PCTP Quantum Computing Seminar 2007-2008

Co-sponsored by The MITRE Corporation

 

Seminars on Wednesdays unless noted otherwise. Please check main calendar for precise time.

 

Fall

 

 

September 26               Inaugural Symposium (Simon, DiVincenzo, Ioffe, Loss, Petta, Gilbert, Vazirani)

 

October 3                    Matthew Hastings

 

October 10                  Ion Traps (Dick Slusher, Jake Taylor)

 

October 17                  Superconducting Qbits (Koch, DiVincenzo, Guichard, Faoro)

 

October 24                  Nick Read

 

October 31                  Fall break

 

November 6                 (Tuesday) Eun-Ah Kim Signatures of non-abelian statistics in 5/2 double point contact interferometer

 

November 7                 Benoit Doucot

 

November 12               (Monday) Peter Shor

 

November 14               Eddie Farhi  A quantum computer can determine who wins a game faster than a classical computer

 

November 21               Michael Levin

 

November 28

 

December 5                 Barbara Terhal

 

December 14                (Friday) Susan Coppersmith              

 

December 19              

 

Spring

 

February 6                  

 

February 13                 Symposium on Route to Non Abelian Physics (Goldman, Marcus, Willett, Yacoby, Halperin)

 

February 20                 Symposium on Problems in Fault Tolerance (Lidar, Terhal, Gilbert, Gottesman)

 

February 27                

 

March 5                      

 

March 12                     March meeting

 

March 19                     Spring break

 

March 26                    

 

April 2                         

 

April 9                         Chetan Nayak

 

April 16                       John Preskill

 

April 23                       Daniel Gottesman

 

April 30

 

May 7

 

May 14

 

May 21