AMS Short Course

Quantum Computation & Quantum Information
Washington, DC

January 3-4, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, January 3, 2009, 8:00am -5:00pm

 

 8:00am -  5:00pm          Registration

 

 9:00am - 10:15am        Speaker: Samuel J. Lomonaco, UMBC

                                       Title:     A Rosetta Stone for Quantum

                                                     Computing

                                                                                    Slides from talk

 

10:15am - 10:45am        Coffee Break

 

10:45am – 12:00pm        Speaker: Peter W. Shor, MIT

                                        Title:      Quantum Algorithms

                                                                                    Slides from talk

 

 

12:00pm - 2:00pm            LUNCH

 

 2:00pm -  3:15pm            Speaker: Patrick Hayden, McGill Univ.

                 Title:      Concentration of Measure Effects
                                in Quantum Information

                                                                                    Slides from talk

 

 3:15pm -  3:45pm             Coffee Break

 

 3:45pm -  5:00pm             Speaker: Daniel Gottesman,Perimeter Inst

                                          Title:      Quantum Error Correction and
                                                         Fault Tolerance

                                                                                    Slides from talk

 

5:30pm                               Reception

 

 

 


Sunday, January 4, 2009, 9:00am – 5:00pm

 

9:00am - 10:15am                   Speaker: Howard E. Brandt, USARL

                                                Title:      Riemannian Geometry of
                                                               Quantum Computation

 

10:15am - 10:45am                 Coffee Break

 

10:45am – 12:00pm                Speaker: Louis H. Kauffman, UIC

                Title:      Topology and Quantum
                               Computing

                                                                                    Slides from talk

 

12:00pm - 2:00pm                   LUNCH

 

 2:00pm - 3:15pm                    Speaker: Samuel J Lomonaco, UMBC

                                                Title:      Quantum Knots and Mosaics

                                                                                    Slides from talk

 

 3:15pm - 3:45pm                    Coffee Break

 

 3:45pm - 5:00pm                    Speaker: Panel Discussion.

                                    Title:      The Grand Mathematical

                                                   Challenge for Quantum

                                                   Computation and Quantum

                                                   Information