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PQC & Math Culture with Krystal A. Maughan [UVM], [RQS - QSim]07 Aug 202500:47:44


Before you listen! Helpful Acronyms to deal with the jargon:

- PQC = Post Quantum Cryptography, area within quantum computing & cryptography where researchers are developing quantum-safe protocols resilient against quantum cryptography attacks.

- LDPC Codes = Low Density Parity Check, a type of error correction method

- Block Encoding = a technique used in quantum computing (see youtube link below!)


In this episode: Quantum Simulation program, Cryptography, & passionate community!

A conversation with the brilliant Krystal Maughan, PhD researcher at the University of Vermont doing innovative work on her research area of Post-Quantum Cryptography while we were attending the 3-day QSim RQS Summer School 2025! We talk on a range of topics observed in the quantum industry & research field and she provides a mathematician's perspective at Madison Square Park on a beautiful summer day right before her flight.



Enjoy this refreshing & insightful discussion!


Referenced Links from the talk:

- Her recent paper on "Cycles & cuts in supersingular I-isogeny graphs": https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00638


- Her Website: ⁠https://kammitama5.github.io/about/ ⁠


- Krystal Maughan's Research Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dhxYKqAAAAAJ&hl=en


- Bit Player documentary trailer: https://vimeo.com/323615460


- Nathan Weibe, University of Toronto Youtube Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpZLyXsdJnA


- QSim 2025 Speakers: https://qsimconference.org/summer-school/


"Choose Your Own Adventure" with Amir Karamlou (Google QuantumAI)30 Apr 202500:32:09

Happy *belated World Quantum Day (Week/Month/Year). This episode is about the journey that one can take in navigating and getting started in the quantum technology space.


This was recorded live at the NYU Abhu Dhabi International Hackathon for Social Good.


This episode I talk to Google QuantumAI's esteemed research scientist who was part of the Willow team - Amir Karamlou. We'll hear about Amir's journey and how hackathons can change the future of the quantum space.



Links:

  • Hackathon for Social Good, NYU Abhu Dhabi - https://hackathon.nyuad.nyu.edu


QC Zero to Hero Day 02727 Jan 202201:00:59

Links to resources used today:

Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c

Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent

QC Zero to Hero Day 02324 Jan 202200:35:29

Links to resources used today:

Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c

Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent

QC Zero to Hero Day 02223 Jan 202200:47:29

For some reason the audio was all weird for this recording and the recording cut off at the end before I finished up. That's okay though, I just went through the exercises for that video by myself and the summary I put down was "see day 14" because it was basically the same content

Links to resources used today:

Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c

Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent

QC Zero to Hero Day 01413 Jan 202200:17:09

Links to resources used today:

Also check out the Riemann zeta function content from 3B1B:

Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c

Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent


Superconducting Qubits with Jan Goetz – Episode 4509 Jan 202200:32:40

In which Jan Goetz teaches me about how superconducting quantum computers work.

QC Zero to Hero Day 003-00502 Jan 202201:00:19

Links to resources used today:

Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c 

Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent

QC Zero to Hero Day 001 & 00201 Jan 202200:25:29

If you're listening on the podcast version, so you don't waste your time I recommend using a podcatcher that can automatically skip silence like AntennaPod: https://antennapod.org/ (that's what I use!)


Links to resources used today:

  • https://jupyter.org/install
  • https://www.codecademy.com/article/how-to-use-jupyter-notebooks

Links for QC Zero to Hero:

  • Join the next meeting! https://meet.jit.si/moderated/dab76a5dc57f13ba62e454ebd1bc5ab3222ed7b0df78a860fe90e912c170378c
  • Download the curriculum! https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/zero-to-qc-hero/-/blob/main/Zero_to_QC_Hero_in_One_Year.ods.torrent
Humanizing Quantum Computing with whurley – Episode 4430 Dec 202100:36:56

In which whurley and I talk about the challenges and promises involved in bringing quantum computing to a wider audience

Cold Atom Quantum Computing with Paul Lipman – Episode 4324 Dec 202100:37:30
The Future of Quantum Computing with Scott Aaronson – Episode 4218 Dec 202100:52:12

The burden of proof lies on the side of the people saying quantum computing is impossible. Agree or disagree? In this episode Scott Aaronson talks about why he thinks it's true!

For the Love of Quantum09 Mar 202500:03:19

The return of the QCN podcast!! This episode was meant to release on February 14th!

Ethan's mic (quite literally) has been passed on to me, Shway, and I'll be the new host. I hope I do nearly as great of a job communicating the journey of learning quantum computing as he did...

Thank you my friend.

(Also congratulations to Ethan & his fiancée!!!!!)

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I procrastinated on posting this. Expect more episodes on quantum computing technologies, with hopefully less procrastination. And as always, stay curious!

Modern Quantum Programming with Roger Luo – Episode 4114 Nov 202100:38:49

In which Roger and I talk about Yao, mostly

Why Quantum Needs Classical with Itamar Sivan – Episode 4019 Oct 202100:36:02

Classical and Quantum – a match made in heaven. And in the labs of Quantum Machines.

