Viv Kendon

@quantumviv.bsky.social

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I design quantum computers @physicsstrath.bsky.social and @ccp-qc.bsky.social https://kendon.info/viv

Man on left of two screens showing title slide of talk on Quantum Heuristics, wood panelled wall behind
Slide explaining in diagrams what different types of alloy are. Soeaker standing on right
Jason left, Dominic right, large data projector screen with CIUK banner behind them
large projected slide showing the Jupiter HPC spec card with banners in the CIUK logo either side, man in glasses bottom right talking about it
3 men facing a poster with lots of text on it and some diagrams
Screen projected saying CoSeC with two people at a lectern preparing for a talk.
Woman on right at lectern with title slide on left saying UK Government's AI Research Resource & 10 year compute roadmap.
Man in front of a data screen pointing to diagrams of quantum circuits and qubits. The colours on the screen are phone generated resolving the projector alternating colours. It looks black on white to human eyes.
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woman on left speaking to a slide with four themes in blue green and grey squares
Woman in light green top holding coffee mug next to poster with diagrams of quantum circuits and graphs of simulations
Same text as post on left, plus "organised by Professor Vivien Kendon, Dr John Buckeridge, Dr Bruno Camino, Dr Alin Elena, and Sir Richard Catlow FRS"; graphic of qubit graph and section of graphene hexagonal lattice on right
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Row of poster boards stretching away in centre with two people in foreground discussing second poster in row. Portraits of academics hanging from wires above
6 people below a large screen saying Quantum Communications in Space Panel Discussion in white text on red background, and Integrated Quantum Networks Hub with logo in the top right corner
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Clydeport derry with the Ovo Hydro behind and morn*ng sun catching the edges
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drummer, 2 fiddle players (women) and guitarist on small stage with red and blue lighting in front of standing audience
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slide projected saying Thank you for attending QSQW 2025! next to a group photo.
Woman on left in front of a marble column talking about a slide projected centre right explaining how machine learning relates to quantum reservoir computing
tall woman on left talking about slide projected right saying II. Theoretical understanding Quantum vs Classical computation Simulating quantum circuits on a classical computer should be hard But some known classes of quanum circuits can be simulated easily -> Understand which classes of circuits are hard and why
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Woman on left presenting slide projected centre right with two blue wavy W graphs on summarising results of Bloch oscillations wiout and with losses
Woman at lectern in bottom left corner with slide projected centre right and marble and wood surrounding of the room. Slide has pictures of quantum walks.
Man in red top on left with slide projected in centre and rows of red chair backs and heads of audience in foreground.
Five women lined up with buildings on the left and a volcano in the background, blue sky above with a few small white clouds on the right
woman at lectern on far left, slide projected centre right with colourful graph and bar charts
nan at lectern on left with slide projected on right with graph of hubs and links. marble and wood room around with seatin_ for a panel
Banner on left for AQT cdt and people talking around poster boards in the centre and queuing for lunch on the right.
Screen shot of email text saying: Hi Viv, You're invited to submit to Academia Quantum, a new open access journal publishing original research and review articles covering all areas of biology. Papers are peer-reviewed in our fast and robust pipeline: the average processing time for accepted papers is 34 days. Accepted papers will be distributed widely across the biology field through Academia's 200M registered users and the phone navigation icons showing top and bottom
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BBC Scotland building with all glass windows reflecting orange and yellow sunset sky with pale pink and purple clouds above. Two satellite dishes on roof top.
man waving arms around by lectern with big screen behind showing RISV-V-SIG photos and info, CIUK branded bannets either side
man below large screen with details of DINE-2 Durham Integrated next-gen Environment. CIUK branded banner at the side
man on right of display screen listing D-Wave and Quera hardware details undet Quantum Computing heading
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Woman in front of slide projected between CIUK branded banners with diverse audience backs of heads in front.
man standing at lectern below large screen showing DRI 4 missions summarised: Panel discussion: Building FAIRer human-centric interoperable and sustainable DRI
woman standing below large screen with CATS software details on
man at lectern on right of large projected screen with CIUK banners on both sifes
Women describing information about drug molecular structures illustrated on a slide projected to her right
Title slide for talk saying Neurormorphic detection and control of levitated microparticles for microscale thermodynamics with man standing below right
man standing below a big display showing a workflow diagram
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Man on lower right of projected slide saying Open quantum systems with a diagram of system (red square) inside environment (blue circle)
Leaflet from: SP Energy Networks Important information Preparing for a power cut
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Chocolate cake decorated with Newton under an apple tree
Wide river with modern bridge open to allow several boats through, clear blue sky above.
man in Daddy shark t-shirt on left of large projection screen showing SWAP relation to singlet/triplet projectors
woman in green dress on left of large projection screen showing reaesrch areas
Man in red t-shirt below large screen showing workshop welcome
Large projector screen showing Rydberg atoms interactions through dipole moments. Presenter man on bottom right next to blackboards.
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