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Professor Michael Biercuk
Director, Quantum Control Laboratory
Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems
Website The Quantum Control Laboratory
ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems
Prof. Michael J. Biercuk is a quantum physicist, innovator, and Director of the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney. His group is working to develop a new generation of advanced technologies powered by the strangest phenomena in quantum physics – Quantum Tech.
As an expert in quantum physics and quantum technology Michael is also the founder and CEO of Q-CTRL, a quantum technology company. Q-CTRL is supported entirely by venture capital and operates from the campus of the University of Sydney.
Michael was educated in the United States, earning his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Master's and Doctorate degrees from Harvard University.He held a research fellowship in the Ion Storage Group at NIST Boulder under the supervision of 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics Dr. David Wineland, and has served as a consultant to US Defence Agency DARPA, helping to steer government venture investments in advanced technology.
As an academic Michael is a regular contributor to both the technical literature and the popular press, driving public debate on issues pertaining to innovation, technology policy, and the role of science in society. He has spoken at TEDxSydney and appeared on ABC's Q&A, along with presenting numerous keynote addresses to major business and public sector audiences.
The world on the atomic scale is very different from the world around us. The simple principles that govern the behaviour of our classical world – principles elucidated by the likes of Newton and Maxwell – break down and give way to a new set of rules provided by quantum mechanics. To date, quantum mechanics represents our most accurate and widely applicable scientific theory, providing deep insight into the fundamental nature of light and matter.
Quantum mechanics has captured our imagination more than any other physical theory because of the intrinsic strangeness of many of its principles – particles as waves, light as particles, hidden correlations between systems separated by huge distances. These phenomena, however, are not manifested in our daily existence and have largely been inaccessible due to the barrier between the classical and quantum worlds.
A new discipline – Quantum Science – is opening a door between our world and that of the quantum, allowing classical systems access to the most exotic quantum mechanical phenomena. The past two decades have seen an explosion in the number of systems that have been able to provide access to the quantum realm: from superconducting circuits and semiconductor nanostructures, to trapped atoms and single-photon optics.
Quantum coherent devices are real and accessible to scientists today. But building quantum technologies – exploiting the strangest quantum effects – will take a new kind of effort. It will require systems engineering in the quantum regime.
The Quantum Control Laboratory combines theory and experiment to tackle the most challenging problems in the field of quantum physics, and to usher in a new revolution in quantum-enabled technology. The lab provides access to one of he leading quantum technologies worldwide – trapped atomic ions. Using a combination of custom ultra-high-vacuum systems, precision stabilized lasers, high-stability radiofrequency oscillators, and flexible microwave control systems, this laboratory allows detailed measurements of the control, evolution, and interactions of quantum systems.
QUANTUM CONTROL AND QUANTUM FIRMWARE: Control theory is a universal enabling discipline within the engineering community. We are seeking to bring insights from control theory to the quantum domain, allowing us to efficiently exploit quantum coherent systems. Our aim is to produce a flexible quantum control toolkit that is adaptable to any future quantum technology, but with specific emphasis on quantum computing. Specific projects relate to dynamical error suppression and the development of filter transfer functions for arbitrary quantum control.
QUANTUM SIMULATION:The simulation of interacting many-body systems is a promising near-term application of quantum information systems. Through experiments using linear Paul traps and ion arrays in Penning traps we are seeking to engineer designer Hamiltonians for studies of problems including quantum magnetism. Our research marries with questions of quantum control theory quantum information theory, as we seek to develop techniques allowing a user to execute a "program" on constrained simulator hardware.
QUANTUM METROLOGY: We are seeking to develop new sensing and metrology techniques leveraging trapped atomic ions as model quantum coherent systems. Our owrk includes the development of ion-based force and field detectors as well as applications of quantum control techniques to the development of precision frequency standards.
Selected Honours
TEDxSydney Speaker (2016)
Australian Museum Eureka Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher (Winner, 2015)
Prime Minister's Malcolm McIntosh Prize (Shortlist, 2015)
Australian Innovation Challenge (Finalist, 2014)
Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney's 100 Most Influential People (2012)
Research selected #8 "World-changing" experiment by BBC Focus (2012)
Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science (Finalist, 2012)
NMI Prize for Excellence in Measurement Science (Winner, 2011)
Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key Honour Societies
Smart Company
"A century-defining technology: What is quantum computing..."
Quantum start-up Q-Ctrl "unmixing the soup" of qubit decoherence
CSIRO's Main Sequence Ventures backs Q-Ctrl, a quantum computing firmware start-up
Peter Dutton signals room to move on work visas for universities
Malcolm Turnbull's 457 visa crackdown a disaster for universities
Technology Quarterly: Here, There and Everywhere
The Christian Science Monitor
"Machines learn to find patterns in quantum chaos"
"Researchers accurately predicted the future of a quantum system"
"Quantum oracle: AI predicts and fixes qubit failure"
"Sydney University's Quantum Leap into the Supercomputing's Future"
"How Quantum Physics Research can help us see the future"
"Has innovation hit peak hype?"
"US intelligence awards multimillion dollar grant to Sydney University quantum science lab"
"Quantum computing leaps: Sydney University and UNSW as the best of frenemies"
The Daily Telegraph
World Leading Institute for Nanoscience
"Scientists will now be able to work in the most advanced nanoscience facility in the southern hemisphere"
"Sydney's nanoscience lab has floating floors and Faraday cages"
"Federal budget: Scientists push for more research funding."
The Mark Bouris Show
Podcast Ep. 44
"Politicisation of NBN a tragedy that has held back innovation, ABC's Q&A told."
Innovation (Download)
"Big plans loom for uni's nano hub"
"On the cusp of the nano revolution"
Seven News
"Science fiction comes true in Sydney"
"Sydney University to Open Nanoscience Hub for the Quantum Technologies of the Future"
9 March 2016 (Front cover, print edition)
"Tech Talk in The Sky Takes Off"
"The first TEDx talk was held on a plane, but you weren't invited"
"Qantas flies our top thinkers on tech route"
"Qantas hosts world's first tech talk in the sky on its direct Sydney to San Francisco route."
"Eureka prize honours quantum computing pioneers in their quest for "super computers""
"Eureka moment for quantum computing"
"Pioneers of quantum computing are among the 2015 Eureka Prize Winners"
"University of Sydney Launch STRIVE program to help returned soldiers find work, transition into civilian life"
"Quantum physicist Michael Biercuk and Sydney University set up free course for ex-servicemen and women"
"Quantum leap to help build safer and brighter lifestyles"
ABC Science [commentary]
"New accuracy record set for quantum computing"
Sydney Alumni Magazine
"Donors fast track quantum leaps"
The University of Sydney, Inspired Campaign
"Generous gift supports the promise of quantum computing"
The New York Times, Bits Blog
"A quantum computing problem solved"
"Quantum data storage breakthrough brings quantum computing one step closer"
"Research gives new permanence to quantum memory"
"Quantum memory gets a reality check"
Sydney Morning Herald, the(sydney)magazine
"Sydney's Top 100"
Lateline, ABC Television (Commentary)
"Laws will stifle research claim scientists"
The Australian (Commentary)
"Defence Bill a research risk: academics."
"Tiny particles: quantum leaps"
"Quantum Evolution"
20 Sept, 2012
BBC FOCUS
"The 10 world-changing experiments that will shape the future"
New Scientist (Commentary)
"Teleportation record heralds global quantum network"
The Guardian, UK
"Quantum computers are leaping ahead."
"Link to 'world's most advanced computer'."
"Sydney Scientist helps design tiny supercomputer."
"Device just one atom thick a quantum leap for technology."
"Tiny crystal 'revolutionises' computing"
"Scientists develop 'most powerful' quantum simulator"
"Tiny crystal may hold key to future of computers"
"NIST's quantum simulator mimics hundreds of qubits interacting"
"Quantum Computer Breakthrough?"
ABC News Breakfast
SBS World News
Lateline, ABC
ABC Radio,
SBS Radio,
6PR, 4BC...
Australian Parliament
Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade
Testimony on behalf of Universities Australia and the University of Sydney
Defence Trade Controls Bill, 2011
