Zoë Holmes | Between Two Kets

Zoë Holmes is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Physics at EPFL. In 2015-2016, she received her MPhil degree in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford and her Master of Research from the Imperial College London. Her PhD, also at the Imperial College London, was awarded to her in 2019 for work in quantum thermodynamics. Go follow Zoë on twitter (https://twitter.com/qzoeholmes?lang=en) and check out her Google scholar page (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=UFRCxUwAAAAJ&hl=en). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 0:40 Welcome Zoë! ... and (more) hockey 5:12 Prof life 8:10 Getting into physics 11:00 Life lessons in university 17:02 Adapting to ML and quantum computing 19:58 Random Sampling! 29:45 Thoughts on teaching 32:50 Advice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PennyLane is an open-source software framework for quantum machine learning, quantum chemistry, and quantum computing, with the ability to run on all hardware. We're focused on creating engaging quantum computing, quantum machine learning and quantum chemistry content. Install PennyLane: https://pennylane.ai/install/ Check out our amazing demos: https://pennylane.ai/qml/demonstrations Follow us on: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/PennyLaneAI - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pennylaneai/ - GitHub: https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane Discussion forum: https://discuss.pennylane.ai Slack channel: https://xanadu-quantum.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-nkwn25v9-H4hituCb_PUj4idG0MhSug#/shared-invite/email ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Built with ❤️ by Xanadu (https://xanadu.ai)