Oot and Aboot

I'm Canadian. 🍁 🏒 đŸĻĢ Since moving to the US, I've learned that Americans think we say "oot and aboot." For the record, it's more like "oat and aboat" — but I won't fight it.

TQC26 talk in Sherbrooke
TQC26 Talk, Sherbrooke — officially for the talks, really for the poutine.
QEC26 talk in Santa Barbara
QEC26 Talk, Santa Barbara — hosted by Google. Good talks, better tacos.
QuICS Seminar
QuICS Seminar, right before going to the best dining hall in the country
Guest lecture for the Quantum Steampunk course
Giving a guest lecture for the Quantum Steampunk course
Harvard group
My new group's a bit bigger than my last one
Ray and Kaius
When Ray and Kaius first met, one of my favourite photos
Kaius with the textbook
Kaius isn't a fan of the book
Giving a talk in front of a slide titled Noncommuting charges can increase entanglement and induce critical dynamics
I told the organizers I might have to miss this if my wife went into labour — luckily my son waited until after the talk to be born đŸ‘ļ
Receiving the John Brodie
Receiving the John Brodie
Panel discussion at the Quantum Connections Conference 2024 at IQC
Explaining why Canada is the best place to do quantum computing research, right before moving to the US to do quantum computing research
Yale talk
YQI Talk, Yale
Quirks and Quarks
I was on CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks
Institute for Advanced Study
On the set of Oppenheimer
Princeton
From my semester as a visiting student in Sarang's group, Princeton
Dinner
Dinner with Raymond Laflamme and John Preskill
Ray's birthday
I had the pleasure of organizing Ray's birthday conference, University of Waterloo
RQS workshop
RQS annual workshop, University of Maryland
InfoQ Seminar
InfoQ Seminar, Institut Quantique
Stanford
Visiting Xiaoliang Qi's Group, Stanford
Berkeley
After my Redwood seminar, Berkeley
University of Toronto
CQIQC seminar, University of Toronto
RQS seminar
RQS seminar, University of Maryland
Telluride
Post talk hike, Telluride
With Nicole and Ray
With Nicole and Ray