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authorAnna Knoerr <an.kn@protonmail.ch>2022-12-20 22:49:25 +0100
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What makes a good day? A surprising conversation with a stranger, a smile from a person I care about, a round of yoga to feel my neurons tingle and a dose of 100% dark chocolate. I try to not take life too seriously, which seems to make me focus with intense amusement on the projects that fill my life. Oh, and it's likely you'll find me in a handstand!
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-So far, I've moved around a bit: born in Austria, toddler years on Huntington Beach in sunny California, junior school near Munich, middle school in the little German city with the longest castle in the world. Sixth Form wearing a tie near London, couple of months learning 中文 in Shanghai. Bachelor's degree in physics from ETH in Zurich, now finishing my Master's in Canada interspersed with an internship at QuEra Computing Inc. in Boston... It's been a journey and it's all but over. I am thankful for this privilege and try to put the things I've learned along the road to good use.
+So far, I've moved around a bit: born in Austria, toddler years on Huntington Beach in sunny California, junior school near Munich, middle school in the little German city with the longest castle in the world. Sixth Form wearing a tie near London, couple of months learning 中文 in Shanghai. Bachelor's degree in physics from ETH in Zurich, now finishing my Master's in Canada interspersed with an internship at QuEra Computing Inc. in Boston... It's been a journey and it's all but over. I am thankful for this priviledge and try to put the things I've learned along the road to good use.
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<p class=w3-center> <i> I've made this page to share those attempts with you. Hope you find something to your taste in the 3 dropdowns below!</i></p>
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<p class=w3-left-align> The best way to know whether you've understood something is when you can explain it.
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- I've much enjoyed gaining first experience in presenting my work as a physics student to technical audiences by...
+ I've much enjoyed gaining some first experience in presenting my work as a physics student to technical audiences by ...
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- ... representing the startup QuEra at the <em>New Frontiers in Quantum & ML</em> workshop at Perimeter (November 2022) --> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wMTeI0xwr8"> talk recording</a>
+ ... representing QuEra at the <em>New Frontiers in Quantum & ML</em> workshop at Perimeter (November 2022) --> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wMTeI0xwr8"> talk recording</a>
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... presenting two posters at the <em>Physics meets AI</em> summer school at LMU in Munich (September 2022) --> <a href="https://www.asc.physik.lmu.de/activities/schools/asc_school_2022/book_of_abstracts.pdf"> poster abstracts</a>
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... pitching the open-source platform <a href="https://queracomputing.github.io/Bloqade.jl/dev/">Bloqade</a> at the Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference (<a href="https://cgqc2023.wixsite.com/cgqc">CGQC</a>) in January next year!
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- I've also had a lot of fun explaining science, math and computing to broader audiences by...
+ I've also had a lot of fun explaining science, math and computing to broader audiences by ...
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- ... interviewing Prof. Lavinia Heisenberg on gravity and the astronaut-dream for the magazine <a href="./assets/Interview_Sterne&Weltraum.pdf">Sterne & Weltraum</a>,
+ ... interviewing Prof. Lavinia Heisenberg on her theoretical work on gravity, astronaut aspirations and support for women in science for the magazine <em>Sterne & Weltraum</em> (December 2021) --> <a href="./assets/Interview_Sterne&Weltraum.pdf">interview</a>
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- ... or writing goofy blog posts (<a href="https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/08/cospans_and_computation_part_1.html#more">Part 1</a>, <a href="https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/09/cospans_and_computation_-_part_3.html">Part 3</a>) on Category Theory as part of the ACT Adjoint School 2021.
+ ... or writing goofy blog posts on Category Theory as part of the ACT Adjoint School 2021 --> <a href="https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/08/cospans_and_computation_part_1.html#more">part 1</a>, <a href="https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/09/cospans_and_computation_-_part_3.html">part 3</a>.
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<div id="Tackling Climate Change" class="w3-container concept" style="display:none">
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- <p class=w3-left-align> I am a strong believer in achieving goals together. More broadly, I see life as a communal process of creating. That perspective makes me happy, at the very least. Hence, my main goal in life is to bring people together around shared values that emerge from and change through conversation.
+ <p class=w3-left-align> I am a strong believer in achieving goals together. More broadly, I see life as a communal process of creating. Hence, my main goal in life is to bring people together around shared values that emerge from and change through conversation.
So far, my efforts in this respect have been centered mostly around the theme of climate change.
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<p class=w3-left-align> Now, I am building on these experiences at my current home at Perimeter Institute, Canada. Together with researchers and admin, I formed a climate action working group last year. Our aim was and is to generate an internal culture of "every job is a climate job", even when you´re working at a theoretical physics institute.
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- In the new year, I'm excited to organize events together with PI's anti-racism group exploring how to balance two themes: On the one hand, solving climate change through technological innovation such as new energy sources. On the other hand, integrating indigenous knowledge and rewilding the world, thus making the connection between climate change and biodiversity. I much enjoyed and can highly recommend the following books in this regard:
+ In the new year of 2023, I'm excited to organize events together with PI's anti-racism group exploring how to balance two themes: On the one hand, solving climate change through technological innovation such as new energy sources. On the other hand, integrating indigenous knowledge and rewilding the world, thus making the connection between climate change and biodiversity. In this regard, I much enjoyed and can highly recommend the following books:
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<li>All We Can Save (Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katherine K. Wilkinson, 2021)</li>
<li>A Life on Our Planet (David Attenborough, 2020)</li>
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- Feel free to also take a read of the <em>Open Climate Edition</em> of the Branch magazine - a colorful collection of pieces to which I contributed a physics' student perspective in the article <a href="https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-4/the-fermi-problem-of-climate-change/"><em>The Fermi Problem of Climate Change</em></a> (August 2022). It's a personal attempt to get to grips with the orders of magnitude of carbon emissions by putting the typical footprint of a physicist in perspective of the global problem.
+ Feel free to also peek into the <em>Open Climate Edition</em> of the Branch magazine - a colorful collection of pieces to which I contributed a physics' student perspective in the article <a href="https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-4/the-fermi-problem-of-climate-change/"><em>The Fermi Problem of Climate Change</em></a> (August 2022). It's a personal attempt to get to grips with the orders of magnitude of carbon emissions by putting the typical footprint of a physicist in perspective of the global problem.
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<div id="Having Miscellaneous Fun" class="w3-container concept" style="display:none">