Geometry and String Theory
HomePage (Rev #3)

This is the homepage for the UT Geometry and String Theory Seminar.

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	Paban	Anyons
2/6	Sadun	Quantum Hall
2/20	Freed	Chern-Simons TQFT
2/27	Distler	Chern-Simons and Anyons
3/5	Orit	Conformal Field Theory
3/19	Spencer	Chern-Simons/CFT
	Kaplunovsky	$p+i p$ Superconductors
	Gordon	Knot Invariants
	Sadun	Adiabatic Theorems

References

Das Sarma et al, Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation
John Preskill’s lecture notes
Zhang, Hansson and Kivelson Effective Field Theory Model for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Revision from January 16, 2008 16:32:49 by Jacques Distler