Past seminars

Past seminars

2020

24 February	Berge Englert	Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore	Evidence in Quantum Data
14 February	Yogi Yamaguchi	Tohoku University	Superadditivity of channel capacity through quantum fields

2019

21 November	John Bartholomew	University of Sydney	Towards rare-earth ion quantum technologies at the single-ion level
6 November	Margareth Reid	Swinburne University Technology	Macroscopic Quantum Non-Locality
31 October	Alexander Pitchford	Aberystwyth University	Live optimisation of quantum states - an example maximising squeezing in an opto-mechanical system
23 October	Marco Tomamichel	UTS	Fault-tolerant quantum advantage with shallow circuits in 3D
2 October	Mathieu L. Juan	IQOQI Innsbruck and Austrian Academy of Science	"Collective effects between superconducting qubits: designing an artificial “Dicke molecule”
26 September	Mathieu L. Juan	IQOQI Innsbruck and Austrian Academy of Science	Quantum Magneto-mechanics
5 September	Koji Maruyama	Osaka City University	Hilbert space structure induced by quantum probes
29 August	Daniel Cohen	University of Sydney	Utilising NV based quantum sensing for velocimetry at the nanoscale
8 August	Jonathan Dowling	Louisiana State University	Practical figures of merit and thresholds for entanglement distribution in large-scale quantum repeater networks
25 June	Pedro Contino Da Silva Costa	MQ	Quantum Cellular Automata and Quantum Walks to Classical and Quantum Simulation and Computation
26 June	Benjamin Brown	University of Sydney	A fault-tolerant non-Clifford gate for the surface code in two dimensions
6 June	Nathan McMahon	The University of Queensland	Holographic Quantum Error Correction Codes
2 May	Wei Wei Zhang	University of Sydney	Realizing Quantum Exotic Properties with Dynamics
16 April	Qi Yu	UNSW	On Hybrid Quantum Filtering and Capability of Quantum Sensors
8 April	Yuan Su	University of Maryland	Polaritonic superfluidity: a nonequilibrium version of Landau's two-fluids superfluid
28 March	Chris Jackson	University of New Mexico	How to Implement a generalized-coherent-state POVM

2018

19 December	Ajit Srivastava	Emory University	Single photons, phonons and spins atomically thin WSe2
29 November	Maxime Richard	CNRS, FR	Polaritonic superfluidity: a nonequilibrium version of Landau's two-fluids superfluid
27 November	Thomas O'Brien	University of Leiden	Quantum phase estimation for noisy, small-scale experiments
23 November	Alastair Stacey	University of Melbourne	Sensing real world systems with quantum defects in diamond at room temperature
22 November	Lin Tian	University of California	Quantum phase transition of strongly-correlated polaritons in superconducting microwave resonators
15 November	Meera Parish	Monash University	Probing correlations with quantum impurities
18 October	Matthew O'Brien	Macquarie University	Magneto-mechanical trapping of micro-diamonds at low pressures
27 September	Troy Lee	UTS	Strategies for quantum races
4 September	Jacob Gade Koefoed	DTU Fotonik in Denmark	Four-wave mixing for single-photon generation and manipulation
16 August	Brian Dolan	Maynooth University	Weighing a black hole: the definition of mass in general relativity
9 August	Jon Dowling	Hearne Institute for Theorical Physics	Schrödinger's Web — Race to Build the Quantum Internet
9 August	Mishkat Bhattacharya	Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T)	Discussion Meeting
2 August	Mishkat Bhattacharya	Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T)	Optical Tweezer Phonon Laser
24 July	James Butler	Consultant on Diamond Materials and Growth	Understanding Diamond CVD:  the ‘Standard Model'
12 July	R. Babbush & N. Rubin	Google & Rigetti Computing	Discussion Meeting
12 July	Nicholas Rubin	Rigetti Computing	Improving hybrid quantum algorithms through n-representability conditions
13 July	Ryan Babbush	Google	Simulating chemistry on realistic quantum computers
31 May	Niccolo Somaschi	Quandela, FR	Accelerating optical quantum technologies with quantum -dot based devices
30 May	Julian Rennert	Waterloo University	Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity and Spinfoams via Turaev-Viro TQFT's and connections with condensed matter theory and topological quantum computation
10 May	Madhav Krishnan Vijayan	University of Technology, Sydney	One-shot assisted concentration of coherence
3 May	Robert Mann	Prof Robert Mann University of Waterloo	Entanglement Harvesting Near Black Holes
26 April 2018	Tan Si Hui	Singapore University of Technology and Design	A quantum code for quantum homomorphic encryption and malleable quantum shared secrets
13 April 2018	Kamil Korzekwa	University of Sydney	Coherifying quantum states and channels
15 March 2018	Magdalena Zych	The University of Queensland	Discussion on: Effects of weak gravitational fields on the quantum dynamics of composite particles.
8 March 2018	Jason Twamley	Macquarie University	Generating non-classical states of motion using spontaneous emission
9 February 2018	Dax Koh	MIT	Hardness of classically simulating conjugated Clifford circuits
13 February 2018	Dr Juan Bermejo-Vega	Free University of Berlin	Prove that your own quantum device cannot be classically stimulated

