Group meeting (Summer quarter 2007)

Room & time: AP&M 7218, Mondays and Thursdays 2:00pm-3:30pm

Description

This is an informal seminar on applicable mathematics, especially quantum computing, for the group of students, postdocs and faculty who are working on these topics. Potentially interested students, graduate or undergraduate, are welcome to attend.

Schedule (incremental)

23 aug 07 Avinash Jain: "Quantum network coding for general graphs"
20 aug 07 Jon Grice: "Symmetry group of X states"
17 jul 07
friday
David Meyer: "Towards modelling violent events"
13 aug 07 Jason Barnett: "Possible discrete models for the Dirac equation in 2+1 dimensions"
Stephan Hoyer: "Quantum random walk algorithms for 2-SAT"
9 aug 07 Asif Shakeel
6 aug 07 no meeting
2 aug 07 no meeting
31 jul 07
tuesday
Yi-Kai Liu thesis defense: The complexity of the consistency and N-representability problems for quantum states
11:00am, EBU3b room 4217
30 jul 07 Avinash Jain: "Quantum network coding for general graphs"
26 jul 07 no meeting
23 jul 07 no meeting
19 jul 07 Jon Grice: "X states and entanglement"
16 jul 07 David Meyer: "The Dirac equation in d+1 dimensions and the Klein paradox"
12 jul 07 Jason Barnett: "The Dirac equation in 3+1 and 1+1 dimensions"
Stephan Hoyer: "A random walk algorithm for 2-SAT"
9 jul 07 no meeting
5 jul 07 no meeting
2 jul 07 Yi-Kai Liu: "The Consistency Problem for 1-dimensional and stoquastic hamiltonians"
28 jun 07 no meeting
25 jun 07 David Meyer: "Possible research projects"
21 jun 07 Asif Shakeel: "Representation theory of the ax + b group"
18 jun 07 Avinash Jain: "Butterfly diagram and quantum network coding"
David Meyer: "The ax + b Hidden Subgroup Problem"

Bibliography

[1] M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000) [website].

Last modified: 23 aug 07.