Quantum Foundations/Philosophy postdoc at Royal Holloway

Full-Time, Fixed-Term (until 31 August 2025)

Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Mathematics.

Christopher Fuchs, Jacques Pienaar, and Ruediger Schack are seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a recently awarded John Templeton Foundation grant to set up a three-year international consortium to explore, "What is Metrology if Quantum Measurements Participate in Making Reality?" QBism is part of the subject of research, but not exclusively so, as the grant is based upon a healthy debate between a number of parties.

While being based at Royal Holloway, the position will require a significant amount of travel each year to build synergy between the consortium nodes — Fuchs and Pienaar in Boston, Michel Bitbol at CNRS in Paris, the UFRJ experimental group in Rio de Janeiro, Adam Frank at the University of Rochester, Marcelo Gleiser at Dartmouth College, Richard Healey in Spain, Klaus Moelmer at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Eran Tal at McGill University in Montreal, Christopher Timpson at the University of Oxford, Harald Wiltsche at Linkoping University in Sweden, and Jun Ye at JILA in Boulder, Colorado. The position will come with a fairly large travel budget.

We are looking for either a philosopher with an interest in physics, or a physicist with an interest in philosophy. Either way, a researcher preferably sympathetic to developing connections between quantum interpretation and phenomenology (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty) and/or pragmatism (James, Dewey, Price, Brandom) and/or a Bayesian who can prove new quantum de Finetti theorems. (These preferences, however, are not an absolute requirement.)

Royal Holloway, University of London is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Ruediger Schack via R.Schack@rhul.ac.uk

Electromagnetic instability of compact axion stars
Liina M. Chung-Jukko, Eugene A. Lim, David J. E. Marsh, Josu C. Aurrekoetxea, Eloy de Jong, Bo-Xuan Ge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10100

Axion Star Explosions: A New Source for Axion Indirect Detection
Miguel Escudero, Charis Kaur Pooni, Malcolm Fairbairn, Diego Blas, Xiaolong Du, David J. E. Marsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10206

Dear Colleagues,

the university of Hamburg has a recent opening for PhD and Postdoc positions for generative machine learning in particle physics or astronomy:
https://inspirehep.net/jobs/2635409

Please consider applying or forwarding this posting to potentially interested candidates - the application deadline is April 1st.

best,
Gregor

TASI Lectures on the Particle Physics and Astrophysics of Dark Matter
Benjamin R. Safdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02169

Lectures may be found at https://www.youtube.com/@tasivideos4735/videos

Dear colleagues,

We invite applications for a PhD position with LHCb at CPPM in Marseille.

The detailed description can be found here:
https://inspirehep.net/jobs/2645436

Please contact Dorothea vom Bruch (dorothea.vom.bruch@cern.ch) for more
information.

Best,

Dorothea

Advanced UK Instrumentation Training 2023
(This year the programme will be open to participants outside of the UK)

Lectures are grouped into the following themes:

Semiconductor Theory
Electronics and DAQ
Mechanics and cooling
Fabrication and structures
Experimental techniques
TCAD electric field and transport simulations
Software tools
Short topics

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1277888/

Spectral distortions of astrophysical blackbodies as axion probes
Jae Hyeok Chang, Reza Ebadi, Xuheng Luo, Erwin H. Tanin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03749

This tutorial is an introduction to programming quantum computers with Amazon Braket. After an introduction and technical overview of the framework, details on how to use the AWS console will follow, together with an hands-on session. In order to insure a smooth and productive hands-on experience, places are limited, so please register if you plan to attend. Places will be assigned on a "first come first served" basis.

This event will take place in hybrid format.


https://indico.cern.ch/event/1283578/

This remote meeting will deal with issues related to Goodness of Fit and with 2-sample testing, especially in more than one dimensions. The talks will be by Particle Physicists and by Statisticians, and will include traditional and also Machine Learning approaches. This is a topic which is relevant to many Particle Physics analyses. It includes applications such as:

Is the current performance of our detector consistent with established norms?
Is my data consistent with the Standard Model expectation (or should I suspect New Physics)?
Are fast simulations consistent with full simulations?

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1258983/

For our location in Hamburg we are seeking:
PhD student working on the CMS experiment
Limited: 3 years | Starting date: earliest possible | ID: FHDO006/2023 | Deadline: position is open until filled | Full-time/Part-time


https://v22.desy.de/e67416/records202532/index_eng.html

DESY summer school
(in-person and remote)

فرصت خیلی خوبی هست برای دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد و کارشناسی سال ۳ به بالا.

