Knots and Applications

In collaboration with INdAM and the Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Milano Bicocca

1 May 2011 - 31 July 2011

Timetable

Weeks: [Mon 2 May - Fri 6 May] [Mon 9 May - Fri 13 May] [Mon 16 May - Thu 19 May] [Wed 25 May - Thu 26 May] [Wed 8 Jun - Thu 9 Jun] [Wed 15 Jun - Thu 16 Jun] [Wed 22 Jun - Thu 23 Jun] [Tue 28 Jun - Wed 29 Jun] [Tue 12 Jul - Wed 13 Jul]

Date	Time	Speaker	Room

Mon 16 May	9:00- 10:00	Glaser, Steffen - Marx, Raimund "Untying Knots by NMR: experimental implementation on a 3-qubit thermal state NMR quantum computer"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 11:00	Glaser, Steffen "Optimal Control of Spin Dynamics in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance"	Aula Dini
	11:00- 11:30	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	11:30- 12:30	Kuperberg, Greg "Denseness and Zariski Denseness of Jones Braid Representations"	Aula Dini
	14:30- 15:30	Lomonaco, Sam "Quantum Knots"	Aula Dini
	15:30- 16:00	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	16:00- 17:00	Kauffman, Louis H. "Quantum Information and the Jones Polynomial"	Aula Dini
	17:00- 18:00	Pachos, Jiannis "Bringing order through disorder: Localisation of errors in topological quantum memories"	Aula Dini

Tue 17 May	9:00- 10:00	Abramsky, Samson "The Topology of Non-Locality and Contextuality"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 11:00	Aravind, Padmanabhan K. "Four Dimensional Geometry and the Kochen-Specker Theorem"	Aula Dini
	11:00- 11:30	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	11:30- 12:30	Myers, John "TBA"	Aula Dini
	14:30- 15:30	Hamma, Alioscia "The Toric-Boson model and the quest for Quantum Memory"	Aula Dini
	15:30- 16:00	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	16:00- 17:00	Tamma, Vincenzo "Factoring integers with Gauss sums and optical interference"	Aula Dini

Wed 18 May	8:30- 9:15	Registration	Aula Dini
	9:20- 9:30	Opening address	Aula Dini
	9:30- 10:15	Akhmet'ev, Petr "Asymptotic Invariants of Links and Applications in MHD"	Aula Dini
	10:20- 11:05	Lefranc, Marc "Stretching, squeezing and linking in chaotic dynamical systems and experiments"	Aula Dini
	11:10- 11:35	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	11:40- 12:25	Kauffman, Louis H. "Vassiliev Invariants and Witten's Integral"	Aula Dini
	15:00- 15:45	Parsley, Jason "Cohomology Reveals When Helicity is a Diffeomorphism Invariant"	Aula Dini
	15:50- 16:20	Shonkwiler, Clayton "Higher Helicities, Geometric Linking Integrals, and Koschorke's Conjecture"	Aula Dini
	16:25- 16:40	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	16:45- 17:30	Hornig, Gunnar "Entanglement and Linking in Divergence-free Vector Fields"	Aula Dini
	17:35- 18:00	Free discussion	Aula Dini

Thu 19 May	9:30- 10:15	Ricca, Renzo L. "From Gauss' derivation of linking number to its role in modern topological dynamics"	Aula Dini
	10:20- 11:05	Spera, Mauro "Differential Geometric Aspects of higher order linking numbers"	Aula Dini
	11:10- 11:35	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	11:40- 12:25	Komendarczyk, Rafal "Higher Order Helicities Via Link Maps"	Aula Dini
	15:00- 15:45	Hsieh, Chun-Chung "High Linking Theory"	Aula Dini
	15:50- 16:20	Maggioni, Francesca "Linking Numbers in Vortex and Magnetic Knots"	Aula Dini
	16:25- 16:40	Coffee break	Aula Dini
	16:45- 17:15	Benvegnù, Alberto "Low-Dimensional Pure Braid Group Representations Via Nilpotent Flat Connections"	Aula Dini
	17:20- 18:00	Final discussion	Aula Dini