Bilkent University Quantum Computing Seminar

quantum computing and information Mathematics quantum physics

Audience:	Advanced learners
Seminar series time:	Friday 11:00-12:30 in your time zone, UTC
Organizers:	Selman Ipek, Walker Stern
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A weekly seminar on Friday afternoons at 2:30 pm (GMT+3) held via Zoom that are typically an hour and a half in length, including questions. In previous semesters we emphasized the foundations of measurement-based quantum computation (Fall 2022) and classical simulation of quantum circuits (Spring 2023). This semester (Spring 2024) we will explore categorical structures in quantum mechanics and quantum information theory.

The schedule of the seminar series, including the abstracts, titles, and corresponding references are here and at: www.cihanokay.com/seminars

Depending on speaker preference seminar talks will be available on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCLrmyGpqxyeVpTcA1b5HcMw

NOTE: Talks may be held more/less frequently depending on availability of speakers and may also change time of day to accommodate speakers in other time zones.

Upcoming talks

Past talks

Your time			Speaker	Title
Fri	May 17	11:00	Walker H. Stern	Higher quantum theory and 2-Hilbert spaces
Fri	May 10	11:00	Redi Haderi	Bicategories and monoidal bicategories
Fri	May 03	11:00	Selman Ipek	Complete positivity
Fri	Apr 26	11:00	Selman Ipek	Applications of Categorical Quantum Mechanics to quantum computation: ZX calculus
Fri	Apr 19	11:00	Selman Ipek	Categorical treatment of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm
Fri	Apr 05	11:00	Victor Torres Castillo	Frobenius algebras and complementarity
Fri	Mar 29	11:00	Redi Haderi	No-cloning theorem in categorical quantum mechanics
Fri	Mar 22	11:00	Selman Ipek	Categorical Quantum Mechanics
Fri	Mar 15	11:00	Walker Stern	Symmetric Monoidal Categories (III)
Fri	Mar 01	11:00	Redi Haderi	Symmetric Monoidal Categories (II)
Fri	Feb 23	11:00	Walker Stern	Symmetric Monoidal Categories (I)
Fri	Feb 16	11:00	Selman Ipek	Motivating Categorical Quantum Mechanics
Fri	Feb 09	11:00	Walker Stern	Introduction to Category Theory
Fri	May 26	11:30	Hakop Pashayan	Classical simulation of quantum circuits
Mon	May 22	10:30	Selman Ipek	Quasiprobability methods in classical simulation (I)
Fri	May 12	11:30	James Seddon	Stabilizer simulation methods for mixed magic states and noisy channels
Fri	Apr 14	11:30	Selman Ipek	Trading classical and quantum resources
Fri	Apr 07	11:30	Mark Howard	Topics in Stabilizer Quantum Computation
Fri	Mar 31	11:30	Selman Ipek	Quantum universality and magic state distillation
Fri	Mar 24	11:30	Selman Ipek	Universal Quantum Computation with ideal Clifford gates and noisy ancillas
Fri	Mar 17	11:30	Selman Ipek	Improved Simulation of Stabilizer Circuits
Fri	Mar 03	11:30	Selman Ipek	Introduction to the Stabilizer Formalism
Fri	Feb 17	11:30	Selman Ipek	Putting paradoxes to work: contextuality in measurement-based quantum computation
Fri	Feb 10	11:30	Igor Sikora	Cohomological framework for contextual quantum computation
Fri	Feb 03	11:30	Ho Yiu Chung	Contextuality as a resource for measurement-based quantum computation beyond qubits
Fri	Dec 30	11:30	Ho Yiu Chung	Contextuality as a resource for measurement-based quantum computation beyond qubits
Fri	Dec 23	11:30	Selman Ipek	Generalized Bell Inequality Experiments and Computation
Fri	Dec 16	11:30	Selman Ipek	Nonclassical correlations as a resource for computation
Fri	Dec 09	11:30	Mehmet Kırtışoğlu	Simplicial quantum contextuality
Fri	Dec 02	11:30	Aziz Kharoof	The Sheaf-Theoretic Structure of Definite Causality
Fri	Nov 11	11:30	Selman Ipek	Nonlocal correlations as an information-theoretic resource (2005)
Fri	Nov 04	11:30	Selman Ipek	Introduction to Measurement-Based Quantum Computing
Mon	Sep 19	13:00	Amy Searle	Classifying the Noncontextual Measurement Spaces via the Sheaf Approach
Mon	Sep 12	13:00	Arne Heimendahl	Wigner’s theorem of stabilizer states
Mon	Aug 08	13:00	Nicola Pinzani	The Topology and Geometry of Causality
Mon	Aug 01	13:00	Martti Karvonen	Neither Contextuality nor Nonlocality Admits Catalysts
Mon	Jul 04	13:00	Sivert Aasnæss	Contextuality as a resource for quantum circuits
Mon	Jun 20	13:00	Michael Zurel	Polytope theory and classical simulation of quantum computation with magic states
Mon	Jun 06	09:00	Mark Webster	The XP Stabiliser Formalism: a Generalisation of the Pauli Stabiliser Formalism with Arbitrary Phases

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