"Defence red tape to hit research, uni heads say"
"Bill to stop misuse of dangerous technology could hit uni researchers"
"Sweating the (very) small stuff."
"Tuning into the secret of mining's holy grail."
"Science gets the measure of all that's tiny."
"Getting the measure of awards."
M.J. Biercuk, Recipient of the 2011 NMI Prize.
Minister Carr's media release,Times Higher Educationwriteup
Physics,"Unexpected Error."
The Economist, "The force is weak with this one."
Physics Today,News Pick, "Scientists measure atomic nudge"
Nature News (&Scientific American), "Scientists measure atomic nudge"
ABC Science News(Australia), "Scientists record world's tiniest nudge."
Slashdot, "YoctoNewton detector smashes force sensing record."
MIT Technology Review, arXiv blog, "YoctoNewton detector smashes force measurement record"
MIT Technology Review, "Extending the life of quantum bits."
Syndicated,New York TimesNews Feed
Physics Today,Search & Discovery, "Carefully timed radio pulses sustain quantum phase."
EE Times, "NIST nudges quantum computers toward commercial viability"
The New York Times, "Replacing wire with laser, Sun tries to speed up data."
Science,Science's Compass, "Carbon nanotubes - the route toward applications."
Physics Today,Physics Update, "Nanotubes boost epoxy properties."
(Tsinghua University) Experimental Ion Trapping
(CSIR) Quantum Control Theory and Ion Trapping
(Dartmouth College) Quantum Control and Quantum Firmware
(Duke University) Experimental Ion Trapping
(Harvard University) Quantum Control
(MIT) William D. Oliver
(NIST Boulder) Experimental Quantum Simulation in Penning Ion Traps
(Univ. of Maryland, JQI) Experimental Yb+ Ion Trapping
ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems - EQUS; White A, Bartlett S, Doherty A, Biercuk M, Bowen W, Brennen G, Davis M, Fedorov A, Flammia S, McFerran J, Milburn G, Reilly D, Rubinsztein-Dunlop H, Stace T, Shaddock D, Tobar M, Twamley J, Volz T, Starr R, Viola L, Aspelmeyer M, Zoller P, Auffeves A, Fedrizzi A, Jelezko F, Mueller H, Pernice W, Romero-Isart O, Schmiedmayer J, Senellart P, Wallraff A, Wolf P, Wouters M, Walmsley I; Australian Research Council (ARC)/ARC Centres of Excellence.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems; Biercuk M, Doherty A, Bartlett S, Flammia S, Reilly D; NSW Department of Industry/Research Attraction and Acceleration Program.
Establishing a world-class timebase for nanoscience; Biercuk M, Reilly D, Doherty A; DVC Research/Equipment Grant.
Encoded Qubit Alive (eQual); Monz T, Biercuk M; Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)/Research Support.
Optical technology for quantum science; Scholten R, Starr R, Robins N, Biercuk M, Huntington E, Sparkes B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
Materials at the nanoscale for optics and quantum science; Kuncic Z, Soon A, Eggleton B, Biercuk M, Reilly D, Stampfl C, Choi H, Lee G, Dohun K, Shim W; Office of Global Engagement/Joint IPDF with Yonsei University (South Korea).
Encoded Qubit Alive (eQual) with Trapped Ions; Biercuk M; Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)/Research Grant.
Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems (PRACQSYS 2015) - Conference; Biercuk M; NSW Trade and Investment/NSW Research Attraction and Acceleration Program Conference Sponsorship Program.
New techniques in quantum simulation; Sewell R, Biercuk M; DVC Research/International Research Collaboration Award (IRCA).
International Collaboration in Quantum Control; Biercuk M, Viola L, Gustavsson S, Oliver W, Orlando T; Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant.
DVCR Research Support; Biercuk M; University of Sydney/DVCR Funding.
Hugh Harley QuantSimulDonation; Biercuk M; Hugh Harley/Hugh Harley QuantSimulDonation.
Foundation technology for quantum measurement, sensing and computing; Scholten R, Biercuk M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
Frequency standards with breakthrough performance: Engineering immunity to LO instabilities using dynamical error suppression; Biercuk M, Ivanov E; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Australia-China Group Mission in the Control of Quantum Systems; Biercuk M, McCamey D, Bartlett S, Reilly D, Doherty A; Department of Industry, Innovation and Science/Australia China Science and Research Fund - Group Missions.
Modular Universal Scalable Ion-trap Quantum Computer (MUSIQC); Kim J, Biercuk M, Flammia S; Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)/Research Support.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS); Milburn G, White A, Doherty A, Tobar M, Twamley J, Bartlett S, Biercuk M, Bowen W, Brennen G, Duty T, Gilchrist A, Molina-Terriza G, Rabeau J, Reilly D, Rubinsztein-Dunlop H, Stace T, Vidal G, Flammia S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/ARC Centres of Excellence.
Precision Quantum Control and Error-Suppressing Quantum Firmware for Robust Quantum Computing; Biercuk M, Viola L, Yacoby A; US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command/Research Support.
Selected publications & creative works
Biercuk, M. (2013). Nanotechnology and You. In Andrew Jaspan (Eds.), The Explainer: From Deja Vu to Why the Sky is Blue, and Other Conundrums, (pp. 255-258). Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing.
Biercuk, M., Ilani, S., Marcus, C., McEuen, P. (2008). Electrical Transport in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. In Ado Jorio, Gene Dresselhaus, Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Eds.), Carbon Nanotubes: Advanced Topics in the Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Applications - Topics in Applied Physics Volume 111, (pp. 455-493). Germany: Springer. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Zolper, J. (2008). Electronics for Defense Applications. In Mike Golio, Janet Golio (Eds.), RF and Microwave Applications and Systems: RF and Microwave Handbook, Second Edition, Volume 1, (pp. 1-18). United States: CRC Press. [More Information]
Mavadia, S., Edmunds, C., Hempel, C., Ball, H., Roy, F., Stace, T., Biercuk, M. (2018). Experimental quantum verification in the presence of temporally correlated noise. npj Quantum Information, 4(7), 1-8. [More Information]
Gupta, R., Biercuk, M. (2018). Machine Learning for Predictive Estimation of Qubit Dynamics Subject to Dephasing. Physical Review Applied, 9(6). [More Information]
Norris, L., Lucarelli, D., Frey, V., Mavadia, S., Biercuk, M., Viola, L. (2018). Optimally band-limited spectroscopy of control noise using a qubit sensor. Physical Review A, 98(3), 1-23. [More Information]
Frey, V., Mavadia, S., Norris, L., de Ferranti, W., Lucarelli, D., Viola, L., Biercuk, M. (2017). Application of optimal band-limited control protocols to quantum noise sensing. Nature Communications, 8(1), 1-8. [More Information]
Bermudez, A., Xu, X., Nigmatullin, R., O'Gorman, J., Negnevitsky, V., Schindler, P., Monz, T., Poschinger, U., Hempel, C., Home, J., Biercuk, M., et al (2017). Assessing the progress of trapped-ion processors towards fault-tolerant quantum computation. Physical Review X, 7(4), 041061-1-041061-41. [More Information]
Mavadia, S., Frey, V., Sastrawan, J., Dona, S., Biercuk, M. (2017). Prediction and real-time compensation of qubit decoherence via machine learning. Nature Communications, 8, 1-6. [More Information]
Marciniak, C., Ball, H., Hung, A., Biercuk, M. (2017). Towards fully commercial, UV-compatible fiber patch cords. Optics Express, 25(14), 15643-15661. [More Information]
Ball, H., Nguyen, T., Leong, P., Biercuk, M. (2016). A functional basis for efficient physical-layer classical control in quantum processors. Physical Review Applied, 6(6), 1-15. [More Information]
Sastrawan, J., Jones, C., Akhalwaya, I., Uys, H., Biercuk, M. (2016). Analytically exploiting noise correlations inside the feedback loop to improve locked-oscillator performance. Physical Review E, 94(2), 1-10. [More Information]
Ball, H., Stace, T., Flammia, S., Biercuk, M. (2016). Effect of noise correlations on randomized benchmarking. Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), 93(2), 1-23. [More Information]
Ball, H., Oliver, W., Biercuk, M. (2016). The role of master clock stability in quantum information processing. npj Quantum Information, 2, 1-8. [More Information]
Britton, J., Bohnet, J., Sawyer, B., Uys, H., Biercuk, M., Bollinger, J. (2016). Vibration-induced field fluctuations in a superconducting magnet. Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), 93(6), 062511-1-062511-7. [More Information]
Green, T., Biercuk, M. (2015). Phase-Modulated Decoupling and Error Suppression in Qubit-Oscillator Systems. Physical Review Letters, 114(12), 1-5. [More Information]
Ball, H., Biercuk, M. (2015). Walsh-synthesized noise-filtering quantum logic. EPJ Quantum Technology, 2(11), 1-45. [More Information]
Soare, A., Ball, H., Hayes, D., Zhen, X., Jarratt, M., Sastrawan, J., Uys, H., Biercuk, M. (2014). Experimental bath engineering for quantitative studies of quantum control. Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), 89(4), 1-12. [More Information]
Soare, A., Ball, H., Hayes, D., Sastrawan, J., Jarratt, M., McLoughlin, J., Zhen, X., Green, T., Biercuk, M. (2014). Experimental noise filtering by quantum control. Nature Physics, 10(11), 825-829. [More Information]
Lee, M., Jarratt, M., Marciniak, C., Biercuk, M. (2014). Frequency stabilization of a 369 nm diode laser by nonlinear spectroscopy of Ytterbium ions in a discharge. Optics Express, 22(6), 7210-7221. [More Information]
Hayes, D., Flammia, S., Biercuk, M. (2014). Programmable quantum simulation by dynamic Hamiltonian engineering. New Journal of Physics, 16, 1-22. [More Information]
