Hi all,
Tomorrow we start off the new semester with the group meeting at a new time: 3pm.
Ernest will give a short presentation about the recent breakthrough result by Ji et al that MIP* = RE. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04383 and possibly also https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4512 and comments for more. The result is nominally a statement about equivalence of two complexity classes, but touches on an amazing number of aspects of quantum information theory and beyond, and I look forward to an interesting discussion about it.
Best,
-joe