MATHQCI 2008 Madrid/Workshop

Speech's Title:
"Topological Quantum Computation"

J.K. Slingerland
School of Theoretical Physics
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
10 Burlington Rd, Dublin 4, Ireland
slingerland@stp.dias.ie

Hi, I am Joost Slingerland. I'm a theoretical physicist working on topological phenomena in condensed matter physics and on their application to topological quantum computation.
As of September 2007, I hold a Schrödinger Fellowship at the School of Theoretical Physics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
In 2006-2007, I was a postdoc at UC Riverside, with Kirill Shtengel, as well as a long term visitor in theoretical physics at the Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech. Before that I worked at Station Q , Microsoft's research station dedicated to topological quantum computation, which was housed in the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB and has now moved to the California Nanosystems Institute, next door to the KITP.

For some introductory material on topological quantum computing you can view my Topological Quantum Media Pages (these include a free poster). There was also a course on TQC and related subjects in Santa Barbara, and some of the course materials are available through the Q course page

my curriculum vitae in Postscript or PDF (not very up to date, sorry)
my publications and other writings
my previous affiliations and related sites
links to old course webpages
(also in case you would like to use some of the materials)