December 2024 - Qtcg

Fwd: PREMIOS REI JAUME I 2025. APERTURA PLAZO PARA NOMINAR
by Daniel Manzano 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

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Activation of Microsoft Account
by Juani Bermejo Vega 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

Dear all, I send you an UGR guide to activate your Microsoft Office account and use Microsoft products with our UGR license: Microsoft Office 365 | Centro de Servicios Informáticos y Redes de Comunicación <https://csirc.ugr.es/informacion/servicios/office365> You can use it (I think) in a pretty large number of devices. I do not know whether there is a hard limit (surely there must be one but I never hit it). Best, Juani

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Fwd: Study trip Leiden 2025
by Daniel Manzano 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear group. In May we’ll have the visit of a Netherlandian high-school students group. They ask for small talks about active research and many other things like "Benchmarking and modelization of quantum computer, Quantum Neural Networks, Quantum heat engines and the concepts of heat and work. solid state physics and electromagnetism also”. After the Christmas break we will split the work and start preparing small talks that we can also use in future Science Communication events and for teaching. Dani. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Manzano Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Computation Group University of Granada Facultad de Ciencias, Av. Fuentenueva s/n Granada 18071, Spain Phone: +34 958241000 Ext: 20569 https://ic1.ugr.es/members/dmanzano/ > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Bálint Bosman <studytrip(a)deleidscheflesch.nl> > Subject: Re: Study trip Leiden 2025 > Date: 19. December 2024 at 09:49:00 CET > To: Daniel Manzano <manzano(a)onsager.ugr.es> > Cc: Bálint Bosman <studytrip(a)deleidscheflesch.nl>, Juani Bermejo Vega <jbermejovega(a)go.ugr.es>, mskotiniotis <mskotiniotis(a)ugr.es>, Juani Bermejo-Vega <jbermejovega(a)ugr.es> > > Dear Daniel, > > Thanks for your reply. Good to hear that the 7th is OK for you. Our preference for topics/activities would be: > > - talks about any active physics research, including a brief intro for those unfamiliar (our participants are 2nd year bachelor up to final year masters students) > > on the QTC website I found the following to be particularly interesting: Benchmarking and modelization of quantum computer, Quantum Neural Networks, Quantum heat engines and the concepts of heat and work. > > Juani wrote about solid state physics and electromagnetism also. It would be ideal for us if we could combine these with QTC topics so we have a varied day. > > - Lab tours of physics labs (optics, acoustics, STM, spectroscopy). - HPC could be cool to briefly see but they should not be the main focus. > - Duration of ~09:30 to ~14:00 > > > We need a concept schedule to apply for grants, so If you have some talks in mind already it would really help us out if you could send those over. > > If I can clarify anything, please let me know > > Kind regards, > > Bálint > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:50 PM Daniel Manzano <manzano(a)onsager.ugr.es <mailto:manzano@onsager.ugr.es>> wrote: >> Dear Balint. >> >> We have talked and May 7th is OK. We’ll organise it in a way that Juani can deliver a talk before she has to go. We plan to give you small talks about the group’s research and a lab tour on our HPC facilities. >> >> If you have any preference about topics or activities just let us know. >> >> Best, >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Daniel Manzano >> Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Computation Group >> University of Granada >> Facultad de Ciencias, Av. Fuentenueva s/n >> Granada 18071, Spain >> Phone: +34 958241000 Ext: 20569 >> https://ic1.ugr.es/members/dmanzano/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 17.12.2024, at 10:32, Bálint Bosman <studytrip(a)deleidscheflesch.nl <mailto:studytrip@deleidscheflesch.nl>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear Juani, >>> >>> Thank you for your very helpful response. I hope you accept my sincere apology for not responding sooner. I will try to answer your questions as best I can and I am excited about the possibility of planning a visit >>> >>> > For this, we would need to know the core topics you are looking for. Any area of Physics? Any area of science? This is important to decide whether we distribute your inquiry to the entire Faculty or just the areas of Physics. >>> The students are 2nd year (university) bachelor up to final year Masters' students in both physics and astronomy. So the base level is 2nd year Phys/Astro and maximum level is end of masters phys/astro. Considering physics, i am especially interested in lectures about research in solid state physics and quantum computing. (research in Electromagnetism as you mentioned also sounds very interesting) As quantum computing is not taught in the bachelor but linear algebra and quantum mechanics are, it would be best to start at a low level and end as complicated (cutting edge) as you like. >>> >>> > Is your study program a general Physics program? In some countries, Physics & Astronomy is equivalent to our standard Physics program. If you have a specific focus on Astronomy, a great place to reach out would be the IAAA CSIC institute, which actually has a dedicated science communication section and collaborate with us. Manuel Gonzalez Garcia <manuelg(a)iaa.es <mailto:manuelg@iaa.es>> >>> https://www.iaa.csic.es/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.iaa.csic.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!T9f_md…> >>> Firstly, thanks for the suggestion. We are already planning on visiting the calar alto observatory but I will keep your suggestion in mind. To answer your question: yes, our physics program is general <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://studiegids.universiteitleiden.nl/en/stu…>, only including one introductory subject on astronomy. The astronomers however do have a lot of overlap with physics, including quantum mechanics 1 & 2 >>> >>> > Our Department is part of a supercomputing initiative. If we organize a "lab tour", we could show the students our HPC facilities (it is just a room with a computer) and show them how our cluster works. There is also this related HPC center in our city: https://supercomputacion.ugr.es/arquitecturas/albaicin/ >>> Thank you for the suggestion, however I think this is more fit for my colleague who does the {Computer Science + Mathematics} program. I think she is already working on this. >>> >>> > About dates, there is one problem, on the 7th of May I am cited for an administrative appointment I cannot skip at 12:30 in the morning. Is there any other possible date for you? >>> I have other visits booked for the other days, if it is really necessary I can try to move these. Tuesday the 6th, we are visiting ion traps as well as some astronomy workshops at UGR. The 7th is our last day in Granada and we will have a closing dinner in the evening, so I want to leave at approximately ~14:00. So the visit would be something like 9:30 - 14:00 (or whatever suits you best). Can we plan around your administrative appointment? >>> >>> Thanks for the cultural suggestions. >>> >>> >>> To briefly recap, we are looking for lectures about current university research and (experimental physics) lab tours from ~09:30 - ~14:00, including a lunch break. The goal of this visit is to expand the knowledge of participating students and also introduce them to international research. (The study trip also allows students to explore BSc/MSc projects abroad. ) Your suggestions of {quantum computing, solid state physics, electromagnetism } are all a good fit for our program. >>> >>> Finally one more thing. We need a concept schedule to apply for grants to finance our trip. If you have any preliminary draft (subject, speakers) you could help us out greatly >>> >>> I hope I answered everything, please let me know if I can clarify anything. And sorry again for the long wait. