Monday, May 15, 2006
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Talks will be 40 minutes with 15 minutes at the end of
each talk for questions/discussion.
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Morning Session Chair: Matthew Fisher
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Topological Phases in the Quantum Hall Regime
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9:00am |
Martin Einhorn
(KITP Deputy Director)
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Welcome |
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9:15am |
Nick Read
(Yale Univ.)
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Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States: Properties and Prospects [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:40am |
Paul Fendley
(Univ. Virginia)
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Disentanglement by a Point Contact [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:35am |
Kirill Shtengel
(UC Riverside)
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Probing Non-Abelian Statistics with Quasiparticle Interferometry [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Sankar Das Sarma
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2:00pm |
Vladimir Goldman
(SUNY)
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Fractional Statistics of Laughlin Quasiparticles [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:55pm |
Robert Willett
(Lucent)
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Experiments at 5/2 Filling Factor [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:50pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:20pm |
Michael Stone
(UIUC)
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Braiding and Fusion in px+ipy Superconductors [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:15pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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Talks will be 40 minutes with 15 minutes at the end of
each talk for questions/discussion.
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Morning Session Chair: Leon Balents
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Lattice Models with Topological Phases and Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices
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9:15am |
Mike Levin
(MIT)
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String-net Condensation and Topological Phases in Quantum Spin Systems [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:40am |
Eduardo Fradkin
(UIUC)
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Realizing non-Abelian Statistics in Time Reversal Invariant Systems [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:35am |
Vaughan Jones
(UC Berkeley)
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The Connes Tensor Product for Constrained Quantum Systems [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Birgitta Whaley
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2:00pm |
Mike Freedman
(Microsoft)
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Things Golden: What makes the (double) fibonacci theory unique and
how should we look for it? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:55pm |
Mikhail Lukin
(Harvard)
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"Engineering" Quantum Magnetism and Quantum Hall States in Optical
Lattices[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:50pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:20pm |
Trey Porto
(NIST)
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An Optical Lattice Toolbox: Optical potentials for coherent control of atoms. [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:15pm |
WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION |
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6:30pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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Talks will be 40 minutes with 15 minutes at the end of
each talk for questions/discussion.
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Morning Session Chair: Steve Simon
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Topological Quantum Gates
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9:15am |
Zhenghan Wang
(Microsoft)
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Classification of TQFTs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:40am |
Sergei Bravyi
(IBM)
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Universal Quantum Computation with the nu=5/2 FQHE State[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:35am |
Nick Bonesteel
(Florida State)
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Topological Quantum Compiling [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
BEACH BBQ |
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2:00pm |
FREE AFTERNOON |
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
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Talks will be 40 minutes with 15 minutes at the end of
each talk for questions/discussion.
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Morning Session Chair: Sander Bais
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Quantum Groups
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9:15am |
Joost Slingerland
(Microsoft)
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Quantum Group Symmetry Breaking and Bose Condensation in Nonabelian Hall States [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:40am |
Greg Kuperberg
(UC Davis)
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Planar Feynman-type Diagrams for Invariant Tensors [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:35am |
Matthew Hastings
(LANL)
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The Stability of Topologically Ordered States: Real Time and Quasi-Adiabatic Evolution [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Andreas Ludwig
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Josephson Junction Arrays
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2:00pm |
Lev Ioffe
(Rutgers)
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Topological Protection by Small Josephson Junction Arrays [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:55pm |
Alexei Kitaev
(Caltech)
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Protected Qubits using Josephson Junctions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:50pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:20pm |
John Martinis
(UCSB)
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Decoherence from Two-Level States [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:15pm |
WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION |
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6:30pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Friday, May 19, 2006
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Talks will be 40 minutes with 15 minutes at the end of
each talk for questions/discussion.
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Morning Session Chair: John Preskill
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Relation to Other Approaches
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9:15am |
Daniel Gottesman
(Perimeter)
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Concatenated Quantum Error Correction and the Threshold for Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:10am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:40am |
Sankar Das Sarma
(Maryland)
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Quantum Computation in Semiconductor Nanostructures [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:35am |
Charlie Marcus
(Harvard)
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Spin-based Qubits: Recent Experiments and Integration Scenarios [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: John Preskill
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2:00pm |
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION |
Roadmap for Topological Quantum Computation
Leader, John Preskill along with
N. Bonesteel, S. Das Sarma, M. Freedman, C. Marcus, A. Kitaev [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
CONFERENCE END |
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4:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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