Updates

My posting has been slower than usual due to taking a holiday and then being busy catching up with work and finishing a grant application. A few things that I have been involved in over the past few weeks:

• On Monday I gave a (virtual) talk on applications of topological data analysis to photonics at the Photonica conference. Here are the slides. The introduction to machine learning is based heavily on lectures given by David Saad last year at IBS PCS (Lecture 1 and Lecture 2) which I found an excellent introduction to the topic. Nice to see that in-person conferences are finally starting to resume in Europe!
• We received the referee reports for our manuscript on dark soliton detection using persistent homology (discussed in an earlier post). We are fortunate that both referees took the time to carefully read our manuscript and offer detailed suggestions on how to improve the work. The revised manuscript should be significantly clearer and more accessible to non-specialists.
• I wrote a Perspective on an article on optimised quantum algorithms for quantum simulation of fermionic systems recently published in Quantum. While I haven't published any research on this topic (yet), it's an area we are currently working on, and this summary served as good motivation for me to become more familiar with the recent literature.