Kabytayev, C., Green, T., Khodjasteh, K., Biercuk, M., Viola, L., Brown, K. (2014). Robustness of composite pulses to time-dependent control noise. Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), 90(1), 1-9. [More Information]
Ball, H., Lee, M., Gensemer, S., Biercuk, M. (2013). A high-power 626 nm diode laser system for Beryllium ion trapping. Review of Scientific Instruments, 84(6), 1-6. [More Information]
Green, T., Sastrawan, J., Uys, H., Biercuk, M. (2013). Arbitrary quantum control of qubits in the presence of universal noise. New Journal of Physics, 15, 1-29. [More Information]
Khodjasteh, K., Sastrawan, J., Hayes, D., Green, T., Biercuk, M., Viola, L. (2013). Designing a practical high-fidelity long-time quantum memory. Nature Communications, 4, 1-8. [More Information]
Britton, J., Sawyer, B., Keith, A., Wang, J., Freericks, J., Uys, H., Biercuk, M., Bollinger, J. (2012). Engineered two-dimensional Ising interactions in a trapped-ion quantum simulator with hundreds of spins. Nature, 484(7395), 489-492. [More Information]
Green, T., Uys, H., Biercuk, M. (2012). High-Order Noise Filtering in Nontrivial Quantum Logic Gates. Physical Review Letters, 109(2), 1-5. [More Information]
Biercuk, M. (2012). Precision sensing: A new role for trapped ions. Australian Physics, 49(2), 53-58.
Sawyer, B., Britton, J., Keith, A., Wang, J., Freericks, J., Uys, H., Biercuk, M., Bollinger, J. (2012). Spectroscopy and Thermometry of Drumhead Modes in a Mesoscopic Trapped-Ion Crystal Using Entanglement. Physical Review Letters, 108(21), 1-5. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Doherty, A., Uys, H. (2011). Dynamical decoupling sequence construction as a filter-design problem. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 44(15), 1-15. [More Information]
Blakestad, R., Ospelkaus, C., VanDevender, A., Wesenberg, J., Biercuk, M., Leibfried, D., Wineland, D. (2011). Near-ground-state transport of trapped-ion qubits through a multidimensional array. Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), 84(3), 032314-1-032314-14. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Uys, H., Britton, J., VanDevender, A., Bollinger, J. (2011). Phase-coherent detection of an optical dipole force by Doppler velocimetry. Optics Express, 19(11), 10304-10316. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Bluhm, H. (2011). Phenomenological study of decoherence in solid-state spin qubits due to nuclear spin diffusion. Physical Review B, 83(23), 235316-1-235316-10. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Reilly, D. (2011). Quantum computing: Solid-state spins survive. Nature Nanotechnology, 6(1), 9-11. [More Information]
Biercuk, M. (2011). Quantum measurement: A quantum spectrum analyser. Nature Physics, 7(7), 525-526. [More Information]
Hayes, D., Khodjasteh, K., Viola, L., Biercuk, M. (2011). Reducing sequencing complexity in dynamical quantum error suppression by Walsh modulation. Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), 84(6), 1-13. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Reilly, D. (2011). Solid-state spins survive: Quantum-control pulse sequences can suppress errors and significantly extend the lifetimes of spin-based quantum bits in solid-state devices. Nature Nanotechnology, 6(1), 9-11. [More Information]
Uys, H., Biercuk, M., VanDevender, A., Ospelkaus, C., Meiser, D., Ozeri, R., Bollinger, J. (2010). Decoherence due to Elastic Rayleigh Scattering. Physical Review Letters, 105(20), 200401-1-200401-4. [More Information]
Bartlett, S., Biercuk, M., Doherty, A., Reilly, D. (2010). The Revolution is coming. Australian Physics, 47(3), 86-88.
Biercuk, M., Uys, H., Britton, J., VanDevender, A., Bollinger, J. (2010). Ultrasensitive detection of force and displacement using trapped ions. Nature Nanotechnology, 5(9), 646-650. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Uys, H., VanDevender, A., Shiga, N., Itano, W., Bollinger, J. (2009). Experimental Uhrig dynamical decoupling using trapped ions. Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), 79(6), 062324-1-062324-12. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Uys, H., VanDevender, A., Shiga, N., Itano, W., Bollinger, J. (2009). High-fidelity quantum control using ion crystals in a Penning trap. Quantum Information and Computation, 9(11-12), 920-949.
Biercuk, M., Uys, H., VanDevender, A., Shiga, N., Itano, W., Bollinger, J. (2009). Optimized dynamical decoupling in a model quantum memory. Nature, 458(7241), 996-1000. [More Information]
Uys, H., Biercuk, M., Bollinger, J. (2009). Optimized Noise Filtration through Dynamical Decoupling. Physical Review Letters, 103(4), 040501-1-040501-4. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Reilly, D., Buehler, T., Chan, V., Chow, J., Clark, R., Marcus, C. (2006). Charge sensing in carbon-nanotube quantum dots on microsecond timescales. Physical Review B, 73(20), 201402-1-201402-4. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Mason, N., Martin, J., Yacoby, A., Marcus, C. (2005). Anomalous Conductance Quantization in Carbon Nanotubes. Physical Review Letters, 94(2), 026801-1-026801-4. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Mason, N., Martin, J., Yacoby, A., Marcus, C. (2005). Erratum: Anomalous Conductance Quantization in Carbon Nanotubes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 026801 (2005)]. Physical Review Letters, 95(6), 069902-1. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Garaj, S., Mason, N., Chow, J., Marcus, C. (2005). Gate-Defined Quantum Dots on Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters, 5(7), 1267-1271. [More Information]
Mason, N., Biercuk, M., Marcus, C. (2004). Local Gate Control of a Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dot. Science, 303(5658), 655-658. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Mason, N., Marcus, C. (2004). Local Gating of Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters, 4(1), 1-4. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Mason, N., Chow, J., Marcus, C. (2004). Locally Addressable Tunnel Barriers within a Carbon Nanotube. Nano Letters, 4(12), 2499-2502. [More Information]
Biercuk, M., Monsma, D., Marcus, C., Becker, J., Gordon, R. (2003). Low-temperature atomic-layer-deposition lift-off method for microelectronic and nanoelectronic applications. Applied Physics Letters, 83(12), 2405-2407. [More Information]
Blakestad, R., Ospelkaus, C., VanDevender, A., Wesenberg, J., Biercuk, M., Leibfried, D., Wineland, D. (2012). Transport of Trapped-ion Qubits in a Scalable Architecture. 2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Piscataway: Optical Society of America.
Bollinger, J., Biercuk, M., Uys, H., Britton, J., Itano, W., Shiga, N. (2011). Dynamical Decoupling Experiments with Ion Crystals in Penning Traps. 41st Winter School on the Physics of Quantum Electronics PQE 2011, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis.
Biercuk, M., Uys, H., VanDevender, A., Ospelkaus, C., Shiga, N., Itano, W., Bollinger, J. (2010). Coherent control and large-scale entanglement in ion crystals. 10th International Conference on Quantum Control, Measurement, and Computation QCMC 2010, United States: Springer.
Uys, H., Biercuk, M., VanDevender, A., Ospelkaus, C., Meiser, D., Ozeri, R., Bollinger, J. (2010). Decoherence of Superposition States in Trapped Ions. 55th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics SAIP 2010, South African: South African Institute of Physics (SAIP).
Uys, H., Biercuk, M., Britton, J., VanDevender, A., Bollinger, J. (2010). Detecting yocto (10-24) newton forces with trapped ions. 55th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics SAIP 2010, South African: South African Institute of Physics (SAIP).
Uys, H., Biercuk, M., VanDevender, A., Bollinger, J. (2010). Prolonging Coherence in Trapped Ions. 55th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics SAIP 2010, South African: South African Institute of Physics (SAIP).
VanDevender, A., Amini, J., Biercuk, M., Blakestad, R., Bowler, R., Brown, K., Bollinger, J., Colombe, Y., Hanneke, D., Home, J., et al (2010). Recent advances in scalable ion-trap quantum information processing at NIST. 10th International Conference on Quantum Control, Measurement, and Computation QCMC 2010, United States: Springer.
Uys, H., Biercuk, M., VanDevender, A., Shiga, N., Itano, W., Bollinger, J. (2009). Prolonging qubit coherence: dynamical decoupling schemes studied in a Penning ion trap. Advanced Optical Concepts in Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication II 2009, Bellingham: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). [More Information]
Home, J., Jost, J., Amini, J., Biercuk, M., Blakestad, R., Bollinger, J., Britton, J., Brown, K., Hanneke, D., Hume, D., et al (2008). Progress towards Scalable Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions. Frontiers in Optics 2008 / Laser Science XXIV Conference FiO/LS 2008, United States: Optical Society of America.
Zolper, J., Biercuk, M. (2006). The path to adaptive microsystems. Intelligent Integrated Microsystems Conference 2006, United States: SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering. [More Information]
Sastrawan, J., Biercuk, M. (2016). Optimised stabilisation protocols for atomic clocks. Patent No. 9362929.
Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Biercuk, M. (2013). Australian science: A fair go means rewarding quality. ABC Science.
Biercuk, M. (2008). Short-Changing Our Future: America's Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish Approach to Supporting Tomorrow's Scientists, (pp. 1 - 7). Washington, United States of America: The Progressive Policy Institute.


