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 <i>et al</i>, [Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation](http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1889). {:r: scope="row"} Date|Speaker|Topic| ---:|:------|:---- {:r}1/23|Robbins|Quantum Computation {:r}1/30|Robbins|Algorithms {:r}2/6 |Paban|Anyons {:r}2/13|Sadun|Quantum Hall {:r}2/27|Freed|Chern-Simons TQFT {:r}3/5 |Distler|Chern-Simons and Anyons {:r}3/12|Orit|Conformal Field Theory {:r}3/19|Spencer|Chern-Simons/CFT {:r} |Kaplunovsky|$p+i p$ Superconductors {:r} |Gordon|Knot Invariants {:r} |Sadun|Adiabatic Theorems {: class="plaintable" style="text-align:center;" summary="Spring Schedule"} ###References### * Das Sarma <i>et al</i>, [Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation](http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1889) * John Preskill's [Quantum Computation lecture notes](http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph219/#lecture) * Zhang, Hansson and Kivelson [Effective Field Theory Model for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect](http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v62/i1/p82_1) * Kitaev, Shen and Vyalyi [Classical and Quantum Computation](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/082182161X/qid=1064887386/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/102-1370066-0776166?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)