Qubit Touchdown with Tom Wong – Episode 3920 Jul 202100:46:11

What the difference between football and quantum computing?

How much funding they each get – take that however you would like

Fact vs Fiction: Quantum Edition with Jon Skerrett – Episode 3805 Jul 202100:40:59

In which Jon and I debunk some common quantum computing myths and have a bit of fun in the process

Also Happy 4th of July everyone!

Cryptographic Agility with Mike Brown – Episode 3720 Jun 202100:38:27

In a world where quantum computers put the entire fate of encrypted messaging on the line, only one man can stop them… cue action shots and tense music

Just kidding of course, Mike Brown works with a whole company that can stop them! Listen to this episode to learn more about the real-world work that’s going on behind the scenes, and less about this awesome summer thriller movie concept I just came up with.

Call me, Hollywood ;)

Enterprise Quantum Software with Steve Reinhardt – Episode 3606 Jun 202100:52:49

Join Steve and I as we talk about the fact that quantum computing is different from high performance computing (among other topics). Real earth-shattering news you can only find right-here on quantum computing now.

Quantum Amplifiers with Dr. Olivia Lanes – Episode 3517 May 202100:35:31

Everyone always asks "what is a quantum amplifier" but never "how is a quantum amplifier." Well in this episode I got to ask just that! (or rather, how is an amplifier quantum?) Dr. Olivia Lanes was my incredible guest who taught me a lot about all sorts of hardware surrounding superconducting qubits, although we focused on quantum amplifiers for the most part.

Contributing to Pennylane with Jack Ceroni - Episode 3403 May 202100:40:50

Quantum computing and the space race share some commonalities if you ask Jack and I, but that’s not all we’re here to talk about today. Join Jack Ceroni and myself for a discussion of pennylane, QML, getting started with quantum, and what in the world are QNodes?

Coherence Times Longer Than My Attention Span – Episode 3319 Apr 202100:18:00

If only the progress of quantum computing could also help me not bounce from idea to idea like a pin ball...

The Quantum Encabulator01 Apr 202100:03:56

In which I give the details of an interesting project I’ve been working on

A Brief Inquiry Into the Nature of Giving Up01 Jan 202400:16:17

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Noisy Intermediate Scale Podcast - March Showcase – Episode 3121 Mar 202100:47:44

In which I play the first episode of the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/noisy-intermediate-scale-podcast

----- Notes from Michał’s Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13914305/1-what-quantum-software-engineers-do

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Nonlocal – March Showcase – Episode 3008 Mar 202100:12:10

In which I play a select segment from Nonlocal: a quantum computing podcast: https://nonlocal.libsyn.com/

----- Nonlocal’s show notes: https://nonlocal.libsyn.com/001-the-origin-of-the-mermin-peres-magic-square

  • The Mermin-Peres magic square is a simple game which is at the heart of many results in quantum cryptography and quantum complexity theory. In this episode, we trace the origin of the Mermin-Peres square back to two short papers by N. David Mermin and Asher Peres.

Mermin's paper: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.3373

Peres' paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(90)90172-K

Hosts: Vincent Russo (vprusso.github.io), William Slofstra (elliptic.space), Henry Yuen (henryyuen.net)

Theme music is WLIIAW by Vincent Russo

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ALL the Frameworks 2: Electric Boogaloo – Episode 29 [Basics]01 Mar 202100:41:40

In which I refresh the list I gave a while back and actually make good on the promise of talking about ALL the frameworks (because I speedrun 2 lists of them at the end of the show)

QOSF Showcase – Episode 28 [Hybrid]18 Feb 202100:42:12

In which Matthew Weiss and I talk about quantum spheres and Amir Ebrahimi and I talk about visualizing pulse generation.

Brandon Solo and Machine Learning with Tequila – Episode 2701 Feb 202100:48:03

In which Brandon and I spend a while chatting about his experience with the Quantum Open Source Foundation Mentorship program (which you can apply for now!), and the project he worked on as part of that. Make sure you listen until we start trying to describe code over audio ;)

Mike Strike and the Quantum Resistant Ledger – Episode 26 [Hybrid]28 Dec 202000:51:13

In which Mike and I talk about the reasons trust is so important in bitcoin & blockchain, how quantum computers could erode that trust, and why QRL allows that trust to be maintained, even in the face of a quantum threat.

