David Poulin Death - Dead : David Poulin Obituary : Cause of Death Unknown.

David Poulin Death – Dead : David Poulin Obituary : Cause of Death Unknown.

David Poulin has died, according to the following statements posted on social media on June. 26, 2020.

Andrew Childs on Twitter: “Very sad to hear that David Poulin has passed away. I recall many enjoyable discussions we had as postdocs @Caltech. He made many contributions to quantum error correction, and also did fantastic work on quantum algorithms

Very sad to hear that David Poulin has passed away. I recall many enjoyable discussions we had as postdocs @Caltech. He made many contributions to quantum error correction, and also did fantastic work on quantum algorithms (e.g., https://t.co/Zmk52p7KIp, https://t.co/Nn30xxaYYi).
— Andrew Childs (@andrewmchilds) June 26, 2020

Luboš Motl wrote
David Poulin, a rather young quantum computing researcher, died. He didn’t die of the HUGE AND AMAZING disease that everyone knows but one of those unimportant, marginal, obscure mild diseases whose name has probably been forgotten by most people by now. The name of it is cancer.

Microsoft Quantum wrote
With great sadness, we share our dear colleague David Poulin has passed away. David was an inspiration, a leader, a friend. Our deepest sympathies to his family, friends, and our community. May his spirit and inspiration forever live on. https://msft.it/6019TlRAl

Are weight-4 checks too big for you? Are you bummed that weight-2 gauges of Bacon-Shor don’t yield a threshold with grid size? David Poulin has what you need with a weight-3 gauge operator subsystem surface code. https://t.co/vbTwkC5HE9 #PoulinsGreatestHits
— Kenneth Brown (@kenbrownquantum) June 26, 2020

David Poulin (with Bravyi and Terhal) had one of the most important insights into topological codes: There is a fundamental trade off between rate and distance in any code with commuting check operators and spatially local geometry. #PoulinsGreatestHits https://t.co/1DLAsoLiYI
— Steve Flammia (@S_Flammia) June 26, 2020

I’m devastated to hear about David Poulin. I knew this was coming, but I’m still so sad at the tragedy of him passing way to young. He was a fantastic scientist, a formidable athlete, a great father and family man, and he could even play guitar and sing! I will really miss him. https://t.co/MqHxKhcXSa
— Steve Flammia (@S_Flammia) June 26, 2020

Such sad news that David Poulin is gone. Such a great scientist and wonderful, warm person. Wish I’d had a chance to take him up on one of his many invitations to Sherbrooke. https://t.co/PE03R9nr64
— Howard Barnum (@HowardBarnum) June 26, 2020

David Poulin Death – Dead : David Poulin Obituary : Cause of Death Unknown.