2017

13 December 2017	Dr Francesco Caravelli	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Spin models and memristors: two different coins, yet the same coin
12 December 2017	Dr Dimitris Angelakis	Centre for Quantum Technologies Singapore and Technical University Crete	Quantum simulations with interacting photons: Spectral signatures of many-body localization in quantum superconducting chips
30 November 2017	Dr Meenu Kumari	Wilfrid Laurier University	Quantum-classical correspondence and its effect on the dynamics of quantum entanglement in kicked hop
27 November 2017	Dr Alexander Solnstev	University of Technology Sydney	Quantum optics on nonlinear chip
24 November 2017	Dr Alexander Wood	University of Melbourne	A new spin on quantum sensing in diamond
7 November 2017	Dr Guang Hao Low	Microsoft	Quantum Signal Processing by Single-Qubit Dynamics
2 November 2017	Dr Ryan Babbush	Google	Towards Scalable Quantum Simulations of Electronic Structure
5 October 2017	Dr Peter Turner	University of Bristol	On the quantum information of quantum interference
28 September 2017	Dr Marco Ornigotti	The University of Rostock	On the separation of the angular momentum of light for optical beams
21 September 2017	Dr Marco Ornigotti	The University of Rostock	Classical and Quantum X Waves with Orbital Angular Momentum
01 June 2017	Dr Tom Space	The University of Queensland	Synthesising Keldysh and Lindblad: Correlated Gain and Loss in Higher Order Perturbation Theory

