@richardkueng
Quantum computer scientist @jkulinz.bsky.social, coin tossing enthusiast, armchair historian and aspiring subsistence farmer. Lived and worked in Switzerland, the UK, Germany, Australia and the US. Team-webpage: www.jku.at/iicqc
The Qalypso School on Quantum Science in Malta returns for its 3rd edition Aug 31 - Sep 4 this year! 🏖️
We have a great line up of lecturers covering Quantum Optimisation, Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Gibbs Sampling.
Pre-registrations opens today at forms.gle/3NkMJ3Br9V8b...
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go Tanja, go! Herzlichen Glueckwunsch -- wahrlich wohlverdient!
proud of the lineup as well. So many smart+nice people!
(left) how it started: -10°C and a snowstorm in my Austrian home village 🌨️☃️;
(right) how it's going: +34°C and burning hot sunshine in Natal, Brazil ☀️🌴.
It never ceases to amaze me how far modern airtravel can get us. Also, excited for our school+workshop in Natal 🇧🇷: www.iip.ufrn.br/en/events/qu...
go team qudits!
Highlight of the day: a crochet workshop for our team at @jku.at. Featuring topology, sloths, tea, cookies and, most importantly, hands-on practice with hook and yarn. Go team!
Way to go Joerg Schmiedmayer! Congratulations. As a fellow Austrian, I'm happy that @tuwien.at managed to convince Joerg to come back to Austria and do his research here in Austria. :-)
It's my first time as PC chair and I am proud of the programme committee we managed to assemble: qctipconf.github.io/submission
This year's Quantum Computing Theory in Practice Conference (QCTiP) is scheduled for 04/20/2026-04/25/2026 in Oxford, UK 🇬🇧: qctipconf.github.io
Talk submission deadline is just round the corner: 01/11/2026. Looking forward to many exciting contributions and a great time in Hogwarts🪄, aehm Oxford🎓.
Personal highlight: after 3 knee surgeries over the past years and a lot of physiotherapy lessons, I am finally back on the skiing slopes. 🎿🏔️⛷️ And it feels amazing! Huge thanks to all the expert care and dedication that made this possible. Some wounds can heal after all!
Like so, @ninabake2.bsky.social?
happy, proud and excited to be part of this!
At our QUICK Quantum Computing Group, we’ve adopted the sloth as our group mascot, a QUICK reminder that good things take time! 🦥
To celebrate International Sloth Day last week, we raised funds and donated to the Sloth Conservation Foundation. Great initiative by Marwa Marso (last row center)!
(III/III) Our QUICK group commits itself to high equal opportunity, workplace safety and diversity standards. Currently, 60% of the department members come from abroad, and 60% are female. Consequently, we encourage people from all genders and ethnicities to apply.
(II/III) We're looking for young talent with a background in CS, math, EE or quantum physics and growth potential. Your future research focus should be in quantum CS, preferably with a connection to AI. More weight should be given to basic, rather than applied, research.
(I/III) We're excited to announce a new tenure track opening! The position is called 'quantum informatics' and is affiliated with our QUICK group within the CS+AI division at @jku.at 🇦🇹. Application deadline is November 30th, 2025: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...
Fruitful crossover between Berlin, Germany, and Linz, Austria. @faehrmion.bsky.social -- MVP of this project -- discovered most of the shadow of the Hadamard test while spending time with our QUICK sloth team in Linz, Austria 🇦🇹.
Huge thanks to Viet Tran, Mariami Gachechiladze and MVP Jan Noeller for a productive and fun collaboration!
Plus, a big shoutout to Sitan Chen, Weiyuan Gong and Qi Ye for developing elegant new frameworks for proving hardness of learning tasks which we managed to adapt to our needs.
In 2021, Robert Huang, myself & @preskill.bsky.social identified quantum state learning tasks that look hard, but become easy if you jointly process 2 copies. I have long wondered whether such challenges exist for c>2 copies. Turns out yes, there is an infinite hierarchy scirate.com/arxiv/2510.0...
The pioneering work of Clarke, Devoret, and Martinis showed that very cold electrical circuits behave in ways that exhibit fundamental principles of quantum physics.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
Something along the lines of a dual **q&q monarchy** perhaps? :-D (so many possibilities for puns)
🇦🇹🇭🇺 Austro-Hungarian reunion at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. András Gilyén is probably one of the best quantum algorithm designers out there. He co-developed quantum SDPs, QSVT & Gibbs Sampling. No wonder he won an ERC! Happy that he also decided to return to Europe, and proud to be his friend!
Just had the pleasure to see this in person. Very impressive stuff, @andreasateth.bsky.social and team!
Those are going to be some big shoes to fill. If we can fill them at all...
I for one am extremely grateful for the advice and support Peter showed me when I started at JKU as a young assistant professor almost 5 years ago. Thank you, Peter!
way to go, Mario!
happy to see the proud quantum legacy of my homecountry 'tunnel' into unexpected application regimes. Go team 🇦🇹! :-D
me perhaps. greetings from Austria!
💡 Mit einer großen Delegation ist Bundespräsident Alexander Van der Bellen im Mai nach Japan gereist. Mit dabei: die JKU Linz mit ihrem Quantenforscher Richard Küng. Österreich und auch die JKU wird sich auf der EXPO in Osaka präsentieren. 🎌 http://go.jku.at/n25m1
📸 privat
Um den Einsatz der JKU Forscher*innen im Bereich Wissenschaftkommunikation zu würdigen, wurden die Kepler Awards ins Leben gerufen. Das Interesse war enorm: Es gab mehr als 90 Einreichungen, die sich in vielfältigen Initiativen engagieren. Wir gratulieren alle Gewinner*innen!🏆 http://go.jku.at/n25l7
Huge thanks to the team at the 'Knieambulanz' of UKH Linz -- in particular Dr. Daniel Hoefler -- for acting on this MRI data and excellently perform, in total, three surgeries to make my knee (almost) whole again!