NUIM Mathematical Physics Seminars

Public lecture Tuesday 21 September

Knots, World-lines and Quantum Computation by Prof. Steve Simon, Walton Fellow, in the Royal Irish Academy.

Date & Time	Speaker	Institute	Room	Title
July 14 2.15pm	R. F. O'Connell	Louisiana State University	PCT	Friction and fluctuations in quantum mechanics with applications.
June 22 2.00pm	Joshua Schrier	Haverford College	Science 1.10	Sculpting the electronic states of organic and inorganic nanostructures
April 9 2.00pm	Fiona Burnell	Oxford	Science 1.10	The devil is in the dipoles: cold dipolar gases in 1-d optical lattices
Mar 31 10.15am	Eoin O' Colgain	KIAS	Science 1.10	Schrodinger invariant solutions of M-theory
Mar 24 2.00pm	Hugo Touchette	University of London	Hamilton Inst.	Large deviation theory and its applications in statistical mechanics
Mar 12 3.00pm	Simon Hands	Swansea	CS1	Graphene: Relativity in a Pencil Stroke
Mar 10 3.00pm	Vincent Pasquier	Saclay, Paris	CS1	Shannon & entanglement entropies of 1d & 2d critical wavefunctions
Feb 24 10.15am	Brian Dolan	NUIM/DIAS	Science 1.10	Ads-CFT correspondence in condensed matter systems
Dec 18 3.15pm	Mark Howard	UCSB	CS1	Tight Noise Thresholds for Quantum Computation with Perfect Stabilizer Operations
Dec 11 3.00pm	Claudio Castelnovo	Oxford	CS1	Manifestations of monopole physics in spin ice materials
Nov 23 4.00pm	Maria Hermanns	Stockholm University	JH4	Quasielectrons in fractional quantum Hall states
Oct 27 10.00am	Robert Ainsworth	NUIM	Science 1.10	Two dimensional reps. of the braid group
Oct 20 10.00am	Ahmet Bolukbasi	NUIM	Science 1.10	The Bloch-Messiah theorem and the BCS state
Oct 16 3.15pm	Olaf  Smits	DIAS	CS1	Kubo formula and tunneling in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Oct 02 2.00pm	Steve Simon	Oxford/ NUIM	Callan Hall	Topological phases of matter and why you should be interested
Oct 02 10.00am	Glen Burella	NUIM	Science 1.10	Knot invariants and the Jones Polynomial
Sep 10 2.15pm	Gert Aarts	Swansea	PCT	The sign problem at finite density:a complex solution?
Sep 24 3.00pm	Andre Sternbek	Regensburg	Hall A, Arts	The QCD Lambda parameter from Landau-gauge gluon and ghost correlations
Oct 1 3.00pm	Wojciech Celga	Wroclaw	Hall A, Arts	An orthomodularity condition and Quantum Mechanics
Nov 19 3.00pm	Eddy Ardonne	NORDITA	Hall A, Arts	What constitutes a topologycal phase? A case study.
Nov 24 3.00pm	Nicolas Regnault	LPA-ENS	Tutorial room 7	Extracting excitations from a fractional quantum Hall groundstate.
Dec 10 3.00pm	German Sierra	UAM-CSIC	Hall A, Arts	Quantum Entanglement in Many Body Systems.
Dec 17 3.00pm	Ciara Morgan	CQT-NUS	Hall A, Arts	Quantum Information channels and capacity.

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Previous seminars

• 2008/09
• 2007/08
• 2005/06 and 2006/07

Other seminars, conferences and workshops

• Sixteenth Irish Quantum Field Theory Meeting, 15-16 May 2009
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