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Bálint >>> Program physics/astronomy >>> De Leidsche Flesch study trip 2025 >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 4:02 PM Juani Bermejo Vega <jbermejovega(a)go.ugr.es <mailto:jbermejovega@go.ugr.es>> wrote: >>>> Dear Balint and Heike, >>>> >>>> I include Daniel Manzano in cc, who is also a PI in our group. We spoke and we confirm that our group can organize some activities. For instance, some lectures explaining the basis of quantum computing/info/thermo and show them the High Performance Computing facilities Proteus. >>>> >>>> Please let us know how many activities you would need from us. We have a big group and several of us are available on this date. We can propose several lectures if needed. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Juani >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> El mié, 4 dic 2024 a las 11:07, Juani Bermejo Vega (<jbermejovega(a)go.ugr.es <mailto:jbermejovega@go.ugr.es>>) escribió: >>>>> Dear Balint and Heike, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for contacting us. We should be able to organize some lectures for this kind of activity. Several of our group members are frequently involved in outreach & communication. As Michalis says, we are part of the quantum information & computation group of the Condensed Matter Department, there is no actual Physics Department in our Faculty. Our Department and other Physics Departments form part of the UGR Faculty of Sciences, which includes us but also other areas outside of Physics. >>>>> >>>>> We can however distribute your call to potentially interested researchers from other Departments. For this, we would need to know the core topics you are looking for. Any area of Physics? Any area of science? This is important to decide whether we distribute your inquiry to the entire Faculty or just the areas of Physics. >>>>> >>>>> Some colleagues from the Faculty participated in the organization of a science communication festival last year (Festival UGR Solidaria 2024). I am sure they would gladly participate in this or help to distribute. >>>>> >>>>> Is your study program a general Physics program? In some countries, Physics & Astronomy is equivalent to our standard Physics program. If you have a specific focus on Astronomy, a great place to reach out would be the IAAA CSIC institute, which actually has a dedicated science communication section and collaborate with us. Manuel Gonzalez Garcia <manuelg(a)iaa.es <mailto:manuelg@iaa.es>> >>>>> https://www.iaa.csic.es/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.iaa.csic.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!T9f_md…> >>>>> >>>>> Our Department is part of a supercomputing initiative. If we organize a "lab tour", we could show the students our HPC facilities (it is just a room with a computer) and show them how our cluster works. There is also this related HPC center in our city: https://supercomputacion.ugr.es/arquitecturas/albaicin/ >>>>> >>>>> About dates, there is one problem, on the 7th of May I am cited for an administrative appointment I cannot skip at 12:30 in the morning. Is there any other possible date for you? >>>>> >>>>> On the 16-17th May there is a science communication festival in the city, the Desgranando Ciencia. It is mostly in Spanish but there might be chances to organize side communication activities around that. The email of the association who organizes this is Desgranando Ciencia <desgranandociencia(a)gmail.com <mailto:desgranandociencia@gmail.com>> >>>>> >>>>> "Can you recommend any companies in the neighbourhood that would be interesting to visit?" >>>>> Could you be more specific? >>>>> >>>>> " Do you have any other recommendations both academically or culturally?" >>>>> The festival afore mentioned. The Museo de Ciencias de Granada. Perhaps this activity: >>>>> https://www.albaicin-granada.com/visita-guiada-especializada-paseo-matemati… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.albaicin-granada.com/visita-guiada-…> >>>>> >>>>> I also recommend reaching out to Desgranando, Óscar Huertas Rosales <huertasrosales(a)gmail.com <mailto:huertasrosales@gmail.com>> (coorganizer) and this associacion: >>>>> https://hablandodeciencia.com/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hablandodeciencia.com/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!…> >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Juani >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> El lun, 2 dic 2024 a las 15:39, mskotiniotis (<mskotiniotis(a)ugr.es <mailto:mskotiniotis@ugr.es>>) escribió: >>>>>> Dear Bálint. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you for contacting us and we are looking forward to having you in our beautiful city of Granada. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, in order to be able to facilitate your visit you need to be aware of a few things, chief of which is that at Uni Granada there is no such thing as a physics department. Physics groups (as well as chemistry and biology groups) are separate entities all of which belong to the faculty of science. As such Dr. Juani Bermejo Vega and myself can only be of assistance to you with regards to what pertains our department (Electromagnetism and Material Physics). For the rest of the physics departments you will have to contact the relevant people. Below is a list of all departments at the Faculty of Science of UGR. >>>>>> >>>>>> https://fciencias.ugr.es/en/faculty/departments >>>>>> >>>>>> Our suggestion would be to have a faculty member write to those departments that you are interested in (preferentially the secretary or the head of the department) so as to have a higher chance of receiving a response. >>>>>> >>>>>> You should also be aware that Astrophysics is not physically at the faculty of Science but in another location in the city. >>>>>> >>>>>> From our side, we would be happy to host you if you so decide to visit our department and we can talk to the various research grooups within our department in order to better organise your visit. >>>>>> >>>>>> I hope this helps you with your planning >>>>>> >>>>>> Sincerely >>>>>> >>>>>> Michalis Skotiniotis >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2 Dec 2024, at 10:11, Bálint Bosman <studytrip(a)deleidscheflesch.nl <mailto:studytrip@deleidscheflesch.nl>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Dear Dr. Michalis Skotiniotis, >>>>>>> Dear Dr. Juani Bermejo-Vega, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We are organising a university study trip (1, more below) to Granada and we are wondering if you could help us in organising interesting educational activities such as lectures, lab tours or workshops. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Dr. Jordi Tura gave us your contact information, because he thought that you might be able to help us out. We are writing on behalf of De Leidsche Flesch, which is a study association run by students at Leiden University in The Netherlands. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The students attending will be Astronomy & Physics students between 2nd year bachelor and final year of masters. Additionally, a university teacher will also join. Ideally, lectures start with a brief crash course, after which we are very interested to learn about the interesting research in your group(s)! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We are looking for educational programme on the 7th of May 2025, specifically in the morning >>>>>>> Would you be able to give us a lecture or a tour, etc. of the university for approx. 25 students? >>>>>>> Do you know of any colleagues who might be able to give us a lecture or a tour? >>>>>>> Can you recommend any companies in the neighbourhood that would be interesting to visit? >>>>>>> Do you have any other recommendations both academically or culturally? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks in advance for your time, >>>>>>> we hope to hear from you soon! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Kind regards, >>>>>>> Bálint Bosman (Programme coordinator Physics & Astronomy) >>>>>>> Haike van Thiel (Programme coordinator Mathematics & Computer Science) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1 In this two week study trip, students from Leiden partake in guest lectures, visit academic institutes, companies and cultural activities to enrich their academic and cultural knowledge. Through these visits, students can explore opportunities to do their Minor/Masters/PhD abroad >>>>>> >>