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Descrizione
Corpo con grossa macchia centrale azzurro-blu, cerchiata e screziata in nero, bordi del mantello bianchi. rinofori giallo-arancio.

Biologia
Si nutre di spugne del genere Dysidea.

Distribuzione e habitat
Oceano Pacifico occidentale, raro nell'Oceano Indiano.

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Chromodorididae
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Turkey says Israel becoming 'racist, apartheid regime' with annexation plan
Sep 15, 2019 – http://www.swissinfo.ch
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attends a news conference in Riga, Latvia May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement of his intention to annex areas of the West Bank following next week's elections shows Israel is becoming a "racist, apartheid regime", Turkey's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Netanyahu said on Tuesday he would annex the Jordan Valley, a swathe of the occupied West Bank that Israel captured in 1967 and which Palestinians want as part of a future state. The move alarmed Middle Eastern nations, European powers and Arab foreign ministers.
On Saturday, Turkey's foreign ministry said the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would convene in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss Netanyahu's statement.
Speaking in Jeddah, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Netanyahu's "embarrassing" plan was a "despicable" attempt to earn votes ahead of Tuesday's election, and criticised what he called a lack of reaction from other Muslim countries.
"Israel, encouraged by the support of certain countries, is continuing its aggressive policies that are turning it into a racist, apartheid regime," Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
"If the whole Muslim community had reacted together, the reckless plans, policies and behaviour of the United States and Israel would never have reached this point," Cavusoglu said.
Around 65,000 Palestinians and 11,000 Israeli settlers live in the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea area, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem says. The main Palestinian city is Jericho, with some 28 villages and smaller Bedouin communities.
Turkey and Israel, former allies, have long been at odds over Israel's policy towards the Palestinians and Jerusalem's status. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for a summit of the OIC twice last year after U.S. President Donald Trump decided to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Turkey and Israel also expelled each other's top diplomats last year during a dispute over clashes when dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border. The two sides continue to trade with one another.
(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Dale Hudson)
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Democratic 2020 candidates pitch platforms to women of color, black mayors in early swing through Texas
Posted on April 24, 2019 April 25, 2019 by Patrick Svitek
The audience listens at the She the People Presidential Forum at Texas Southern University in Houston on Wednesday. Eight Democratic presidential candidates attended to answer questions.
Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune
HOUSTON — Texas' biggest city was at the center of the 2020 presidential race Wednesday as a group of Democratic candidates descended here to appeal to a key voting bloc in the primary.
Appearing at Texas Southern University, a historically black college, eight candidates made their pitches at a forum hosted by She the People, a national network of women of color. The three-hour event was one of the biggest gatherings of the Democratic primary candidates yet, let alone in Texas.
Taking questions from moderators and the audience, the candidates covered a range of issues that have already animated the primary — health care, criminal justice and voting rights — while sharpening their cases for how those issues impact women of color. The massive 2020 field is historically diverse, and most participants faced the same question at the end of their time onstage: Why should women of color choose you?
One of the candidates from Texas, Julián Castro, sought to make a personal connection.
"I am only here because of two very strong women," the former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor said in reference to his Mexican immigrant grandmother and his civil rights activist mother. "I grew up seeing both the struggles and the promise of two strong women of color, and I have dedicated my time in public service to making sure that people just like my mother and grandmother can do better in this country."
For some candidates — particularly those who are neither women nor people of color — the forum at times appeared to be a humbling experience. The other hopeful from Texas, Beto O'Rourke, paused before answering why women of color should back him, acknowledging that their support is "not something that I'm owed, not something that I expect" but "something that I fully hope to earn by the work that I do on the campaign trail." He cited a number of prominent black women in politics that he has learned from — including Houston U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a fellow Democrat who has a bill to study reparations that O'Rourke and several other candidates support.
Other candidates felt some heat as the moderators and the audience sought to keep them focused on the people who had come to listen. Asked how he'd win over women of color who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., initially responded by making a broad promise to unify the party no matter who the nominee is. Some in the crowd did not sound satisfied with the answer. A moderator pressed him to speak specifically about women of color, who he then said are an "integral part" of his campaign and would be just as important in his administration.
Rounding out the lineup was U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who got one of the most enthusiastic receptions of the afternoon as she interacted with fans in the crowd and repeatedly promised, "I have a plan." One of those plans was making medical providers create a pay structure that incentivizes them to bring down the disproportionately high rate of women of color who die during childbirth.
"Talk to the hospitals who are delivering these babies in a language they understand — the language of money," Warren told reporters afterward.
On the sidelines of the forum, candidates confronted an issue that has flared up in the primary in recent days: whether the incarcerated should be able to vote. Sanders recently said they should, prompting a debate in the party about how far voting rights should be extended to those in prison. After he spoke at the forum, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey told reporters he was frustrated that the issue had become another "political box-checking exercise" in the primary and wants to instead focus on halting a system of mass incarceration so that people don't needlessly end up behind bars in the first place.
Both Castro and O'Rourke fielded the question, similarly responding by expressing support for restoring the right to vote for nonviolent offenders.
"For violent criminals, it's much harder for me to reach that conclusion," O'Rourke said. "I feel like at that point you have broken a bond and a compact with your fellow Americans, and there has to be a consequence in civil life to that as well."
After they spoke at the forum, five of the candidates were slated to head downtown to address the yearly meeting of the African American Mayors Association. Those candidates include U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris, Booker, Castro and Sanders.
Of the eight contenders that She the People forum drew to the state, one of them, Sanders, was using the occasion to make a broader swing through Texas, with campaign rallies planned after the forum in Houston and Thursday in Fort Worth. It is his first trip to the state since announcing his campaign in mid-February. When he noted at an outdoor Houston rally later in the day that Trump carried Texas, the crowd booed. Sanders then described Trump's failed 2017 attempt to revamp the nation's health care system.
"So when Trump told the people of Texas he would provide health care to all people, he lied," he said.
For several other contenders who were in Houston on Thursday, it was their second trip to the state this year after previously visiting for their own events, fundraising or the South by Southwest festival in mid-March.
Abby Livingston contributed to this report.
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The candidate Whale Heritage Site, Hervey Bay, is situated in Queensland, Australia. The site is defined by the existing Great Sandy Marine Park boundary, with the primary area being Hervey Bay and Platypus Bay. It also encompasses the mainland township of Hervey Bay in the south to Bundaberg in the north and the sheltered western coastline of World Heritage listed Fraser Island.
In this area, a variety of marine mammal species can be seen; Whales: primarily humpback (Megaptera nobaeangliae), pilot whale, false killer whale, pigmy sperm whale and on occasion killer whale, minke whale and southern right whale; Dolphins: Indo-pacific, bottlenose; Other: the marine park is a stronghold of dugong and on occasion New Zealand fur seals.
Hervey Bay is renowned for viewing the Southern Humpback whale between mid-June to November, with the population on the rise and recovering after a history of whaling. In May they leave their rich feeding grounds in Antarctica and undergo a 5000km migration to their breeding grounds north of Fraser Island, in Whitsundays. At the beginning of the season adult individuals are likely to be seen, and towards the end, mothers and their calves arrive. They use the Hervey Bay site for resting and socialising, for about five days, before they undertake their long migration back to Antarctica.
Hervey Bay is commonly referred to as Australia's premier whale watching destination with the site being an internationally significant new-born calf nursery. Responsible, permitted whale watching tours and whale emersion experiences (currently trialling) are offered at Hervey Bay.
Hervey Bay has an excellent ocean environment management and supports and enhances other marine activities by offering dolphin watching, diving, snorkelling and world-class recreational boating and fishing experiences all year round.
For 27 years, cetacean research has played an important role within the region and continues to do so. It is home to the Marine Research Campus of the Sunshine Coast University, which has an extremely positive impact in the area. In addition, The Oceania Project ran whale research expeditions in Hervey Bay from 1989-2013. This provided a long term research platform to study and observe Humpback whales, to contribute towards our scientific understanding.
Along with research, education has a strong emphasis at the site with the Whale Discovery Sphere being open 7 days a week for educating the public.
In celebration of the whale season, the Hervey Bay community plays host to the annual Ocean Festival which comprises of several events including: blessing of the fleet, paddle out for whales commemoration, a seafood festival and an illumination parade, amongst a number of others.
Being an existing marine park and world heritage area, the proposed site already has the highest levels of environmental/conservation protection, including regulated approach distances, vessel management and research and tourism permitting. Due to this, Hervey Bay is currently working towards becoming a fully accredited Whale Heritage Site.


