Aedan Gardill, Ph.D.

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I am a physicist who works with quantum sensing ⚛️ I also do art in my spare time 🎨 I also like books, gardening, and buying supplies for new crafts https://wonders.physics.wisc.edu/quantum/quantum-computing-coloring-book/ He/him

The front cover of the Quantum Computing Coloring Book on a metal optical table and optical tools surrounding it
A black and white drawing of my spouse, questioning how we ordered all this food, saying "I kind of give-a-mouse-a-cookie'd my lunch"
A black and white drawing of my spouse, celebrating our huge garden, saying "I'm a f*cking farmers market!"
A black and white drawing of my spouse, carrying a duck in a canvas bag, saying "one second you're young and carefree... And then next you're taking your pet duck to the emergency vet because she's family"
A black and white drawing of my spouse, holding an SPF sun shirt from a store rack, saying "it makes getting a sunburn illegal -- I can literally sue the sun!"
A black and white drawing of my spouse cleaning their ears after a shower, saying "ear swabs are the reward to showering"
A black and white drawing of my spouse holding a floral button up shirt intended for pets, asking the question "but should I spend money on clothes for my cat?"
The "Anitta-Kin" city park sign, surrounded by grass and trees and light shining down. Text: names are so amazing because everyone's name is *theirs*
A scene of multiple colosseums and ancient Greece-like landscape, with a mother calling out to her son in the distance Text: like, how many times has the earth heard a mother calling...
Drawing of dapled light on grass, and who white butterflies. Text: Nameling (noun) (rare, archaic) Any group of people sharing the same name. A comic. Illustrated by Aedan Gardill. Text by @h-isforhome (tumblr)
The cover for The Quantum Computing Coloring Book, featuring the title and authors, Aedan Gardill and Sarah Parker, in the center. Surrounding the title are colorful designs of a circuit board and atoms.
Small watercolor paintings of ducks, with the paint and paintbrush off to the right, with sun shining on the table.
A posterized-style painting of the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani. Her name is written at the top of the painting, along with her title and her accomplishment of being the "first woman to win the fields medal".
An illustration of an atom, where the orbiting electron is made of a gradient between yellow and purple. The words qubits are non-binary wraps around the atom in the same yellow and purple colors
An illustration of Dr. Michelle Simmons, who builds quantum devices atom by atom to achieve precise control of single electrons to perform quantum computing. The illustration shows Dr. Simmons placing an atom, by hand, into a vacuum chamber, and shows two electrons contained in one of these traps.
A black and white digital drawing of two atoms in a vacuum chamber
A family of pieces of coal, however the father is now a diamond. The mother claims "your dad's been under a lot of pressure lately*
A tree winning a race, breaking through the finish line with a shocked person running in second place
A slide from a presentation about the women in the history of quantum physics, showing a picture of the upcoming self-titled book
An illustration of a Jenin resistance fighter, who was asked in an interview what he would be doing if he wasn't fighting in the resistance group, saying: "I would live my normal life and go out to enjoy myself. Palestine's nature is stunning and I'm someone that loves to go out to see nature. So I'd climb mountains and go to the beach."
A holographic sticker with a dilution refrigerator and the text "The Quantum Computing Coloring Book" with a QR code. The sticker is held in front of the APS Global Summit Meeting banner
A holographic sticker for The Quantum Computing Coloring Book, which features a dilution refrigerator and atoms. A QR code to the website for free download of the illustrations is in the bottom left.
A drawing of a dilution refrigerator, with atoms and sine wave designs along the right and left side.
A low angle photo of a lake at sunrise misting from early morning temperature, with trees in the middle ground, and mountains in the background.
A digital illustration of Dr. Ali Nayfeh, one of the most prominent mechanical engineers studying non-linear dynamics. The color pallet uses red, green, black, and white. In the background, a non-linear graph is shown, as well as a depiction of two people in a boat with scientific notations drawn over the boat. Also in the background is an abstraction of the Kuffiyeh pattern, where waves and perturbations are drawn. In the upper right, Dr. Ali Nayfeh’s name is written with the subtitle “mechanical engineer”.
A Nike ad mural, that originally said "You Can't Win. So Win" with a Black female athlete featured. The mural is being painted over in white. With the current progression of the paint over, only the words "You Can't Win" are present
A black and white digital illustration of Dr. Jessie Price, where she is holding a pipette and illustrations of feathers and bacteria are flowing across the page from the pipette. Behind Dr. price, a bacteria culture is drawn in white on a black background
A digital illustration of Dr. Elham Kateeb, a dental public health specialist, holding a large mouth model and oversized toothbrush, demonstrating good dental hygiene to a child, whose back is facing the viewer. The color scheme of the illustration is a mix of blues and purples, with hints of the Palestinian flag’s colors. In the background, there are plots and a tooth model representing the type of research Dr. Kateeb does. Also in the background is the classic Keffiyeh pattern, with teeth drawn in the grid of the pattern. The text “Dr. Elham Kateeb” with the subtext “dental health specialist” is displayed in the upper right.
A video that pans across four oil paintings depicting four Black women inventors from the turn of the 20th century. These women are (from left to right) Sarah E. Goode, Marjorie S. Joyner, Alice H. Parker, and Mme. C. J. Walker. The paintings are designed in an Art Nouveau style, with embellishments relating to the inventions of each respective woman, and each woman is posed in the act of invention, again relating to their invention.
A digital illustration of statistical epidemiologist Dr. Niveen Abu-Rmeileh with a color scheme of green, red, white, and black. In the background scientific plots from her research are drawn, as well as a view of the Earth, centered on Palestine, with green, yellow, and red dots representing “statistical data points.” In the background on the left is a design of the keffiyeh pattern
Watercolor painting of a Viking (?) style swordsman. For the purposes of this reply meme, he is a knight 🗡️
A digital illustration of Dr. Sofyan Taya, using a color palette of red, green, white, and black. In the background, images of different physics equations and a graph related to his work on optoelectronics are shown. An energy level diagram is depicted with the wave pattern used in keffiyehs. In the background, another keffiyeh pattern is drawn, with a plot of light emissions traversing through the grid of the pattern. Dr. Sofyan Taya was killed on Dec 2, 2023 in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
A digital drawing of Dr Munir Nayfeh, with a color palette of red, green, black, and white. He is holding a solar panel and depictions of atoms and scanning probe microscopy are behind him. A rendition of the keffiyeh pattern is depicted in the background with a light spectrum along a vertical line
A black and white ink drawing of George Washington Carver writing notes into a book with botanical samples in the background
A mural depicting hands holding a red poppy, symbolizing Palestine, with sketch-like drawings of people protesting for Free Palestine, Free Congo, Free Sudan. Lines come from the flower, with the statement "Long Live International Solidarity"
A line drawing of a person in jeans and a graphic T-shirt with a graph on it. A large circular halo is centered on their head, but their head is intentionally not drawn and replaced with a swirl of atoms and subatomic particles.
Two cats that are half skeleton curled around the Schrodinger equation