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Supercomputer
by Daniel Manzano 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear group. We’ve been offered unlimited computing time in Picasso supercomputer, that is 10x more powerful than Proteus. You can get access to it by filling this form https://www.scbi.uma.es/web/es/registro/ This is the data you need to fill it up. There are two slides, the first one regards me (Responsable) and the second you (usuario). 1st one: Nombre: Daniel. Apellidos: Manzano Diosdado Centro/Institución: Universidad de Granada Departamento: Electromagnetismo y Física de la Materia Ciudad: Granada. Teléfono: 958241000 - 20569 País: España Email: manzano(a)onsager.ugr.es <mailto:manzano@onsager.ugr.es> Código Paidi: FQM411 2nd One: Relación laboral con el investigador principal: (Here you write your position, Phd, Postdoc, Master Student, co-PI, …) The rest is your personal data. Once you submit the application I have to validate it and then they send you a contract that has to be signed for both of us. There is a user manual in the webpage that is very useful, and the technician that contacted me is very active and decisive so we can ask him for help. More specifically, if you need any library to be installed just let me know. Happy computing!! Dani. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Manzano Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Computation Group University of Granada Facultad de Ciencias, Av. Fuentenueva s/n Granada 18071, Spain Phone: +34 958241000 Ext: 20569 https://ic1.ugr.es/members/dmanzano/

