Topological Quantum Computing - IPAM

Topological Quantum Computing

February 26 - March 2, 2007

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, February 26, 2007

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:15-09:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:30-10:30
Nicholas Read (Yale University)
Title not available
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Chetan Nayak (Microsoft Station Q)
Point Contacts and Qubits in the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State
14:30-15:30
Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute of Science)
How do you recognize the non-abelian quantum Hall effect when you see it
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Kirill Shtengel (University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside))
Non-Abelian Quasiparticle Interferometry

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:30
Paul Fendley (University of Virginia)
Finding Fibonacci
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Matthew Fisher (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
The 5/2 edge

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
John Preskill (California Institute of Technology)
Robust quantum computation
14:30-15:30
Nicholas Bonesteel (Florida State University)
Finding Braids for Fibonacci Anyons and Beyond
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Steve Simon (Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)
Theoretical Search for Novel Quantum Hall States

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:30
Alexei Kitaev (California Institute of Technology)
Quantum devices based on superconducting inductors
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Almut Beige (University of Leeds)
Quantum computing using measurements and dissipation

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Greg Kuperberg (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Anyonic quantum computation from the Turaev-Viro invariant
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Kareljan Schoutens (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Hall States
16:30-17:00
Coffee Break at LaKretz Hall
17:00-18:00
Public Lecture by Michael Freedman at LaKretz Hall: "How Topology Will Save Moore's Law: Quantum Computation via Exotic States of Matter"
18:15-19:45
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:30
Louis Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago)
q-deformed Spin Networks and Anyonic Topological Quantum Computing
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Kevin Walker (Microsoft Station Q)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Research)
Galois field theory of anyons
14:30-15:30
Eduardo Fradkin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Entanglement Entropy at two dimensional quantum critical points: can you hear the shape of Schrödinger's cat?
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Michael Levin (Harvard University)
Real space renormalization group and the emergence of topological order

Friday, March 2, 2007

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:30
Yong-Shi Wu (University of Utah)
Braid Group, Gauge Invariance and Topological Orders
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Dimer model implementations of lattice quantum loop gases

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Peter Zoller (Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck)
Designing Hubbard and spin Hamiltonian with atoms and molecules
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
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