The citizens of Turkey's Hatay province, which borders Syria's Latakia and Idlib governorates, are looking forward to the eradication of the last major terrorist hotbed on the territory of the Arab Republic by Syrian government forces.
"We are waiting for the operation in Idlib, thanks to which jihadist groups and foreign forces, their supporters, will be expelled from the region. The people should return to a peaceful life," Hulya Kabuk, a representative of the Turkish Socialist Liberation Party, told Sputnik Turkey.
"No one can feel safe here in the streets, everyone is afraid of possible terrorist attacks. We all want the end of the war in Syria, we want the Syrian people to participate in the decision-making on the fate of their country," Kabuk said.
Kerem Nalbant, the co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party in Hatay, echoed Kabuk by saying that the Idlib operation should start as soon as possible.
"Now the operation in Idlib, which became a hotbed of terrorist groups, is high on the agenda," Nalbant underscored. "According to some reports, about 80,000 jihadists are located there. The inhabitants of Hatay are extremely concerned about this situation. We support the plan of the [Syrian] government forces to attack Idlib, but we advocate for taking all the measures to ensure the safety of civilians [there]."
"We believe that Idlib will become the final milestone on the way to the end of the war," he underscored. "We also expect that after the Idlib operation, the Turkish-Syrian border will finally be opened for the free movement of civilians."
He recalled that the regions had been involved in active trade and interactions before the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011. "We want this to become possible again," Kanatli said. "After the operation in Idlib, the Syrian people and all ethnic groups will be able to breathe freely."
Cem Kucuk, a Hatay resident, insisted that the Syrian Arab Army's operation against the terrorist hotbed should be kicked off urgently.
"Idlib is an extremely important region of Syria, and it must be immediately cleared of all terrorist elements in order to ensure the territorial integrity of Syria," Kucuk emphasized. "I think that the Syrian government forces will not delay the operation."
"They conduct precise strikes on certain areas, where there are no civilians," Kucuk noted. "In general, everything indicates that the end of the war in Syria nears, and the Syrian authorities will win."
Given this, Ankara needs to start a dialogue with Damascus, the Hatay resident opined. He believes that mutual compromise will play into the hands of both Syria and Turkey.
The forthcoming Syrian Arab Army's operation in Idlib has already come under criticism from Washington and Ankara. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged the international community to prevent the operation claiming that it would be a "humanitarian disaster."
For their part, Moscow, Damascus and Tehran point to the obvious fact that the liberation of Idlib from Tahrir al-Sham* and al-Nusra* terrorists will pave the way for political settlement in the country, reconciliation and the restoration of the Arab Republic.
*Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Fatah al-Sham), are terrorist groups, banned in Russia.


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The African Roots of Jazz Music (1800's)
The slaves who came from West Africa carried the first seeds of jazz music despite the horrid living conditions in the American South. European influences helped nurture those seeds into becoming the earlier known for of jazz music. It's an infusion that took decades to reach fruition.
At that point, jazz was no longer African nor European but a purely American art form. Therefore, without the slave trade, jazz wouldn't have evolved. In other countries, where African slaves were separated in close communities, they retained their pure African music.
Jazz Reaches Maturation (Early 20th Century)
Jazz took its distinctive musical style with the coming together of many elements over time. It manifested in work songs, religious hymns, and funeral processions. Furthermore, it became a popular dance music.
Due to racism, black people who performed as jazz musicians found themselves out of work. Therefore, they picked up ragtime and that's when jazz started to enter a new evolution phase. It was the time of New Orleans Jazz.
Modern Jazz As We Know It
Jazz evolved in New Orleans between 1910 and 1915. It was the time of jazz giants who played the cornet and clarinet including Buddy Bolden, Buddy Petit, and Keppard. Strangely enough, a mediocre group of white musicians called the Original Dixieland Jazz Band created the first jazz records in New York City. Although they were from New Orleans, they weren't representative of New Orleans jazz.
Depending on how you define "jazz music," it wasn't confined to New Orleans. Musicians played jazz all over the United States including Los Angeles, Missouri, and Colorado.
History of American jazz
The history of American jazz music is fascinating. First of all, African American developed jazz through a blend of European harmonic configuration and African tribal rhythms. Jazz influenced ragtime and blues and was influenced by them. Throughout its history, jazz was an improvised, instrumental music. How to define jazz? From New Orleans style, smooth jazz, to 1950s jazz songs, the immortal words of Louis Armstrong ring true: "If you have to ask, you'll never know."
However, creativity is the driving force of jazz. A jazz musician performs his own interpretation of the composition. Unlike classical music where the performers play the music the same way every time.
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There is no piano concerto more beloved than the Second Piano Concerto by Rachmaninoff. When Nobuyuki Tsujii was in the Van Cliburn Competition this masterwork was one of the pieces he played and the audience loved it and love him! In 2009 James Conlon and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra played it together with Nobuyuki. In this magnificent recording the blind pianist joins conductorr Yutaka Sado and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin. It is unbelievable that the pianist learned the formidable scores of the Second Piano Concerto by Rachmaninoff by ear and it is not a surprise that Nobuyuki Tsujii has become a worldwide sensation sice the after the Van Cliburn Competition and his winning of the Goid medal!


