Jiri Vala SFI Research Fellow Department of Mathematical Physics National University of Ireland Maynooth Co. Kildare Ireland Phone.: +353-1-7083553 Fax: +353-1-7083967 Email: jiri.vala@nuim.ie

News

· Two funded PhD positions available – click here to see details

· Here are slides of my tutorial presentation on Topological Quantum Computation at the Symposium on Quantum Technologies at the University of Cambridge

· This April Scientific American published a feature article about topological quantum computation by Graham P. Collins “Computing with Quantum Knots” – check it out!

· I am back in Maynooth from KITP, University of California at Santa Barbara

· The Irish Times highlighted our research in the article by Dick Ahlstrom “Quantum ‘weirdness’ offers huge potential” on 23^rd February, 2006

· Our research is sponsored by the Science Foundation Ireland through the President of Ireland Young Researcher Award

Research interests

· topological phases of condensed matter systems

· topological quantum computation

· theory of decoherence

· quantum error correction and suppression

· fault tolerant quantum computation

Collaborations

· CONQUEST, Marie Curie Research Training Network, European Commision

· ERA Pilot QIST, 6^th Framework Program, European Union

Curriculum Vitae

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