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Alex Pizzuto

@ajpizzuto

Research at Google Quantum AI丨PhD from @uw_icecube / @UWMadison丨He/him 丨 Opinions my own

 Denver, CO
apizzuto.github.io/
Joined February 2019
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"arXiv of our own" for STEM academics to write fanfic about what we wish academia was like
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Kevin Satzinger@KJSatz27 Aug 2024
Check out our latest preprint @GoogleQuantumAI pushing the surface code to the next level! - Below threshold (Λ > 2) - Distance-7 logical qubit, 0.0014 error per cycle, >2x better than physical qubits - Explore 10^-10 error regime with repetition codes arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687
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Quantum computers aren’t what you think. They’re cooler. Watch our #TED2024 TED Talk from Hartmut Neven, founder & head of Google Quantum AI → goo.gle/3LuOA4y See how a quantum computer works, learn about quantum fundamentals, current and future applications, and more.
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A big congratulations to Professor Francis Halzen on being elected to the @theNASciences National Academy of Sciences! 🎉
National Academy of Sciences (@theNASciences) profile pictureNational Academy of Sciences@theNASciences30 Apr 2024
We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 24 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research. Congratulations to our new #NASmembers and welcome to the Academy!
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🔔New IceCube results to be published in @ScienceMag tomorrow! For the first time, IceCube found evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from NGC 1068, an active galaxy in the constellation Cetus and one of the most familiar and well-studied galaxies. #IceCubeNGC1068
Hubble image of the NGC 1068 galaxy

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My thesis research was submitted!
IceCube Neutrino Observatory (@uw_icecube) profile pictureIceCube Neutrino Observatory@uw_icecube31 Oct 2022
🔔📜IceCube paper submitted to ApJ! We looked for lower-energy events in the direction of the high-energy alert events and searched in different time scales. We constrained the abundance of astrophysical neutrino sources in the universe. Story ➡️icecube.wisc.edu/news/resear…
Map of high-energy neutrino candidates (“alert events”) detected by IceCube. The map is in celestial coordinates, with the Galactic plane indicated by a line and the Galactic center by a dot. Two contours are shown for each event, for 50% and 90% confidence in the localization on the sky. The color scale shows the “signalness” of each event, which quantifies the likelihood that each event is an astrophysical neutrino rather than a background event from Earth’s atmosphere.

ALT Map of high-energy neutrino candidates (“alert events”) detected by IceCube. The map is in celestial coordinates, with the Galactic plane indicated by a line and the Galactic center by a dot. Two contours are shown for each event, for 50% and 90% confidence in the localization on the sky. The color scale shows the “signalness” of each event, which quantifies the likelihood that each event is an astrophysical neutrino rather than a background event from Earth’s atmosphere.

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📢 Major announcement coming soon! Join us Thursday, November 3 @ 1:00 PM CDT to hear some exciting IceCube results! Details ➡️icecube.wisc.edu/news/collab…”
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IceCube researchers turned to @GoogleCloud and its ability to run GPUs and utilize Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to help turbocharge their computing resources.💻 Read more ⬇️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/2022/1…
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Congratulations to our own Ibrahim Safa, who successfully defended his thesis, "New Physics with PeV Astrophysical Neutrino Beams" last week! Doctor Safa's supervisors were @carguelles314 and @uw_icecube PI Francis Halzen.
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Image from Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (@uw_wipac)
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MMitchell
@mmitchell_ai17 Jun 2022
New piece from @timnitGebru and me, with editing help from @katzish 🤗 Thanks to WaPo for the opportunity! washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Opinion | We warned Google that people might believe AI was sentient. Now it’s happening.

Opinion | We warned Google that people might believe AI was sentient. Now it’s happening.

The hype is distracting from the real pitfalls of bots that mimic humans, risks that many companies would rather ignore.

washingtonpost.com
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We have two faculty awards to celebrate this morning! Keith Bechtol was one of 83 scientists from across the country selected to the DOE/@energy Early Career Research Program physics.wisc.edu/2022/06/07/…
Keith Bechtol selected to Department of Energy Early Career Research Program

Keith Bechtol selected to Department of Energy Early Career Research Program

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced the selection of 83 scientists — including University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor Keith Bechtol — to the Early Career Research...

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Thank you @cdwoolston and @Nature for covering Biology grad students struggle to afford to live: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

Nature - As inflation rates soar, new data on the finances of US graduate students spark calls for action.

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🏆Say hello 👋 to the winners of the spring 2022 IceCube Impact Awards! Those awarded are recognized for their broader contributions to IceCube that are normally not published. Congratulations! 💙 Read a bit about the recipients here ⬇️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/awards…
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Image from IceCube Neutrino Observatory (@uw_icecube)
Image from IceCube Neutrino Observatory (@uw_icecube)
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The least useful kind of Doctor
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Posed portrait in graduation regalia with a diploma with family

ALT Posed portrait in graduation regalia with a diploma with family

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astrobites@astrobites29 Apr 2022
From @jessie_thwaites: People of all identities deserve a supportive and welcoming climate to work and learn in. Today’s article and paper, in Physics Education Research, discusses the impacts of department climate on LGBTQ+ people in physics. astrobites.org/2022/04/29/de…
Developing an inclusive culture for LGBTQ+ physicists

Developing an inclusive culture for LGBTQ+ physicists

People of all identities deserve a supportive and welcoming climate to work and learn in. Today’s article and paper, in Physics Education Research, discusses the impacts of department climate on...

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Our most recent tau neutrino article made it to the cover of PRL! Next stop, Rolling Stone? journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac…
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Thank you so much to everyone for the outpouring of love and support! I wanted to share the most important page of my dissertation:
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Alex Pizzuto (@ajpizzuto) profile pictureAlex Pizzuto@ajpizzuto27 Apr 2022
PhinisheD! 🎉🍾🍾🎉
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PhinisheD! 🎉🍾🍾🎉
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Less than 24 hours until my defense!! There will be a zoom option, feel free to DM if you're dying to hear about cosmic neutrino sources 😅
UW-Madison Physics (@UWMadPhysics) profile pictureUW-Madison Physics@UWMadPhysics25 Apr 2022
🎓🥳 Thesis defense announcement: Tomorrow at 2pm CT, Alex Pizzuto (@ajpizzuto) presents "Hunting for cosmic neutrino sources from Giga- to Exa-electronvolt with IceCube" in Sterling Hall. physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=…
announcement graphic that has the physics dept logo, says "thesis defense" and the speaker's name, title, time/date, and link for full info. All info not described in detail here is in the tweet text.

ALT announcement graphic that has the physics dept logo, says "thesis defense" and the speaker's name, title, time/date, and link for full info. All info not described in detail here is in the tweet text.

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After applying to jobs for the last four months and preparing for my thesis defense, I’m excited to announce: I am very tired and would like a nap
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Is 125 backup slides too many backup slides?
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