2016

30 November 2016	Prof Jingbo Wang	The University of Western Australia	Quantum walks, efficient quantum circuit implementation, and potential applications
28 November 2016	Prof Dimitris Angelakis	Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore	Quantum simulations with photons and polaritons: From Mott transitions to topological  pumping with photons
25 November 2016	Dr Valentina Baccetti	Macquarie University	Information recovery problem and role of evaporation
11 November 2016	Dr Artur Scherer	Macquarie University	Linear-systems quantum algorithm and its applications to solving linear and nonlinear differential equations
4 November 2016	Shakib Daryanoosh	Griffith University	Experimental optical phase measurement at the exact Heisenberg limit
28 October 2016	Dr Hendra Nurdin	Australian National University	Perfectly capturing traveling single photons of arbitrary temporal wavepackets with a single tuneable device
21 October 2016	Dr Miguel Ferreira	Macquarie University	Lattice gauge theories and topological quantum codes
14 October 201	Prof Michael Bremner	University of Technology, Sydney	Achieving quantum supremacy via low-depth quantum circuit sampling
7 October 2016	Dr Matthew Broome	University of New South Wales	State of the art in donor based quantum computatio
20 September 2016	Professor Nimrod Moiseyv	Technion,Israel	Quantum Mechanics from a Non-Hermitian Perspective
16 September 2016	A/Prof Gavin Brennen	Macquarie University	Quantum simulations of holographic duality
2 September 2016	Prof Peter Drummond	Swinbourne University of Technology	Quantum Computing 2.0:  the next generation
26 August 2016	Dr Chris Granade	University of Sydney	Rejection and Particle Filtering for Hamiltonian Learning
19 August 2016	Prof Jason Twamley	Macquarie University	Quantum engineering with magnetic fields
12 August 2016	A/Prof Gabriel Molina-Terriza	Macquarie University	Quantum Nanophotonics in QSciTech
9 August 2016	Prof Andrew White	The University of Queensland	Intriguing Chemists and Upsetting Computer Scientists Using Light and Mirrors
15 July 2016	Prof Jon Dowling	Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, Louisiana State University	Spatial Multi-Mode Structure of Atom-Generated Squeezed Light
8 July 2016	Leonardo Novo	University of Lisbon, Portugal	Optimal search in random graphs using quantum walks
1 July 2016	Dr Mattias Johnsson	Macquarie University	A high precision vibration sensor using optical trapping
24 June 2016	Dr Marcus Doherty	Australian National University	Diamond Quantum Science and Technology at ANU
17 June 2016	Prof Geoff Pryde	Griffith University	Photonic entanglement sharing
14 June 2016	Dr Torsten Gaebel	The University of Sydney	Hyperpolarization of nanodiamonds and new biological imaging modalities with nanodiamonds
10 June 2016	Dr Chris Ferrie	The University of Sydney	Green Sampling: using recycled randomness to locate phase transitions
3 June 2016	Dr Keyu Xia	Macquarie University	Cavity QED and Waveguide QED
20 May 2016	Dr Ben Baragiola	Macquarie University	Squeezing of atomic spin waves using quantum nondemolition measurement
29 April 2016	Piotr Wargocki	Macquarie University	FLIM measurements using 512x128 pixels 'Swiss-SPAD' chip
29 April 2016	Dr Mathieu Juan	Macquarie University	Taking advantage of colour centres in nano-diamonds: a novel approach for quantum optomechanics
27 April 2016	Prof Sir Michael Berry	The University of Bristol	Joseph Moyal lecture: Nature's optics and our understanding of light
27 April 2016	Prof Sir Michael Berry	The University of Bristol	Divergent series: from Thomas Bayes's bewilderment to today's resurgence via the rainbow.
19 April 2016	Prof Sir Michael Berry	The University of Bristol	Public Lecture: How quantum physics democratized music: a meditation on physics and technology.
15 April 2016	Prof Andrew Doherty	The University of Sydney	On-Chip Microwave Quantum Hall Circulator
8 April 2016	Dr Luke Helt	Macquarie University	Heralded Single Photon Generation in Complex Waveguides
1 April 2016	Ms Sarah Kaiser	University of Waterloo	Practical Quantum cryptography devices: how to make them and how to break them
23 March 2016	Mr Miguel Ferrera	Universidade de Sao Paulo	Toric Code and Quantum Double models from deformed topological invariants
18 March 2016	Dr Tommaso Demarie	Singapore University	Classically Driven Blind Quantum Computing from Flow Ambiguity
11 March 2016	Dr Carlo Bradac	Macquarie University	Observation of cooperatively-enhanced dipole forces from NV centres in optically trapped nanodiamonds
11 March 2016	Mr Keith Motes	Macquarie University	Preparing Continuous Variable Optical States for Quantum Error Correction by Coupling Atomic Ensembles to Squeezed States of Light
10 March 2016	Dr. Giandomenico Palumbo	University Utrecht	Majorana edge modes and topological superconductors on the Lieb lattice
8 March 2016	Dr Lachlan Rogers	University of Ulm	Colloquium - The Quest for “Perfect” Diamond Qubits
1 March 2016	Prof. Cristiano Ciuiti	University of Paris Diderot, France	Colloquium - Quantum Fluids of Light
23 February 2016	Prof. Cristiano Ciuiti	University of Paris Diderot, France	Recent advances in the theory of strongly correlated photonic systems

