Tuesday seminar
The seminar takes place Tuesdays at 2:15pm in our seminar room (Elings Hall 2250).Spring 2008 schedule
4/1 Srinivas Raghu, Stanford
Topological insulators and triplet superconductivity
4/7 John Preskill, Caltech
Fault-tolerant quantum computation versus realistic noise
4/15 Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia
Tutte chromatic identities and quantum topology
4/22 Claudio Chamon, Boston University
Topological order at finite temperatures
4/23 Marcos Rigol, UC Santa Cruz
Thermalization and its mechanism for generic isolated quantum systems
4/28 Joel Moore, UC Berkeley
Topological insulators in two and three dimensions
5/5 Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Destruction of Neel order in the cuprates by electron and hole doping
5/20 Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
Jack Polynomials, Exclusion Statistics, and new non-Abelian FQHE States
Winter 2008 schedule
1/8 Edward Farhi, MIT
A quantum computer can determine who wins a game faster than a classical computer
1/17 Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT
A classification of symmetric polynomials of infinite variables
- a construction of Abelian and non-Abelian quantum Hall states
1/29 Guifre Vidal, Brisbane
Entanglement Renormalization, Quantum Criticality and Topological Order
2/12 Peter Zoller, IQI Innsbruck
Cold atoms as open quantum systems
2/19 Nick Read, Yale
Non-Abelian adiabatic statistics in conformal blocks
2/20 Bruce Normand, University of Fribourg
Frustration and entanglement in the t2g spin-orbit model on a triangular lattice:
Valence-bond and generalised liquid states
3/11 March Meeting
3/18 Sergei Isakov, ETH Zurich
Valence bond solid phases in the spin-1 XXZ model on the kagome lattice
Previous seminars.