Physics and Astronomy

Physics, Particle Physics, High-Energy Physics, Materials Science, Condensed Matter Physics, Optics, Cosmology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Celestial Mechanics, Computational Physics, Fluid Dynamics, Plasma Physics, Stellar Science

A Quantum Summer

jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics and Astronomy
After spending a long time on my PhD projects during the past year, I wanted to break away from them and work on something new. That’s why I applied to the Los Alamos Quantum Computer Summer School (I’ll call it QCSS now). The summer school was in its fourth edition, and was virtual like the one last year. First, some preliminaries. Despite the name, QCSS is not really a summer school. It’s closer to a…

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Image Compression for CubeSats using Discrete Cosine and Discrete Wavelet Transformations @ University of Toronto Aerospace Team

Vikas Nath Communication, Education and Outreach, Physics and Astronomy
Artash Nath In September 2020,  I came across the University of Toronto Aerospace Team (UTAT) while searching for communities centered around rocketry and aerospace. UTAT is an award-winning interdisciplinary team based at the University of Toronto that designs and builds drones, rockets, and satellites. It does so by bringing together passionate students from across Canada who like solving engineering and science challenges. One of UTAT’s divisions, Space Systems was hosting several recruitment workshops that month…

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