Hi all,
for some reason I thought the theory colloquium was today and so was planning for a short meeting so that we could hear about new techniques in attacking the Ising spin model (see http://www.theorycolloquium.phys.ethz.ch/). But that's next week.
So today, in addition to discussing recent papers in the twitter feed, I'll briefly tell you about some things I recently noticed about the degeneracy of quantum codes.
-joe