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About

Hello, Guten Abend, and Bienvenue to the new Thom Group Wiki, apparently evenings are good times to read the Wiki. In this Wiki you can find various pieces of useful information, such as when group meetings are, who is going to bring cake, how to run a particular calculation or perform a certain computer trick, who's using which computer in the group, and so on. You can also see how fun we are as a group by looking at our various photos. For members of the group please feel free to edit the contents of the wiki and fix any errors that you are bound to spot.

Group List and Photos

Here you can find photos of the group in various locations. There is also a helpful Gantt chart illustrating the storied group history. The chart should ideally be updated termly, the current chart maintainer is Luke Wright and you should email him with any complaints.

Summer Interns

Email theory-sec@ch.cam.ac.uk for summer internship opportunities in the group. You are welcome to suggest ideas for a project you would like to do, but ideas are also available for assignment.

Group Expectations

The Group Expectations document is available on overleaf here. The rules outlined must be obeyed at all costs, if not, the consequences are dire.

Events

This section contains information and dates about all regularly or spontaneously scheduled academic events.

Group Calendar

The group calendar is available here. For maximum group efficiency you should add this calendar to your personal calendar. Instructions for how to do this are pending if I can be bothered to write them.

Group Meetings

Group Meetings take place every Thursday at 15.30 in U203. Past Group Meetings are here. The current terms presentations and schedule for cake is given here

Lent 2025

Date	Talk	Cake
22 January	Informal	Andreea
29 January	Lila	Reka
05 February	Informal	Lila
12 February	NONE
19 February	Tamara	Reka
26 February	Informal
05 March	Part III
12 March	Part III
19 March	Informal

For anyone who needs to book a room for group meetings (or otherwise), follow this link here.

Journal Club

Journal Club occurs about twice a term, it usually occurs at 12pm in one of the Cybercafe rooms (U202 or U203) pizza or alternatives are provided. Past Journal Clubs are found here, and the most recent should be given below, although this is currently not true. If anyone wants to update this that would be excellent.

2024-25

Date	Contributor	Paper
30 October 2024	Bence	Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
25 Nov 2024	Jack	Sustained Quantum Coherence and Entanglement in the Avian Compass
22 Jan 2025	Alex	Nonuniversality for crossword puzzle percolation
13 Feb 2025	Charlie	Starquakes in millisecond pulsars and gravitational waves emission

Seminars

• Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe Coffee Meetings
• Quantum Information Seminars

QCQCDG

Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry Discussion Group (QCQCDG) info available here.

Quantum Brainstorm

Informal quantum discussions taking place at 10am on Wednesdays in the supervision area. Notes available here.

Research and Projects

Project Ideas

Based on recent talks and conferences. Contains both project ideas and more general questions that would be nice to answer.

Dissertations

Please upload any missing documents to these folders such that these contain a complete history of every project or work completed in the group.

• Dissertations - Part III Reports, MPhil Theses, First Year Reports, PhD Theses
• Group Meeting Presentations
• Template for L^AT_EX poster

Quantum computing Open Questions

Outstanding questions, along with answers and helpful reading material, can be found here.

Computers

This section contains all information you could ever need about computers and how to use them.

Computing Resources

See this section for what computers the group members are using, what compute clusters are available, and where you can store files.

Computing Setup Guide

Anaconda takes up a lot of space on /home so it's worth running the following.

  mv ~/.conda /scratch/$USER/.conda
  ln -s /scratch/$USER/.conda ~/.conda

This moves your conda environments to the much larger scratch directories and creates a symbolic link back to where it used to be so nothing breaks. Enjoy.

Introduction to basic shell commands

There are a number of tutorials available which document basic operations that are useful. Some highlights include setting up SSH keys, X-forwarding, or how to use vim. Click the hyperlink for the full list.

Useful Software

1. Using QChem
2. Using QCMagic
3. SimpleDMC
4. MRCC
5. GAMESS

Uncategorisable

See Russell's paradox for more details.

Useful Information

1. Guidelines on Code Review
2. How to do things relating to HANDE
3. How to run PySCF or other Python software on Archer
4. How to run QChem on darwin
5. Where to get Travel Money
6. Backed-up Storage
7. How to get IQMol to run a local version of Q-Chem via SSH
8. Slow ubuntu dash
9. Persistent X sessions for remote working
10. Paper submission
11. Getting Started with cerebro
12. Things to do before leaving
13. The Ten Git-mmandments: what NOT to do
14. Mathematical Physics Lectures by Frederic Schuller: Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics and Lectures on Quantum Theory
15. Mathematical Physics Lectures by Carl Bender: Perturbation and Asymptotic Series

Archive

Anything not updated for more than 5 years should be put into this section.