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Geometry and String Theory
Spring 2008

## Spring 2008 Schedule

This semester, we will be working our way through the review paper by Das Sarma et al, Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation.

Date | Speaker | Topic
--- | --- | ---
1/23 | Robbins | Quantum Computation
1/30 | Robbins | Algorithms
2/6 | Paban | Anyons
2/13 | Sadun | Quantum Hall
2/20 | Freed | Chern-Simons TQFT
3/5 | Distler | Chern-Simons and Anyons
3/12 | Orit | Conformal Field Theory
3/19 | Spencer | Chern-Simons/CFT
| Kaplunovsky | p+i p p+i p Superconductors
| Gordon | Knot Invariants
| Sadun | Adiabatic Theorems

### References

- Das Sarma et al, Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation

- John Preskill’s Quantum Computation lecture notes

- Zhang, Hansson and Kivelson Effective Field Theory Model for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

- Kitaev, Shen and Vyalyi Classical and Quantum Computation

Created on August 27, 2008 18:10:41 by Jacques Distler