AMS :: Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, October 7, 2016 14:15:51

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday September 24, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Phases of Matter and Quantum Computation, I
Room 106, Bannister Hall
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Carlos Ortiz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory carlos.ortizmarrero@pnnl.gov
Julia Plavnik, Texas A University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Braided graded fusion categories.
  Dmitri Nikshych*, University of New Hampshire
  (1121-18-196)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Brauer-Picard group of a finite symmetric tensor category.
  Costel G Bontea*, University of New Hampshire
  Dmitri Nikshych, University of New Hampshire
  (1121-16-270)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Fermionic 6$j$-symbols in superfusion categories.
  Robert Usher*, University of Oregon
  (1121-18-250)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Higher Categories and Topological Quantum Field Theories.
  Shawn Xingshan Cui*, Stanford University
  (1121-57-135)

Saturday September 24, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Phases of Matter and Quantum Computation, II
Room 106, Bannister Hall
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Carlos Ortiz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory carlos.ortizmarrero@pnnl.gov
Julia Plavnik, Texas A University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hamiltonian realization of (3+1)-TQFTs.
  Zhenghan Wang*, Microsoft Research Station Q and Dept. of Math., UCSB.
  (1121-81-30)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Generic Local Hamiltonians are Gapless.
  Ramis Movassagh*, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  (1121-81-114)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Arithmetic aspects of topological phases.
  Jon Yard*, Microsoft Station Q /
  (1121-81-252)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Topological quantum computation with symmetry defects.
  Colleen Delaney*, University of California Santa Barbara
  (1121-81-227)

Sunday September 25, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Phases of Matter and Quantum Computation, III
Room 106, Bannister Hall
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Carlos Ortiz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory carlos.ortizmarrero@pnnl.gov
Julia Plavnik, Texas A University
- 8:00 a.m.
  The role of quantum dimension in quantum information.
  Eric C Rowell*, Texas A University
  (1121-81-187)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Two families of weighted complex projective 2-designs.
  John I Haas*, Columbia
  (1121-81-146)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quantum channels from quantum group invariants.
  Michael P Brannan*, Texas A University
  Benoit Collins, Kyoto University
  (1121-46-251)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Open quantum subgroups of locally compact quantum groups.
  Mehrdad Kalantar*, University of Houston
  (1121-46-155)

Sunday September 25, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Phases of Matter and Quantum Computation, IV
Room 106, Bannister Hall
Organizers:
Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Carlos Ortiz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory carlos.ortizmarrero@pnnl.gov
Julia Plavnik, Texas A University
- 2:00 p.m.
  Quantum Codes and Fault-Tolerant Quantum Operations over Finite Frobenius Rings.
  Andreas Klappenecker*, Texas A University
  (1121-94-163)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Frobenius Algebras Derived from the Kauffman Bracket Skein Algebra.
  Nelson Abdiel Colon*, University of Iowa
  Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
  (1121-55-271)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A TQC-inspired proof of a classical complexity result for 3-manifolds.
  Eric G. Samperton*, UC Davis
  Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis
  (1121-57-20)