قبلا به خاطر تحریم ها یا شاید مشکلاتی مثل ویزا از ایران کسی رو قبول نمیکردن. الان که مجازی هم میشه شرکت کرد احتمال قبولی بالاتر میشه.

دزی (DESY) یکی از قطب های فیزیک ذرات تجربی در دنیا هست.

https://indico.desy.de/event/39338/

Dear all,

This August we'll host a summer school "Picturing Quantum Weirdness" at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, as part of the Generation QI programme. The school is aimed at undergrad and master students, in the fields of Physics, Maths, and Computer Science, and taught by experts in the field from around the world.
You can check it out here: https://gqi.ug.edu.pl/schools/

In this summer school you’ll learn how to talk and reason about quantum theory via a newly developed pictorial representation of quantum processes. This new representation is friendly and intuitive to work with, but at the same time is provably equivalent to the old way of doing things. Using these ideas we’ll explore the breadth of quantum theory, from foundational phenomena and quantum resources to quantum computing and cryptography.

Registration deadline: 31.05 (https://gqi.ug.edu.pl/registration/)
School: from 7th to 19th of August.

The first week will be devoted to learning the diagrammatic framework, and the second week we'll apply that to current topics on quantum foundations and quantum information.

We will offer accommodation and some meals, and we have some travel funds for international students. Please let us know if you require any. The school is limited to around 30 in-person attendees, and online participation is also possible.

Please, feel free to spread the word to potentially interested students!

All the best,
___
Dr hab. Ana Belén Sainz, Prof. UG
Group Leader -- Foundational Underpinnings of Quantum Technologies Group
www.fuqt.eu, www.absainz.com

Dear all,

please take note and circulate the call below for two doctoral positions at University of Padova (joint with Kaiserslautern and Lulea, respectively) to work with Tommaso Dorigo.

Cheers,
Pietro

Dear colleagues,

please distribute the following information to any prospective graduate
student interested in a cutting-edge topic at the crossroads of HEP
and computer science:

The University of Padova has 44 openings for Ph.D. positions in Physics,
with a deadline on June 7. Of these, two joint Ph.D. positions with
computer scientists in Kaiserslautern (D) and Lulea (SE), respectively,
are of interest of participants to this group.

The call description is here:
https://www.dfa.unipd.it/didattica/dottorati-di-ricerca/phd-physics/
and the call documents are available at this link:
https://www.unipd.it/en/phd-courses-2023-2024

- The joint Ph.D. with Kaiserslautern will focus on end-to-end optimization
of particle detectors with differentiable programming pipelines;

- The joint Ph.D. with Lulea will focus on neuromorphic computing applications
to end-to-end optimization problems in physics.

Both positions involve a 50% increase of the monthly salary for the 18 months foreseen to be spent in the foreign institution. The hired students will also have access to significant funds for travel to conferences and schools.

More information is available in this blog post:
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/joint_phd_positions_in_physics_and_computer_science_available_in_europe-256624

You are also welcome to contact directly Tommaso Dorigo for specific
questions and clarifications (tommaso.dorigo@gmail.com).


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Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher, Universidad de Oviedo
https://vischia.github.io
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Quantum Summer School organised by Womanium, which is a non-profit organisation based in Washington DC.
The summer school will take place in July 2023, it’s completely online, opened to both undergraduates and postgraduates and it will have lectures and bootcamps on different types of quantum software and hardware platforms.
You can find more information on the website:

https://womanium.org/Quantum/Program

Free and online:

We’re excited to announce that Qiskit Global Summer School is *back* for 2023—this time with a foundational approach designed to empower new and experienced quantum learners alike. qisk.it/qgss23

Wolfram Alpha + ChatGPT Might Be The Chatbot Scientists Need

Stephen Wolfram:
"There are all sorts of exciting possibilities, suddenly opened up by the unexpected success of ChatGPT. But for now, there’s the immediate opportunity of giving ChatGPT computational knowledge superpowers through Wolfram|Alpha. So it can not just produce “plausible human-like output”, but output that leverages the whole tower of computation and knowledge that’s encapsulated in Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language."

https://lnkd.in/g7Fnjy5H

LIVE on 7 June 2023 14:00 CET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m4PgjlswfQ

Introduction to Generalized Global Symmetries in QFT and Particle Physics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00912