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