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We held a debate on What is art? in Palau Macaya (Barcelona) on June 14th and 15th, 2023 (in Catalan). A curated extract of the debate can be found here and the entire debate here. A monograph was published in La Maleta de Portbou, Nr. 61 (2023).

An invitation to quantum magic squares and the finding that some cannot be dilated to quantum permutation matrices. Some conceptual consequences are explored in this book chapter.

I tried to share some of the magic of quantum theory, of magic squares and of quantum magic squares here. How beautiful is this sculpture (by Subirachs) at the Sagrada Familia? Not to speak of the Sagrada Familia itself... I should translate the article soon.

Blog contribution to Larissa Albantakis' blog Conscious(ness) realist.

Short essay on What is reality? published in La Maleta de Portbou (March 2022). You can read it in English in here.

Notes for a 1.5 hour crash course on "Computational complexity for physicists", including the solution to a seminar where we showed that the ground state energy problem of the Ising model is NP-hard.

TEDx Talk (June 2021) where I tried to explain in 14 minutes the things that I'm trying to understand myself... PS: the talk was recorded on a stage without an audience :)

An article of "Der Standard" about my work and some personal stuff, with the title "Universal systems: Why is everything so complicated?" That's a good title, I think.

An interview for "Scilog" from Alois Pumhösel on the occasion of the START Prize.

Gemma De las Cuevas. Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability Essay contest, organized by FQXi (2020).

An interview for "Inside the Perimeter", the magazine of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. 

A long time ago I won the first prize for a literary creation related with physics, which got published (in Catalan): Ser i res. Gemma de las Cuevas i Millan. Revista de Física 3, 20 (2006).