numbers on the rows and a small paper rocket with a pink tail flying over them

lego kit interferometer with a man in a pale blue t-shirt adjusting the settings

a poster entitled TIMELORD TRAINING with images of Einstein, stip watches, the earth and his equation for time dilation

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Afia Masood (EPSRC programme manger) telling us about the UKRI DRI programme, at Durham HPC days durham.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hp...

woman on left speaking to a slide with four themes in blue green and grey squares

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Steph Foulds @gayladygrey.bsky.social presenting her poster on quantum walks at #BQIT 2025 in Bristol @qetlabs.bsky.social

Woman in light green top holding coffee mug next to poster with diagrams of quantum circuits and graphs of simulations

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Registration is open for Royal Society Discussion Meeting on: Quantum computing in materials and molecular sciences 6 - 7 Oct London royalsociety.org/science-even...

Same text as post on left, plus
"organised by Professor Vivien Kendon, Dr John Buckeridge, Dr Bruno Camino, Dr Alin Elena, and Sir Richard Catlow FRS"; graphic of qubit graph and section of graphene hexagonal lattice on right

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Shushmi from @physicsstrath.bsky.social presenting her poster on quantum benchmarking of D-Wave at #BQIT in Bristol

woman with brown skin in black top with white name badge on right of poster with blue poster board behind her

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

poster session B at #QCTIP on day one in Berlin

Row of poster boards stretching away in centre with two people in foreground discussing second poster in row. Portraits of academics hanging from wires above

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

At the IQN Quantum Tech Hub launch event in Edinburgh today - panel discussing space quantum links (funded by @ukri.org quantum tech programme)

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

solar eclipse coming on nicely through a colander

Shadow of a colander with pin hole images of partial solar eclipse, bight circles with a bite out of themc

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

#UCUelections it is time to vote for your reps! Have you posted yours yet?

letter being put into a red postbox held by hand on left

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

and the olliam followed with a superb set #CelticConnections

stage lit in blue and white with musicians partly lit in purple and audience in front

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Astro Bloc opening for the olliam at SWG3 - some great high energy fiddle playing

drummer, 2 fiddle players (women) and guitarist on small stage with red and blue lighting in front of standing audience

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

pressure drop overnight: storm Eowyn has arrived in Glasgow ... >70 mph wind gusts expected until 7 pm - stay inside folks if you are in this! @metoffice.bsky.social

barometer with dial showing last night's position in gold ariund 990 mbar and this morning's in red around 960 mbar

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

... and QSQW 2025 is all done! Big thank you to everyone for a great conference!

slide projected saying
Thank you for attending QSQW 2025! next to a group photo.

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Roberta Zambrini (@ifisc.uib-csic.es) telling us about quantum reservoir computing at day 4 of QSQW 2025 www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/

Woman on left in front of a marble column talking about a slide projected centre right explaining how machine learning relates to quantum reservoir computing

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Carolin Wille (Cambs Cavendish) discussing which quantum circuits are easy/hard to simulate classically

tall woman on left talking about slide projected right saying
II. Theoretical understanding
Quantum vs Classical computation
Simulating quantum circuits on a classical computer should be hard
But some known classes of quanum circuits can be simulated easily
-> Understand which classes of circuits are hard and why

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Claudia Benedetti (Milano) telling us about using genetic algorithms with quantum walks to determine the graph structure of networks day 3 of QSQW 2025 in Naples www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/

Woman standing at a lectern on left looking at a projected slide showing three graphs with 5 nodes

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Eva Marie Graaf (Imperial) telling us about non-Hermitian Bloch oscillations at QSQW 2025 www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/ on day two

Woman on left presenting slide projected centre right with two blue wavy W graphs on summarising results of Bloch oscillations wiout and with losses

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Peng Xue introducing her talk on non-Hermitian quantum walks opening day 2 of QSQW 2025 in Naples www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/

Woman at lectern in bottom left corner with slide projected centre right and marble and wood surrounding of the room. Slide has pictures of quantum walks.

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Rydberg expts session, this is Simone Notarmicola telling us about phase transition expts using QuEra hardware.

Man in red top on left with slide projected in centre and rows of red chair backs and heads of audience in foreground.

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Mandi, Jemma, @jbennett107.bsky.social Lara, Steph, @gayladygrey.bsky.social and me at QSQE 2025 www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/ in Naples - Mount Vesuvius in the background.

