Postdoc Lunch Time Talks

Date: October 25, 2017

Time: 12:35PM - 12:55PM

Location: BLOC 220

Speaker: Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University

Description: Title: Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computation

In this talk, we will give an overview to some of the basic mathematical ingredients needed to study topological quantum computing and topological phases of matter. We will provide a gentle introduction to the notions of braids and modular categories, focusing on their properties and connections instead of formal definitions. We will also discuss how some questions arising from physics or quantum information can be translated to mathematical problems using these concepts.