Evelyn's Blog - Feb 10, 2018 - "THE DEBT"
I learned that people do not like to read fiction on blogs. A case was made for an author who only sold six copies of her short story on her blog, but when she sold it on Amazon for $2.99 it went like a crazy sale. Well, I had put up one of my short stories on my website for FREE, and interestingly only six people wrote to me about it (raved about it, by the way) .
"Jewish young man and gentile young woman become engaged, then marry. The young man works for the United Nations. Will its ideals work for these two cultures confronting each other?"
Please take a look at this short story "The Debt" on Amazon Kindle. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B079NT72Z8.
It's even better now that I've edited it one more time. If it flies as a solo with enough sales, I'll put up more stories that are absolute pips!
Please tell your friends to become my blog subscribers. Very easy to remember the address: EvelynMarshall.com.
Edith Wharton's Ancestral Home "The Mount"
Edith Wharton is one of my favorite authors. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with "The Age of Innocence". She wrote about the highest tiers of wealth and society, in which she lived, about their locked-in code of impeccable behavior, while beneath that code roared gossip and hypocrisy, immorality and corruption.
Although published in 1920 and awarded the Pulitzer in 1921, the era depicted was the 1850's. It was her 12th novel.
She came from the uppermost reaches of American wealth that she depicted. She married a man who proved unfaithful (and unbalanced) and remained married to him for 25 years. But she broke loose in her literature and in her subsequent life in Paris helping the WW1 war effort. Edith Wharton was a critic of her social class who sacrificed the individual to unbending tradition. She writes with excruciating honesty and wit.
The film is magnificently close to Edith Wharton's novel. The surprise is the producer-director: Martin Scorsese, generally known for his gangster films. He made this masterpiece of a film in homage to his father.
The film is a fastidiously elegant work of art visually, narratively, and in every other way. The actors did their part: Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, and Michelle Pfeiffer, and all the character actors.
The novel begins at an opera where the upper class is properly sitting in their boxes. "Boxes" is a metaphor for locked-in proper place for decorum and standards.
There are two main women in the novel: the loving conformist wife May, Ryder) and his mistress Madame Olenska (Pfeiffer), the decadent woman who speaks to Newland Archer's artistic sensibilities. Archer is trapped between these two. His wife traps him and he falls back into the society of conformity and responsibility.
Of Edith Wharton's novels, I also recommend, "House of Mirth", "Custom of the Country", and "Ethan Frome". Of her short stories, 'Roman Fever' stands out. But "An Age of Innocence" is her absolute finest work.
Wharton's life changed when World War I began. She traveled extensively by motorcar through Europe, opening schools and hostels for refugees in northern France and Belgium. She also wrote reports for American publications, supporting American involvement in the war. After the war, Wharton only returned to the United States once in her lifetime (to accept her Pulitzer prize).
Throughout her life, Wharton frequently held salon, hosting gatherings where the most gifted intellectuals of her time could share thoughts and discuss ideas. Teddy Roosevelt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway were all Wharton's guests at one time or another. Besides these salons, Wharton's friendship with Henry James had an immense influence on her work. Wharton continued writing voraciously until her death at age 75 in France. She is buried in the American Cemetery at Versailles.
In this novel "The Age of Innocence", society travelled on giant ships for months at a time. They brought their trunks and pets, and were spoiled with constant dining sociability, indulgent room service, and daily town tours.
Marv and I have traveled a great deal through the world. People think that travelers automatically have lots of material to write about. Not true. There's no connection. Maybe some scenery, but not in terms of interesting plots. I say this because as with the wealthy set, such as in "The Age of Innocence," they returned home the same people as before they left. Only fatter.
Let's say for a moment that your hometown is Oxnard or Bakersfield or Salinas, and you take the Grand Tour of Europe. Do you come home plot heavy? Or just try writing lots of description and see what you've got that others want to read. I think what you say is, "Home sweet home".
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Eight-three percent of patients diagnosed at first stage of cancer are able to survive up to 5 years. Treatment at this stage usually includes surgery and several sessions of chemotherapy. Four of the five patients remain alive because at this stage, the cancer is very easy to remove because it is still limited to one part of the body.
It is when the Esophageal Cancer begins spreading out from a network other that the survival rate of Esophageal Cancer can be quite low. And at the final stage, only 1 out of 8 people survive the cancer and add 5 or more years in their lives.
The good thing is more than half of the patients with Esophageal Cancer diagnosed in the first stage. Hopefully, this will improve more with the help of the more advanced equipment and more medical mission to spread awareness of Esophageal Cancer not only in the United States but also around the world.
Esophageal cancer is the growth of abnormal cells on the area of the esophagus, namely the channel link between the esophagus and the stomach. There are two types of esophageal cancer, namely squamous cell cancer and adenocarcinoma.
Squamous cell cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) is a cancer that occurs in the cells that form the surface of the esophagus. Whereas adenocarcinoma (adenocarcinoma) is the growth of cells abonomal that occur in the cells that produce mucus. The mucus functions as a lubricant for food passing through the esophagus.
Until now the cause of cancer of the esophagus could not be ascertained. However, there are risk factors that trigger the occurrence of this cancer.
In general, You are more at risk of developing cancer if the pattern of Your life is less healthy –such as obese, rarely eat vegetables and fruits, smoking, as well as having a habit is not healthy. Exposure to these risk factors can damage the DNA of cells in the esophagus and cause irritation repeated, resulting in a change of cell into a cancer cell.
To determine the diagnosis of esophageal cancer, the doctor will gather information from the patient to determine symptoms and presence of risk factors on a person. In addition, a physical examination will be focused on the area of the neck and chest.
Dysphagia or difficulty in swallowing: generally begins on solid foods, but can continue to be difficult to swallow liquids.
Decreased appetite and weight loss (due to difficulty swallowing or due to the cancer cell itself).
Chest pain or sensation of heat in the chest (associated with GERD).
Bleeding in the esophagus, which can cause vomiting blood black-colored.
Type and stage of esophageal cancer contribute to treatment options. The stage of cancer of the esophagus is determined from the growth of cancer in the wall of the esophagus, spread of cancer to the tissues around, also the spread of cancer to the lymph nodes.
therapeutic endoscopy, such as endoscopic mucosal resection, photodynamic therapy, radiofrequency ablation, stent esophagus, and some other type.


Avaya, one of the leading brands in the world for cloud communication and collaboration, recently held their "ENGAGE" conference between the 20th and 23rd of January this year. The conference is one of the world's largest events for unified communications and contact centre users, where Avaya partners and customers came together to explore new products and explore the potential of the Avaya portfolio.
I was lucky enough to attend Avaya Engage this year, and while I was there, I caught up with Michael Kuch, the Product Management & Marketing Strategy Executive for Telecoms, IoT and Cloud in Avaya.
According to Mike, Avaya wants to make their portfolio as easy, streamlined and modern as possible in the age of evolving user and customer experience.
Kuch said that Avaya wanted to make sure that their cloud solution was as simple as possible before they began looking for new ways to take their customers to the next level with technology.
How Is Avaya Encouraging Adoption of the Cloud?
Part of Avaya's convergence strategy is to make all of their services available through the cloud so that customers can be as agile and flexible as they want to be. To encourage their partners and resellers to follow them on their path to cloud, Avaya has introduced solutions like Loyalty 2gether – their comprehensive suite of services designed to help partners move customers into the cloud.


Dipped My Head Under Water.
Recently I went through a confusing and upsetting time due to a minor personal challenge. As circumstances of this situation began to unfold I could feel myself slipping. While the norm of my character is to fight and move through difficult times, I found taking a step back from life, allowing the moment to be experienced fully was the natural reaction in this case. It wasn't a conscious decision, something else took over. I had no choice but to endure the sadness I felt.
While going with the flow of this temporary low I found myself grieving for the yoga studio I closed last year, realising I hadn't allowed myself to do so at the time. To deal with closing down my dream and vision I kept going, taking up yoga classes immediately in other local studios. It just goes to show you how life catches up with you eventually. Now I wonder if the minor personal challenge was a catalyst to let go and release the running of a yoga studio and other career goals I have not been able to achieve.
During this down period other parts of my life suffered. I didn't feel inspired to write blogs; my yoga teaching and own personal practice lacked enthusiasm. Only yoga teachers can understand what it's like to go through these phases. On the outside, to everyone who comes to yoga, most classes are exactly like any normal class. For the yoga teacher, there is concern that if one isn't feeling inspired on their own yoga mat how can you benefit your yoga students? Therefore the job is not being done well. I can't say every yoga teacher feels this way. I certainly do and it can weigh on my mind, which doesn't help matters.
Thankfully, a few weeks ago I felt myself come back to life. While deep in thought one day I found myself saying in my mind "I am looking forward to being back to myself". As I caught myself thinking this I corrected that thought – giving recognition to the 'not myself period' as a very full and vital part of me. This train of thought reminded me of a blog I had posted a few months ago: Lila's Lotus Flower, describing the metaphoric significance of the lotus flower according to tantra philosophy. The lotus flower dips its head under water at night to travel through the murky waters of materialism, through the waters of experience, before it can once again become a thousand petals that signify the light of enlightenment.
I realised my down time had been a temporary and crucial dive underwater. The minute I reflected on this everything shifted. I suddenly felt excited knowing that my petals are about to appear in all their glory once again. What was even more rewarding was the joy I felt to be back to my positive, motivated and ambitious self with new founded appreciation. I would almost say I had a level of acknowledgment I had not previously felt.
My down time reminded me that in order to experience joy we have to experience challenging moments. There is no light without darkness, there is no pleasure without pain. All we can hope for is the ability to move through difficult times with relative ease, knowing there is always light at the end of the tunnel and learning in it all. I am more reassured in this philosophy and fully believe the more we can accept life as it comes the happier we will be. The continued practice of yoga, meditation and reflection supports and develops this very valuable peace of mind.
Be happy, Be peaceful, Be Free!


