In a new podcast episode of ML4Q&A, Kathrin Dorn (PhD student, Egger group) speaks to Dagmar Bruss, professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physcs III in Düsseldorf. They talk about Dagmar's passion about quantum information theory, how a coffee break in Oxford changed her research focus to quantum key distribution, her experience with the impostor phenomenon and how she got involved in a supercosmos project in astronomical technology.

00:00 intro
01:35 from astronomical technology to quantum information
06:23 working at ISI in Turin and joining talks by Grover and Shor
08:10 from experiment to theory
10:38 how is your working day?
14:43 struggles and experiencing the impostor phenomenon
19:24 work on quantum key distribution
25:27 ongoing work in ML4Q
32:28 1 or 2?

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Host: Kathrin Dorn

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Title: Lunar Levitation
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