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Knots and Applications

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

1 May 2011 - 31 July 2011

Timetable

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