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<div>Next week's MIT QIP seminar will take place on Monday November 17
at 16:00 hours in room 4-270, and features:</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+2"><b>Our Recent Attempts to
Understand the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1"><i>by</i> Prof. Eddie Farhi
(<i>MIT Center for Theoretical Physics</i>)</font></div>
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<div align="center"><u>ABSTRACT</u></div>
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<blockquote>The Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm is a promising candidate
for solving some computationally interesting problems, but it has not
been possible to determine the required run time of the algorithm in
these cases. I will report on recent attempts to study the performance
of the algorithm on randomly generated sets of instances.</blockquote>
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