Five women lined up with buildings on the left and a volcano in the background, blue sky above with a few small white clouds on the right

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Taira Giordana telling us how to build quantum bernoulli factories in a photonic lab

woman at lectern on far left, slide projected centre right with colourful graph and bar charts

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

At QSQW2025 in Naples this week www.slam.unina.it/qsqw/ Here is Martin Stefanak (apologies for lack of correct accents in name) telling us about quantum walks on networks with hubs

nan at lectern on left with slide projected on right with graph of hubs and links. marble and wood room around with seatin_ for a panel

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

AQT CDT www.aqt.ac.uk welcoming prospective students at the first recruitment event for the first cohort starting Oct 2025 @physicsstrath.bsky.social

Banner on left for AQT cdt and people talking around poster boards in the centre and queuing for lunch on the right.

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Quantum hype over reaches again, to cover all of biology? (will not be submitting to - or reading - this journal)

Screen shot of email text saying:
Hi Viv,

You're invited to submit to Academia Quantum, a new open access journal publishing original research and review articles covering all areas of biology.

Papers are peer-reviewed in our fast and robust pipeline: the average processing time for accepted papers is 34 days. Accepted papers will be distributed widely across the biology field through Academia's 200M registered users and the

phone navigation icons showing top and bottom

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Good morning - Winter sunrise

pale sky with bright red clouds behind bare trees silhouette

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Nick Brown (Edinburgh @epcc.bsky.social) telling us about RISC-V CPUs - open source hardware now in widespread use

man waving arms around by lectern with big screen behind showing RISV-V-SIG photos and info, CIUK branded bannets either side

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

and here he is again this afternoon on the big stage

man below large screen with details of DINE-2 Durham Integrated next-gen Environment. CIUK branded banner at the side

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Alastair Basden telling us about the #quantumcomputing systems on offer as part of the Hardware and Enabling Software ExCALIBUR project, breakouysession at www.ukri.org/CIUK

man on right of display screen listing D-Wave and Quera hardware details undet Quantum Computing heading

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Good morning from Manchester St Peter's Sq.! Not sure why it needs a feature with water permanently running over paving stones - I mean you have the real thing most of the time in Manchester ...

Slab of wet paving stones raised with bench seat at side and yellow tram behind. White building with sun on and bare trees in background

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Women in HPC breakfast kick off at CIUK day two in Manchester www.ukri.org/CIUK.

Woman in front of slide projected between CIUK branded banners with diverse audience backs of heads in front.

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Richard Gunn, head of UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure, finishing his intro to the programme achievements and goals

man standing at lectern below large screen showing DRI 4 missions summarised:
Panel discussion:
Building FAIRer human-centric interoperable and sustainable DRI

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Sadie Bartholomew (Reading) telling us how to run climate aware HPC jobs at CIUK

woman standing below large screen with CATS software details on

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Tom Griffin welcoming delegates to CIUK day one www.ukri.org/CIUK.

man at lectern on right of large projected screen with CIUK banners on both sifes

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Sofia Oliveira (Bristol Uni) telling us about understanding drug resistance at the CoSeC conference www.scd.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/CoSeC-... in Manchester today

Women describing information about drug molecular structures illustrated on a slide projected to her right

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Waiting for James Millen (Kings College London) to tell us about his research in levitating nanoparticles and various applications at the Physics colloquium at Strathclyde Uni.

Title slide for talk saying
Neurormorphic detection and control of levitated microparticles for microscale thermodynamics with man standing below right

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Ross Grassie from the Edinburgh Quantum Software Lab telling us about their work, at the Quantum Computing Applications Cluster seminar @physicsstrath.bsky.social this afternoon.

man standing below a big display showing a workflow diagram

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

not very programmable, but definitely useful for computing

a slide rule on top of its grey plastic case

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Ahsan Nazir (Manchester Noisy Quantum Systems group) giving colloquium on strongly coupled system environment theory this afternoon @ Strathclyde Physics.

Man on lower right of projected slide saying Open quantum systems with a diagram of system (red square) inside environment (blue circle)

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Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

hmmm, instills the same sort of confidence and reassurance as "preparing to release sewage into storm drains"

Leaflet from:
SP Energy Networks
Important information
Preparing for a power cut

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