Among the winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers this year I find a few familiar quantum names: Sean Hallgren (poor Sean was forced to share an office me at Caltech), Adam Smith, and Jason Petta. +10 tenure points awarded. Via @fortnow.
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Sloan awards have been announced for this year. On the list I noticed at least two three quantum computing/information related names: Alexandre Blais (University of Sherbrooke), Andris Ambainis (University of Waterloo), and Jason Petta (Princeton.) Congrats!
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