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Fwd: [dasci] PyData Granada. 10º Meetup. 19 de diciembre
by Daniel Manzano 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Oscar Huertas-Rosales <oscar.huertas(a)ugr.es> > Date: 18 December 2024 at 14:05:06 CET > To: Dasci <dasci(a)listas.ugr.es> > Subject: [dasci] PyData Granada. 10º Meetup. 19 de diciembre > > > Estimados/as todos/as, > > ¿Has trabajo para un proyecto en distintos Notebooks, o con compañeros? Seguro que te suena el no tener claro qué resultados son de qué modelo, o dónde está cada uno, puede ser un caos. > > En este caso, seguro que te gustará esta charla que nuestro compañero Daniel Molina dará el próximo 19 Jueves, a las 18:30 dentro del PyData Granada sobre MLFlow. > > El evento se celebra en la sede de ELCA en la calle Andrés Segovia, 53, 3B, Granada. > > MLflow es una herramienta libre, que con unas pocas líneas permite subir los resultados a un almacén centralizado, para ser consultado siempre que quieras. Pero ofrece mucho más: controlar y reproducir experimentos, gestionar entrenamientos, ... Además, MLflow es flexible, se puede usar sin que tengas que cambiar cómo trabajas. > > En esta charla introduciremos MLflow desde un enfoque práctico, mostrando cómo se puede usar en distintos escenarios.a > > Ánimate, es el tipo de herramientas que cuando la descubres desearías haberla conocido antes, empieza desde ya. > > -- > >

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Charlas divulgativas
by Daniel Manzano 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

Dear group, I have a message for the Spanish speaking subgroup. Como ya sabéis el año que viene, 2025, es el Año Internacional de la Física Cuántica. Desde la red de Tecnologías Cuánticas y Quantum Spain están organizando (muy tarde) actividades divulgativas (en español). Como grupo de cuántica debemos participar de estas actividades, que además son divertidas y vienen bien para el CV. Ahora mismo nos proponen hacer una lista con dos tipos de actividades en las que quisiéramos participar. 1. Charlas largas para dar en institutos o en eventos como Pint of Science. 2. Microcharlas de 10 minutos para eventos divulgativos. Pensad en títulos de charlas que podáis dar para hacer una lista que luego se mandarán a los responsables de la red. Vamos a intentar tener la lista para cuando volvamos de vacaciones. Como no es mucho trabajo basta con que me mandéis los títulos a mí y yo los añado a la lista. @Michalis, un amigo que trabaja en un instituto me ha pedido una charla sobre criptografía cuántica. ¿Tú dominas ese tema? Best, Dani. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Manzano Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Computation Group University of Granada Facultad de Ciencias, Av. Fuentenueva s/n Granada 18071, Spain Phone: +34 958241000 Ext: 20569 https://ic1.ugr.es/members/dmanzano/

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Sick day
by Daniel Manzano 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Dear group. My daughter is sick and I’ll stay home to take care of her. Please, proceed with the group meeting and let me know if there is anything I should take care of. I’ll be back in office tomorrow. Dani. Sent from my iPhone

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Fwd: Season Finale - ZX Seminar 12/16
by Filipa Cavaco Peres 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

