# 2024 Group Overview

## Scope

This is a talk-family container for 2024 group-overview presentations. The current real talk version is in `MITLL/`; the top-level folder does not contain a deck or standalone archive page.

## Version Layout

- `MITLL/` contains the MIT Lincoln Laboratory-oriented version of the group overview deck.
- There are no other immediate talk-version folders in the current owned scope.

## Likely Entry Points

- For presentation content, work in `MITLL/presentation.html`.
- `MITLL/HEADER.md` embeds that deck for the archive.
- Use `python3 tools/reveal_text.py 2024-group_overview/MITLL/presentation.html` from the archive root to inspect rough slide text.

## Content Themes

- Full-stack quantum hardware optimization.
- A stack framing: materials, analog control, noisy digital circuits, error correction, and quantum algorithms.
- Analog hardware examples: room-temperature photonic logical qubits, photonic accelerators, microwave device control/networking, spin-mechanics interfaces, and hardware-parameter learning.
- Tooling and simulation: QuantumSavory.jl, QuantumClifford.jl, BPGates.jl, WaveguideQED.jl, and the wider Julia quantum ecosystem.
- Recruiting and collaboration framing for UMass Amherst and MIT-related work.

## Reusable Assets And Patterns

- The version folder carries shared figures also reused by later profile decks, including `cavity_drawing_optical.png`, `opt_nn.png`, `heralded_transmon.png`, `spinmech.png`, `steady_diagram.png`, `savorylogo.png`, `bp_benchmark.png`, and `waveguideqed.gif`.
- `custom.css` defines bibliography counters, flex layouts, figure sizing, and color classes (`bc0`, `bc1`, etc.). Reuse these classes rather than creating a parallel style system.
- Bibliography items use `<ol class="bib">` with `<address>`, `<cite>`, and `<time>` fields.
- Some slides use remote interactive iframes from `areweentangledyet.com`; keep an offline fallback in mind if preparing a version for a no-network venue.

## Editing Guidance

- Treat `2024-group_overview/` as an organizational parent. Add version-specific edits inside the appropriate subfolder.
- Keep top-level instructions current if new venue versions are added.
- Do not edit vendored reveal support under version folders for ordinary content changes.
- If copying slides between versions, update publication status and venue-specific recruiting language instead of blindly preserving old dates or "in review" labels.