2015

18 December 2015	Dr Alexia Auffeves	CNRS, France	Superradiance and lasing
18 December 2015	Prof Ivan Deutsch	University of New Mexico	Quantum Control and Measurement of Atomic Spins
17 December 2015	Matthias Brandl	Institute for Experimental Physics,Innsbruck, Austria	Towards scalable quantum computing with ions in a cryogenic environment
16 December 2015	Dr Maxime Richard	CNRS, France	Digression on the notion of effective mass for photons stored in a planar optical cavity
4 December 2015	Dr Alexander Glätzle	IQOQI Innsbruck, Austria	Designing Quantum Spin Models with Laser-Dressed Rydberg Atoms
4 December 2015	Dr Maxime Richard	CNRS, France	What you always wanted to know about polaritons but never dared to ask
4 December 2015	Christopher Wood	Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada	Initialization and Characterization Open Quantum Systems
3 December 2015	Dr Alexia Auffeves	CNRS, France	Reversible work extraction in a hybrid opto-mechanical system
3 December 2015	A/Prof Thomas Busch	Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology, Japan	1D Quantum Gases: Weak and/or Strongly Correlated II
2 December 2015	A/Prof Thomas Busch	Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology, Japan	1D Quantum Gases: Weak and/or Strongly Correlated II
27 November 2015	Dr Felix Pollock	Monash University	A fluctuation relation for heat in open quantum processes
20 November 2015	A/Prof Thomas Busch	Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology, Japan	Controlling Quantum Systems with Spatial Adiabatic Passage
28th October 2015	Prof Jon Dowling	Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, Louisiana State University	Inefficiency of classically simulating linear optical quantum computing with Fock-state inputs
23rd October 2015	Dr Dave Wecker	Microsoft, USA	LIQUi|> and SoLi|>: Simulation and Compilation of Quantum Algorithms
20th October 2015	Prof Fedor Jelezko	Institute of Quantum Optics, Ulm University, Germany	Diamond based quantum technologies
16th October 2015	Dr Ben Baragiola	Macquarie University	Open quantum systems with propagating Fock states
5th September 201	Dr Peter Rohde	University of Technology, Sydney	Resource efficient linear optics quantum computing using fibre-loop architectures
28th August 2015	Prof Kris Helmerson	Monash University	Single photon vortex knots
21st August 2015	Dr Matthew Sellars	Australian National University	Rare-earth doped crystals and application to information processing
14th August 2015	Prof Stephen Bartlett	University of Sydney	Estimating outcome probabilities of quantum circuits using quasiprobabilities
7th August 2015	Dr Andrey Sukhorukov	Australian National University	On-chip quantum photonics with coupled nonlinear waveguides
19th June 2015	Dr Matthew Woolley	UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy	Photon-assisted tunnelling with nonclassical light
12th June 2015	Dr Alberto Peruzzo	RMIT	Experimental linear optical demonstrations of novel quantum state tomography, certification and transfer
29th May 2015	Dr Runyao Duan	Quantum Computation Laboratory, University of Technology, Sydney	On zero-error communication via quantum channels in the presence of noiseless feedback
22nd May 2015	Prof Tim Duty	University of New South Wales	Charge transport and density waves in 1D Josephson-junction chains
22nd May 2015	Nathan McMahon	University of Queensland	WZW Conformal Field Theory models: a brief introduction
15th May 2015	Dr Chunle Xiong	University of Sydney	CMOS compatible photonic chip based quantum light sources
12th May 2015	Prof David Reilly	University of Sydney	Quantum Devices to Quantum Machines: Engineering the Scale-up of Quantum Technology
8th May 2015	Dr Steve Flammia	University of Sydney	Sparse Quantum Codes from Quantum Circuits
24th April 2015	A/Prof Michael Bremner	University of Technology Sydney	Constructing classically difficult quantum simulation algorithms
9th April 2015	Prof Andrew Greentree & Dr Jan Jeske	RMIT	Laser Threshold Magnetometry
17 March 2015	Dr Robert Pfeifer	MQ	DMRG for anyonic systems
10 March 2015	Dr Nicholas Menicucci	University of Sydney	Gigantic Quantum Computers Made of Laser Light
9 March 2015	Dr Sofyan Iblisdir	University of Barcelona	Simulated Annealing for tensor network states
3 March 2015	A/Prof Marco Liscidini	University of Pavia	A Classical Boy in a Quantum World
27 January 2015	Dr Huy Nguyen Le	University of Singapore	Atom -photon interactions in 1D waveguides
20 January 2015	Dr Marco Piani	University of Strathclyde	An operational approach to the study of quantum correlations exploiting semidefinite programming
20 January 2015	Prof Oriol Romero-Isart	Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information	Superconducting Vortex Lattices for Ultracold Atoms

