LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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What does this to have to with LLNL and LANL? Why post this?
Several of these centers where just announced, today LANL is one of the core groups with Microsoft and Oak Ridge.
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2020/08/26/new-research-collaboration-u-s-national-laboratories-microsoft-universities-national-quantum-initiative/
Microsoft is one of the five core founding members of one of the newly-formed centers, the Quantum Science Center (QSC), along with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and Purdue University. In addition to the Quantum Science Center, Microsoft is also a partner in the Q-NEXT center, led by Argonne National Laboratory and joined by Stanford Linear Accelerator Cente
8/27/2020 2:04 PM
One could try quantum computing with NIF. The decoherence time might a tad short but hey NIF can do anything.
8/29/2020 5:08 PM
Not my field but I was wondering if things like gravity waves would also induce decoherence? I would guess that there must be some kind of "sea" of residual gravity waves from the big bang that give some average level background of "gravitational noise". Sure it would be very small but could still couple to quantum system and induce some decoherence. I am sure someone has thought about this so maybe the effect is so small you could never hope to see in any realistic time frame.
8/30/2020 12:14 PM
Quantum gravity is the next hot thing in experimental science. Watch the labs belly up to this new trough.