Quantum Chess w/ Chris Cantwell

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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USC PhD candidate Chris Cantwell joins Cara to talk about his recent labor of love, Quantum Chess. He tells the story of how the came was conceived and some of the challenges he's faced on his road through academia, including a spinal cord injury in high school that left him with limited mobility.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It is Monday February 22nd and I'm
0:18.6	your host Kara Santa Maria. This week we have a great show. I'll be chatting with USC graduate
0:26.8	student in physics, Chris Cantwell. He also happens to be the inventor, the developer of an epic quantum simulation, and a pretty fun game called quantum chess.
0:41.0	But before we dive into that, I have a few people I want to thank.
0:46.1	Remember guys, TalkNurdy is free to download week after week. And if you want to support the show, you can do it in many ways first of which is by
0:55.6	visiting kara santa Maria.com you can click through to links for patreon to links for
1:02.4	paypal you can shop in the links for PayPal.
1:03.7	You can shop in the Talk Nurdy store.
1:07.6	You can even go to iTunes, rate, and review,
1:09.9	tweet, Facebook, oh my God, tell your friends. A lot of great ways to support the show. This week I want to give a really big shout out to Sean Kraus and Phil T-Bare. Thank you too so much for your really generous support.
1:26.8	I also want to thank the Honorable Husband, Malcolm Wadi II, Gabriel
1:32.2	Felipe Harymalas, Ken Fifer, Brian Holden, and last but, oh my gosh, definitely not least,
1:40.8	Jeffrey Sewell. Thank you guys so much from the bottom of my heart.
1:46.0	All right, guys. Without any further ado, here is the guest of honor this week, Chris Cantwell. Well, Chris, thank you so much for joining me today.
1:55.4	Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Yeah, I think this is going to be fun. So you were recommended to chat with by
2:01.4	Crystal Dilworth, who has previously been on the show for people who
2:04.6	listen to her episode. She's also one of my best friends, so that's helpful. And I think
2:09.7	we're going to talk today about Quantum Chess, Which makes me so excited. So recently Crystal
2:16.2	helped organize an event at Caltech through the Institute for Quantum
2:21.2	Information and Matter. I always want to call it the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter. I always want to call it the Institute for Quantum Information in Math.
2:25.0	But it's matter.
2:27.0	It was like a celebration of Richard Feinman.
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