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Joseph Chellayya Daniel Nadar (28 November 1900  27 April 1975) was an Indian filmmaker who is considered as the father of Malayalam cinema. He was the first film-maker from Kerala. He produced, directed, wrote, photographed, edited and acted in the first film made in Kerala, Vigathakumaran (The Lost Child). He also established the first film studio in Kerala, The Travancore National Pictures. The Government of Kerala instituted the Kerala State Film Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1992 in his name, as a part of the Kerala State Film Awards, to honour lifetime achievements in Malayalam Cinema.

Early life

Daniel was born on 26 February 1900 to a Christian family in Agasteeswaram taluk, Travancore State (present-day Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu). He finished his formal education from Maharaja's College, Trivandrum.  He published an English book titled Indian Art of Fencing and Sword Play in 1915, when he was 15 years old.

Learning film making

Daniel was well aware of the scope of cinema as a public medium. He wished to popularise Kalarippayattu by harnessing the popular influence of cinema. At that time the common man of Kerala was not even aware of the medium of cinema, hence the idea was quite a challenge. He took up the challenge and left for Madras (now Chennai) to learn techniques of film-making and to acquire necessary equipment for the purpose. Madras was the budding centre of film production in South India and had the only permanent talkies in South India, named Gaiety which was established in 1917. However, he was unable to realise his plans in Madras and was even denied entry to various studios in the city. That didn't stop the determined Daniel from pursuing his dream. He travelled to Bombay (now Mumbai), the centre of Hindi cinema production. He was able to obtain entry into film studios in the city, claiming that he is a teacher from Kerala and wanted to teach his students about cinema. He gathered enough knowledge and equipment for film production from Bombay and came back to Kerala to fulfill his dream.

Production of Vigathakumaran

In 1926, Daniel established the first film studio in Kerala named The Travancore National Pictures. It was near the present Public Service Commission office, Pattom, Trivandrum. He obtained funds for this purpose by selling a piece of land in his name for an amount of Rs.400,000. With everything set, Daniel finally started the production work of the film of his dreams. He wrote the script and titled it Vigathakumaran. The film did not have sound or dialogue. He directed and wielded the camera for the film and also played the role of the protagonist in the film. P. K. Rosie acted as the heroine. He also did most of the post-production work including editing.  The theme of the film was of social significance and was one of the earliest films of the genre.

Post-release of Vigathakumaran

Vigathakumaran was exhibited in Trivandrum at the Capitol Theatre on 7 November 1928. Despite being the very first film made in Kerala and having a socially-significant message, it faced the wrath of certain orthodox sections in the society due to the presence of a woman in the film. Rosie, who played the role of the female protagonist, was disbarred from entering the theatre, as upper-caste Hindus, outraged that a converted dalit played the role of a Nair woman in the film, created a ruckus. During the screening, stones were pelted on the screen, damaging it. The film did moderate business at the box office but the collections were way below the production cost.

The movie was also screened in Alleppey at the Star Theatre. Since it was a silent movie, there was an announcer at the theatre who would explain the story and the situation. Alleppey being one of the most important port towns in Kerala during that time, the audience were more liberal. They received the movie with excitement. There was a minor glitch once, when the screen faded and the audience booed. After the announcer explained that some minor problems might occur since this was the first Malayalam movie ever made and screened, the audience welcomed his statement with applause.

Vigathakumaran was also screened at Quilon, Trichur, Tellichery and Nagercoil.

Daniel became indebted as the movie was not a commercial success. To pay his debtors, he had to sell his equipments and close down the studio. He spent the rest of his life as a dentist at Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu. He spent his last years in his ancestral home called NEW HOUSE at Agastheeswaram. Though he applied for pension under the scheme for ailing artists, the Government rejected it since he was born in Tamil Nadu.  In his books and articles, noted film journalist Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan originally established that Vigathakumaran was the first Malayalam film and that Daniel was its architect as director, producer, cinematographer and leading man.  He described the story of Vigathakumaran in articles published since 1960, but Kerala Government initially rejected his crusade citing Daniel was not a Malayalee. The Government version was that if Daniel wanted a pension or financial assistance, he has to approach the Tamil Nadu Government. However,Gopalakrishnan's campaign was finally successful and Daniel obtained government recognition as a Keralite, being honoured as the Father of Malayalam Cinema.

J.C Daniel died on 27 April 1975 and was survived by his wife.

J. C. Daniel Award

The Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala instituted the J. C. Daniel Award in honour of him in 1992. The award, a part of the Kerala State Film Awards is to honour lifetime achievements in outstanding contributions to Malayalam cinema. From 1998, the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, an autonomous body under the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala hosts the award.

J. C. Foundation Award
The awards are instituted by the J.C. Foundation, which was founded in memory of J.C. Daniel by his family and friends. The awards are given away annually for achievements in Malayalam film-making and literature. The film awards are given away in a variety of categories while the literature award is given for the best Malayalam novel.

Biographical film

In 2013, Kamal wrote and directed a biopic on Daniel titled Celluloid. The film details the struggles of Daniel to produce and exhibit Vigathakumaran, while plunging into financial crisis. The movie also generated criticism over its subtle reference to an IAS Officer and the then Chief Minister, which purportedly points to the bureaucrat & writer Malayattoor Ramakrishnan and K. Karunakaran, who worked together to deny J. C. Daniel credit for his contribution to Malayalam Cinema since he was a Christian (ref: audio recording of Chelangat Gopalakrishnan produced by Akashawani and published by a TV channel). Author and civil servant N. S. Madhavan and D. Babu Paul, former Chief Secretary of Kerala have pointed out factual inaccuracies in the film's depiction of Malayattoor and Karunakaran. The film, based partially on the novel Nashta Naayika by Vinu Abraham and the Life of J. C. Daniel, a biography by film journalist Chelangat Gopalakrishnan, also deals with the life of Rosie, the lead actress in Vigathakumaran. Prithviraj plays the role of Daniel, while Mamta Mohandas plays his wife Janet and newcomer Chandni plays Rosie. The film won 7 Kerala State Film Awards in different categories including that for Best Film.

The Lost Life is a documentary on Daniel by R. Gopalakrishnan.

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1900 births
1975 deaths
People from Kanyakumari district
Male actors from Tamil Nadu
Filmmaking pioneers
20th-century Indian film directors


