In August, I had the opportunity to visit several research groups across the US. This included Paola Cappellaro and Vladan Vuletić's groups at MIT, Misha Lukin's group at Harvard University (hosted by Johannes Borregaard), Steve Girvin and Shruti Puri's groups at the Yale Quantum Institute (along with Michel Devoret's group), Jeff Thompson's group at Princeton, Victor V. Albert's group at QuICS (University of Maryland), Liang Jiang's group at the University of Chicago (+ Aash Clerk's group), as well as researchers at Caltech from John Preskill's group (Qian Xu) and the AWS Center for Quantum Computing (hosted by Connor Hann). During these visits, I presented our latest work on the stabilization of cat-state manifolds through nonlinear reservoir engineering (read here). I am grateful for the valuable feedback and engaging discussions I had throughout these visits!