2014

18th November 2014	Dr Kavan Modi	Monash University	Measuring heat in a quantum process
18th November 2014	Dr Dan Padilha	Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science, UNSW	Adiabatic Quantum Computation on a D-Wave Two
18th November 2014	Dr Mattias Johnsson	Macquarie University	Gravimetry using fat cats in a quantum magnetomechanical system
11 November 2014	A/Prof Gavin Brennen	Macquarie University	Topology and the quantum world
21st October 2014	Prof Joseph Fitzsimons	Singapore University of Technology and Design	Verifiable and blind quantum computation
7th October 2014	Dr Nan Zhao	Beijing Computational Science Research Centre	Ultra-sensitive measurement and quantum metrology under dynamical decoupling control
15th September 2014	A/Prof Gavin Brennen	Macquarie University	Topological Anonymous Broadcasting (aka Donus vs. the NSA)
9th September 2014	Prof Richard Jozsa	DAMTP, University of Cambridge
27th August 2014	Hossein Dinani	Macquarie University	Loss-resistant unambiguous phase measurement
12th August 2014	Keith Motes	Macquarie University	Scalable boson-sampling with time-bin encoding using a loop-based architecture
3rd June 2014	A/Prof Andrea Morello	UNSW	Quantum information processing with single atoms in silicon
27th May 2014	Dr Lawrence Lee	Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute	Artificial synthesis of complex biological nanomachines with DNA origami nanostructure scaffolds
27th May 2014	Dr Aitzol Garcia-Etxarri	Standford University	Parity-Time symmetric optical antennas: A route towards the active control of nano-photonic systems
14th May 2014	Dr. Yi-Chan Lee	UTS	Local PT Symmetry Violates the No-Signaling Principle
6th May 2014	Sir Peter Knight		Colloquium: “Light Wave-Particle duality: From Newton to Quantum Optics”
3rd April 2014	Dr Pascale Senellart	CNRS, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, France	Cavity quantum electrodynamics with semiconductor quantum dots
1st April 2014	Prof Stephen Bartlett	University of Sydney	Control Engineering in Quantum Coherent Systems
6th March 2014	Christopher Ward		Cavity cooling of an ensemble spin system
11th February 2014	Prof Jeremy Baumberg	Cambridge	Quantum Plasmonics
13th January 2014	Dr Paul Hess	Harvard	Spectroscopy of ThO molecules searching for an electric dipole moment of the electron

