As part of the Cambridge-MIT Initiative in Quantum Information, a whole lot of Cambridge scientists went to Boston to meet up with our colleagues over there. We had a great time, despite it being -18 degrees celsius, but the warm hospitality made up for that.
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| Students shivering on the river. (L-R) Alastair, Sugi, Matthias and Lawrence. | Steps leading up to the entrance hall and the Infinite Corridor (which isn't actually that long. | The MIT dome. I rested my camera on a handy ledge. It was very blue as it was dusk. |
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| Attending a lab tour. Dimitris (forground) and Adrian (background). We had some interesting tours of the various experimental efforts in MIT. This was taken in Francis Wong's optics lab. | Conference. A group of us wanted to talk to Ed Farhi about his work on adiabatic algorithms and as the meeting went along, more people kept showing up. In was like a game of "Sardines" where the aim is to get as many people crammed into the one room as possible. | Boston Skyline. It warmed up during our week in Boston. It was still quite cold and bleak. |
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| Artur taught to suck eggs (figuratively). In the Museum of Science, there was a person (on left) demonstrating public key cryptography and he happened to stumble across our group (which included at least one world expert in quantum cryptography) and proceeded to "teach" us all about codes and ciphers. We played mum until the very end when he got a bit suspicious when we could trivially answer all his challenges. There were some representatives from RSA on hand with whom we had an interesting talk with. | Boston Common I | Boston Common II |