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	$p+i p$ 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 (70.116.17.8)