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The Dvarsh
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Pygmalion Days
June 11, 2018Robertdvarsh, Prelude to a Change of Mind, Stikmantica, Thrm'm0
A base sketch of Ekaterina Rigidstick, major player in tales of Habdvarsha. This is my first attempt at her portrait since the character was created.
It's all one thing, as I've insisted before. In the way of the imperfect imagination rattling around this particular noggin, writing is part of drawing is part of making music is part of writing. There is no writing mind separate from drawing mind or music mind. The ball can stay on one court or bounce across sectors. It's one thing in all its variety. Likely you know this already.
An advantage of crosswiring is "get out of jail free" for creative block. If the juice doesn't flow in one medium, there is another, or another. Whatever has been stoppered unstoppers in sympathy with the new stream. Or it doesn't, but something else desirable comes together while vexation cools its heels.
Preparation of a new version of my first novel, Prelude to a Change of Mind, is in its final phases. Look for announcement of a Stikmantica release date soon. Revision has been extensive. The main labor for this version was an edit undertaken with the same rigor I have required when editing for others. This is no softening of my belief in separating author and editor roles. Fact is, necessity precludes hiring it out. In this case, the roles are separated by time, which means an older editor unwilling to put up with a younger author's lazy ways. The result is the same story, but a new book. An embodiment of the reality it describes.
Progress has been much less rapid than early optimism brayed. The main stumble has been the author. He is stubborn, inflexible, unreasonable, addicted to prolixity and expedience, and prone to fall asleep instantly when approached about difficult changes. The only way to proceed with some revisions has been to wait out attachment to bad ideas, and then remove them while he dozed.
One labor of revision has involved breathing life into characters that were little more than paper cut-outs. Since publication of the original version in 2000, a suggestion I have ignored many times has been to draw the characters. Because I sketch quite a lot as part of my writing process, it may seem inconsistent that I have never produced an illustration of a dvarsh or thrm. There has been reason behind this.
Way back years ago, when I showed rough drawings to a couple of people who had read the story, I was told that the dvarsh of my doodles were not dvarsh and the thrm'm were not thrm'm. Informants voiced opinions in strong terms, showing positive engagement with the tale. That was cool, even if it raised a question of what words on the page actually said the beings looked like. As an exercise, I asked those critics and a few other early readers to draw two characters, Ekaterina and Sweetheart, which a couple did, in great detail. I did not see my characters in the results, but what do I know? Novels are only scripts for stories that unfold in readers' heads. Woe if my imagistic scribbles hobble free flight in the read!
Unless, that is, I need to bring my own view of a character into sharper focus. This has been part and parcel of the task at hand. Ekaterina Rigidstick, Ekhater'na hR'dj'dst'k, is one of the characters I created in 1984 when I daydreamed the image that spawned all of Habdvarsha and set out to discover everything leading up to that consequential moment. Never until recently have I tried to create Ekaterina's portrait. Once started, I began seeing her early in the grid I drew to prepare the sheet.*
Before features were blocked in, I talked to the face, "Yes, I know you. I've known you for a very long time."
As I write this, she occupies the extreme right hand of the drawing table. Left and center positions are taken by problem-solving sketches for Nod's Way. I hesitated to post her in this preliminary state, but you never know when I'll decide I've learned whatever was needed from the exercise and, since no project in the pipeline requires her portrait, move it to the box of incomplete processes. She may never be much more finished than this. That inner, mumbling conscience-thing reminds me constantly that Nod's Way is a defined project, key to the Stikmantic master plan, and could spread across the whole drawing table with justification.
The pencil work displayed here will be submerged if the illustration proceeds. Her hair will be dark. The rest you will see should we get there. In this representation, she is around 230 years old, which corresponds to middle twenties in human life scale. Scientist, mage, diplomat, scholar, social activist and martial artist, she is foremost a wise, generous friend. I draw her for a bit, then I hear her speak as she actually speaks, and I go back to mend the story.
As I have drawn on Ekaterina, I have also kept an eye on the Nod's Way design problem to her left. Sidelong glances did what straight-on couldn't. A route out of perplexity has been found. One more benefit of creative switcheroo.
* It's true. I grid out every drawing. I outline every fiction. Often, I take up Irish bouzouki with no plan whatsoever.
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Annual G-Camp Goes Virtual
August 2020 Ken Milam, Explorer Correspondent
After 13 years of taking teachers into the field, this year's G-Camp was held virtually in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said.
"I was going to cancel this year and wait until next year, but I have been doing this for so many years that I decided I could not stop," said Rick Giardino of the Texas A&M Geology and Geophysics Department, who leads the program.
The program is aimed at 5th through 12th-grade teachers and offers supplemental material for the teachers' science curriculum. The goal is to have teachers return to the classroom with new knowledge and excited about what they are teaching, and ultimately for "the kids to come to college saying, 'I want to enroll in geology,'" Giardino said.
Aramco Americas has supported the program for more than a decade, and this year provided the textbooks, Geology of National Parks, 7th Edition, and also loaned a veteran geologist to offer insights.
Tim Diggs, geological consultant for the Upstream Department of Aramco Americas, served on this year's G-Camp Advisory Committee and participated in online meetings, helping to teach the curriculum. In the past, he has been in the field with the teachers, and said he hopes to have brought "work world experience" to the camp.
Tim Diggs, Geological Consultant, Upstream, Aramco Americas, serves on this year's G-Camp Advisory Committee and participated in the virtual program, offering his insights and work experience in geology. Diggs was out in the field last year with participants. Photo courtesy of Aramco Americas.
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This year's theme was, "The Geology of North America Through the National Park Experience." It featured videos, daily small group sessions with teachers and instructors, and homework assignments designed to support lesson plans for the coming school year. A dedicated web page hosted the curriculum materials and served as a hub for all G-Camp resources. The camp ran from June 25 through July 14.
Almost As Good as the Real Thing
While "there is no substitute for being in the field," the virtual G-Camp will try to duplicate the experience as much as possible, Diggs said.
Teachers were taught about U.S. landforms and geology through virtual visits to at least 18 national parks – an itinerary not possible with the past field trips' travel itinerary.
It avoids the prospect of lengthy bus trips. The virtual jump all over North America focused on parks with distinct geological features, such as glaciers, dunes and seashores: Glacier National Park in Montana, White Sands National Park in New Mexico and many others were studied.
"It's not the same as actually looking at the rocks in situ," but it allowed the group to learn and view land forms from all over the nation, Diggs said. The Texas A&M organizers said the virtual experience delivered a deep dive into geomorphology and a great primer for the teachers. Diggs has visited about a dozen of the parks on this year's program.
Two videos were featured: "America's Best Idea: The National Parks," a Ken Burns documentary; and National Geographic's "Geology of North America Through the National Parks."
The Future of G-Camp
Participation was down somewhat this year, but still offered a rich learning experience, Giardino said. Participants were chosen from applications in November, he said. As the pandemic worsened and the prospect of canceling the camp arose, Giardino said he considered a virtual camp and surveyed the applicants.
"Everybody wanted to do it," he said.
Those who completed the virtual camp are invited to attend next year's camp, which Giardino hopes will be back in the field. While the virtual camp will focus on the basics, these returning participants will have a richer, more advanced experience, he said. Giardino said that if things go as he hopes, a virtual camp will be open to everyone every fall, with the top participants chosen to follow through with the field trips the next year.
The program also has developed an online community of teachers. G-Camp has a public Facebook group of about 500 members – "On the Road with Geology Camp for Teachers" – where current and past participants post and share their experiences. The group is active and members also utilize Twitter, said organizers.
For the first nine years of G Camp, participation was limited to Texas, then it opened to wider participation a few years ago. Giardino hopes to eventually make the camp international.
This year's 31 participants hail from 16 states across the U.S.: Massachusetts, Connecticut, North Carolina, Texas, Maryland, Oklahoma, Georgia, California, New York, Alabama, Oregon, Vermont, Nevada, New Jersey, Florida and South Dakota.
This year's textbook is more than 1,000 pages in a ring-binder format, so teachers can rearrange the chapters to help organize and focus on subjects according to their classroom plans.
Giardino said the online meetings were broken down into groups of about five teachers each, which allowed more interaction among the students and their instructors. Meetings will first be broken down according to time zones, then later by grade level.
Another advantage of the virtual camp this year is that it allows participants to become acquainted in advance of the field trips. "They get to know each other, pick roommates," Giardino said. He admits they were "flying by the seat of their pants" this year. But the mission remains the same: get students interested and excited about geology.
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Benitez focused on 'next challenge'
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Chelsea may have become the first Champions League holders to exit at the group stage, but interim manager Rafael Benitez remained positive as attention turned to Europa League glory.
The Blues did all they could by beating FC Nordsjaelland 6-1 at Stamford Bridge, but their efforts proved futile as Juventus' victory at Shakhtar Donetsk condemned them to third place in Group E. The Europa League now awaits the west Londoners, whose manager Benitez collected his first win since replacing Roberto di Matteo.
"Can we change the result of the other game? No," the Spaniard said. "Can we change the situation? No. So we have to think about what we can change, which is improving and be ready for the next challenge."
He continued: "The game was out of our hands. I said before that we had to do our job and, as a manager, you have to be really pleased with the performance of the team. There were 32 attempts, 18 on target, six goals, a lot of clear chances, so you have to think about the positives after this performance.
"You also have to be really disappointed because you cannot progress in the Champions League. You ask me if I will take the Europa League seriously; every competition is important for us so we will try to do our best and win if we can."
For many the Europa League is seen as an unwanted distraction, which can disrupt domestic form and offers little financial reward.
"The Europa League is not important if you don't win," Benitez said. "When you are in the semi-final or the final, everyone wants to win it. We know that it is an important competition and we want to go as far as we can and if we can win the competition, we will try to do that."
However, that would be scant reward for a Chelsea side that were lifting the Champions League just seven months ago. Benitez was not at the helm for the first five Group E matches but was proud of the way his players stepped up to the mark in a late attempt to make amends.
"They knew we had to win and for me the performance reflected that," he added. "They were so good and said 'We have to do our job'.
"They took that responsibility and did really well. You can't go back and change things and the only thing they could do was improve, prepare properly and win."
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