blake johnson

Summer 2005 007
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I got back yesterday afternoon from my first ever physics conference. The subject of the conference was “Manipulation and Control of Quantum Systems” and I learned about many cool projects going on while there. One might equivalently say that the topic was quantum computing, but the actual title of the conference probably better states the actual problems people are working on (you can’t build a quantum computer until you’ve learned how to manipulate a quantum system). The setting was also nearly ideal: a resort town situated on the side of a mountain which over looks a lake. You can see a view over the lake here. There are more pictures from my trip on flickr.