This will take place next Monday. It should be interesting. Filipa ---------- Forwarded message --------- De: Sarah Li (via zx-calculus Mailing List) <zx-calculus(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk> Date: sexta, 13/12/2024 à(s) 09:12 Subject: Season Finale - ZX Seminar 12/16 To: zx-calculus(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk <zx-calculus(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk> Hi everyone, On Monday, December 16th at 2 pm UK time, Daniel Bochen Tan <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6CORr… > from Harvard University will talk about "A SAT Scalpel for Lattice Surgery: Representation and Synthesis of Subroutines for Surface-Code Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.18369__;!!D9dNQwwGXt… >". More details are below. See you next week! --------------------------- Talk Info ------------------------- *Zoom link: **https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/84274345430__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!X25ygGE257ExlZ1T6WPfHmBloIoxxGwN9A729LDkONVf9HDW586ZbIQXuG8nusENkzIJ33hruvGaj4GldMEHmWxD8s1BBw$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/84274345430__;!!D9dN… >* *Time: *9 - 10 am ET = 2 - 3 pm UK = 3 - 4 pm Netherlands *Abstract: *Quantum error correction is necessary for largescale quantum computing. A promising quantum error correcting code is the surface code. For this code, fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) can be performed via lattice surgery, i.e., splitting and merging patches of code. Given the frequent use of certain lattice-surgery subroutines (LaS), it becomes crucial to optimize their design in order to minimize the overall spacetime volume of FTQC. In this study, we define the variables to represent LaS and the constraints on these variables. Leveraging this formulation, we develop a synthesizer for LaS, LaSsynth, that encodes a LaS construction problem into a SAT instance, subsequently querying SAT solvers for a solution. Starting from a baseline design, we can gradually invoke the solver with shrinking spacetime volume to derive more compact designs. Due to our foundational formulation and the use of SAT solvers, LaSsynth can exhaustively explore the design space, yielding optimal designs in volume. For example, it achieves 8% and 18% volume reduction respectively over two states-of-the-art human designs for the 15-to-1 T-factory, a bottleneck in FTQC. *Joint-Work With:* Murphy Yuezhen Niu and Craig Gidney

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Seminario viernes 13
by Daniel Manzano 12 Dec '24

12 Dec '24

Hola. Mañana tendremos un seminario técnico donde se explicarán distintas herramientas de HPC. El nivel es apto tanto para investigadores como para estudiantes. Aquí la info: Fecha y hora: Viernes 13 de Diciembre, 11:00. Lugar: Laboratorio de Física Computacional. Planta baja del edificio de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. Título: Programming and optimization for high performance scientific computing Ponentes: Jara Juana Bermejo Vega and Noelia Sánchez Gómez Resumen: We give an introduction to some software tools for high performance programming and optimization. We will begin showing how to setup clean developer environments to work remotely on a custer using Visual Studio Code, SSH and git. We review how to setup C/C++ projects and Python environments for scientific computing. We will review how to optimize our code using the GCC compiler, hardware specific compilers, Python Numba, the OpenMP framework. We will explore how to use Scalene, a profiler that provides insights into the resource usage of our jobs. We will explain how to use SLURM on the Proteus cluster to efficiently submit jobs to different nodes and GPUs. Finally, we will explain how to use an optimized high-performance quantum circuit simulator, QSim, on a heterogenous cluster on multi-CPUs and GPUs. Saludos. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Manzano Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Computation Group University of Granada Facultad de Ciencias, Av. Fuentenueva s/n Granada 18071, Spain Phone: +34 958241000 Ext: 20569 https://ic1.ugr.es/members/dmanzano/

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Fwd: [BULK] [qipc.spain] New QS Seminar | Dec. 17th @4pm | Vedran Dunjko
by Daniel Manzano 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: TalentQ <javier.bouzas.arufe(a)usc.es> > Date: 10 December 2024 at 12:08:04 CET > To: qipc.spain(a)listas.csic.es > Subject: [BULK] [qipc.spain] New QS Seminar | Dec. 17th @4pm | Vedran Dunjko > Reply-To: TalentQ <javier.bouzas.arufe(a)usc.es> > > Speker: Vedran Dunjko > > Title: Topics in quantum topological data analysis > > Abstract: Although still arguably an emerging field in classical machine > learning, topological data analysis has already raised substantial interest > from the perspective of quantum algorithms in the last few years, and for good > reasons. In this talk we will explain why this is the case. We will introduce > the topic of topological data analysis and discuss the state-of-art of quantum > algorithms for computational problems in TDA - this will include the problems > of estimating the so-called Betti numbers and the problems of deciding > pursuance of topological features in data. We will address their promises and > limitations, possible generalizations and connections to many-body physics. > > Registration: > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.talentq.es/es_es/evento/talentq-sem…

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