2013

17th December 2013	Dr Andreas Jechow	Photonics Department, University of Potsdam	Photonics in Potsdam and enhanced two-photon excited fluorescence by photon bunching
28th November 2013	Prof Barry Sanders	University of Calgary	Coherent and cooperative quantum optics in one dimension
21st November 2013	Prof Du	University of Science and Technology of China	Quantum Coherence Spin Systems
15th November 2013	Xavier Zambrano Puyalto	Macquarie University	Probing the nano-world with the symmetries of light
15th November 2013	Prof Jietai Jing	East China Normal University	Informal talk on nonlinear experimental interferometry
14th November 2013	Dr Alberto Amo	Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France	Polariton condensation and superfluidity in microstructures
13th November 2013	Dr Alberto Amo	Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France	Polaritons in confined geometries: from Josephson oscillations and spin-orbit coupling to polariton honeycomb lattices
7th November 2013	Dr Alberto Amo	Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France	Propagation and quantum hydrodynamics of polariton gases
6th November 2013	Dr Alberto Amo	Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France	Introduction to polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities
17th September 2013	Prof Karol Zyckowski	Institute of Physics, University of Jagiellonski	Playing with small matrices: On numerical range of an operator
16th September 2013	Dr Michal Mikuda	Dept Optics, Palacky University, Czech Republic	Experimental quantum optics in Olomouc
12th September 2013	Dr Dominic Berry	Macquarie University	Schrodinger’s Computer: Introductory Quantum Algorithms – Lecture 3 “Quantum Simulation Algorithms”
11th September 2013	Prof Karol Zyckowski	Institute of Physics, University of Jagiellonski	Quantifying Quantum Entanglement
10th September 2013	Dr Michal Hajdusek	University of Tokyo	Multipartite entanglement quantification in graph states
9th September 2013	Dr Dominic Berry	Macquarie University	Schrodinger’s Computer: Introductory Quantum Algorithms – Lecture 2 “Techniques for Quantum Algorithms”
4th September 2013	Dr Dominic Berry	Macquarie University	Schrodinger’s Computer: Introductory Quantum Algorithms – Lecture 1 “Elementary Quantum Algorithms”
15th August 2013	Prof Enrique Solano	University of the Basque Country, Spain	COLLOQUIUM: “Quantum simulations of possible and impossible physics”
13th August 2013	Prof Enrique Solano	University of the Basque Country, Spain	Physics of circuit QED as a quantum technology for quantum information
1st August 2013	Prof Enrique Solano	University of the Basque Country, Spain	Physics of trapped ions as a quantum technology for quantum information
1st August 2013	Dr Lucas Lamata	University of the Basque Country, Spain	Quantum Simulations of Fermions and Bosons with Trapped Ions
1st August 2013	Dr Jorge Casanova	University of the Basque Country, Spain	Embedding Quantum Simulators
31 July 2013	Prof Jonathon Dowling	Louisiana State University, USA	COLLOQUIUM: “Quantum Technology: The second quantum revolution.”
25th July 2013	Prof Enrique Solano	University of the Basque Country, Spain	Trapped ions and Quantum Simulations
18th July 2013	Prof Jonathon Dowling	Louisiana State University, USA	Schroedinger’s Rainbow
13th June 2013	Dr Guilherme Tosi	Quantum Nanosystems, UNSW	Semiconductor quantum fluids made to interact
4th June 2013	Dr Hendra I. Nurdin	School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, UNSW	Continuous-time quantum filtering and feedback control: from classical to quantum
30th May 2013	Dr Luke Helt	Macquarie University	Broadband nature of optical Bell states on a chip
27th May & 28th May 2013	Dr Sundance Bilson-Thompson	The University of Adelaide	Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity
24th May 2013	Dr Rob Pfeifer	Perimeter Institute, Canada	Anyons on surfaces of higher genus
23rd May 2013	Dr Matt Woolley	School of Engineering & Information Technology, UNSW Canberra (ADFA)	Measurement and interference with microwave photons
21st May 2013	Prof Sumanthi Rao	Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India	Integer/Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
16th May 2013	A/Prof Mike Steel	Macquarie University	Recent CUDOS research in integrated quantum photonics
9th May 2013	Dr Thomas Volz	Macquarie University	Ultrafast single-photon non-linearities on a semiconductor chip
2nd May 2013	Prof Ashoke Sen	Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India	Informal Seminar
2nd May 2013	Prof Sumanthi Rao	Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India	Transport through 2D surface states of 3D topological insulators
24th April 2013	Dr Josh Combes	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico	N-photon wavepackets interacting with an arbitrary quantum systems
11 April 2013	Babatunde Ayeni	Macquarie University	Kosterlitz- Thouless(KT) Transition in a Quasi-2D Bose Gases: a Quantum Monte Carlo Study
11 April 2013	Keith Motes	Macquarie University	Phase estimation with two-mode squeezed vacuum and parity detection: Bayesian analysis
4 April 2013	Dr Michael Vanner	EQuS, The University of Queensland	Measurement-based quantum optomechanics
21 March 2013	Dr Arkady Federov	EQuS, The University of Queensland	Realization of Deterministic Quantum Teleportation with Solid State Qubits

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