David Gunnarsson and Dilution Refrigerators – Episode 25 [Hybrid]20 Dec 202000:42:21
In which David Gunnarsson and I talk about Dilution Refrigerators and what Bluefors does. What does Bluefors do? They make Dilution Refrigerators. Bluefors on thequantumdaily.com: https://thequantumdaily.com/?s=bluefors Bluefors website: https://bluefors.com/ Bluefors Twitter: https://twitter.com/bluefors_ltd Bluefors YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCazdtsAB-MFq3uyDEY7Ttdg/videos Dilution Refrigerators on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator Bluefors horizontal fridge: https://bluefors.com/products/lh-horizontal-dilution-refrigerator/ Cool technology enables quantum computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dx8TusDMB8 Bluefors LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluefors-cryogenics Bluefors Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluefors_oy/ Bluefors Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bluefors-Cryogenics-Oy-1379443058756958/ Spotify Wrapped: https://wrappedforpodcasters.byspotify.com/?id=fdbc91264dbd6155485a54d7fae73c4b265d9402a71ca1157e8f3833a240a351&utm_source=share_link&utm_medium=referral Quantum Chess: https://quantumchess.net Quantum Chess on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/453870/Quantum_Chess/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/ QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
Amir Naveh and Quantum Volume – Episode 24 [Hybrid]01 Dec 202000:50:00

Amir (VP of R&D at Classiq, a quantum software startup) and I talk about how Quantum Volume is measured and how we in the public should interpret the results that come from it. While the metric does have some flaws, it’s still a good general-purpose single-number way to compare devices.

Travis Scholten and News from IEEE Quantum Week - Episode 23 [Hybrid]10 Nov 202000:46:27
Dr. Christopher Savoie and Life Sciences – Episode 22 [Hybrid]29 Sep 202000:47:40
Reprogrammable Quantum Secure Hardware with Mamta Gupta - Episode 4714 Jul 202300:51:03

We've heard on the show before about software needed to secure devices in a post-quantum world, but what about the hardware? Mamta Gupta from Lattice Semiconductor is here to tell us all about that!

A note: at one point, Mamta talks about massive parallelism being the reason for quantum computing's speedup. As far as I can tell, it's not. I didn't think during the podcast was the best time to bring it up, but if you want to learn more, I recommend looking at the episode I did with Scott Aaronson and also the episode with Jon Skerrett

Michał Stęchły and QOSF – Episode 21 [Hybrid]05 Sep 202001:02:41
John Prisco and Quantum Cryptography – Episode 20 [Hybrid]30 Aug 202000:51:14
Zlatko Minev & Error Correction – Episode 19 [Hybrid]10 Aug 202000:59:06

I had a great time talking with Dr. Zlatko Minev in this episode! We got to talk about new quantum physics, error correction, and qiskit community, as well as quantum mechanics for doing the dishes

Peter Johnson & VQE - Episode 18 [Hybrid]03 Aug 202001:22:04

I had an excellent, thoroughly entertaining, and long chat with Peter Johnson from Zapata Computing. We got to talk a lot about VQE, quantum advantage, and new algorithms that try to squeeze performance out of quantum hardware. 

Nathan Shammah & Unitary Fund - Episode 1713 Jul 202000:41:06

Ethan talks with Nathan Shammah about unitary fund, open science, and science communication 

Johan Vos - Episode 16 [Interview]05 Jul 202000:32:26

In this episode I sit down with Johan Vos to talk about his new book Quantum Computing for Developers

Anisha Musti & Quantum Machine Learning - Episode 15 [Hybrid]23 Jun 202000:54:26

Ethan and Anisha Musti chat about what’s going on in the world of quantum, and Ethan learns a thing or two about quantum machine learning. 

Quantum Intuition - Episode 14 [Basics]29 May 202000:30:43

In this episode Ethan relinquishes the reigns to a guest: Quantum Intuition!

Also funny side-note: I tried to get a transcript using DeepSpeech and their default trained model. It went less than well

Anastasia Marchenkova - Episode 13 [Interview]18 May 202000:35:43

I had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Anastasia Marchenkova, a QC researcher/programmer/does-everything-extraordinaire at Bleximo to talk about how quantum computing has progressed, where it's going, and how it can be leveraged in the short term with NISQ devices


Junye Huang - Episode 12 [Interview]30 Apr 202000:37:49
Hello (again) World! - Episode 4613 Jun 202300:23:12

Guess who's back? Back again? Ethan's back! Tell a friend!

Abraham Asfaw – Episode 11 [Interview]17 Apr 202000:34:08

In this episode I sit down with Abe Asfaw to talk about all things qiskit, quantum computing education, and quantum programming. Oh and I hope you like interviews because I have a lot coming up :)

Season Two Intro – Episode 10 [General]02 Apr 202000:03:08
  •  The world is ending! I’m quitting podcasting! Quantum computing is still cool!
  • Wait what do you mean we aren’t playing two truths and a lie?
  • Oh and I forgot to mention, my brother did the updated cover art for season 2. Thank you!
  • https://twitter.com/1ethanhansen
  • 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com
  • https://thequantumdaily.com/
  • Happy April Fools’ Day!
Robert Sutor - Episode 9 [Interview]17 Feb 202000:43:41
QuantumFight2019 - Episode 8 [News]13 Jan 202001:02:11

Can you even call it "news" if it's 3 months old? Maybe it should be tagged with [olds]

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