QSTART 2027 is a two-week summer school introducing graduate students and junior researchers in representation theory to the mathematical foundations and current research directions of quantum computation. Participants will leave with a working command of the language of qubits, circuits, measurement, algorithms, topological phases, error correction, and diagrammatic quantum reasoning. The school is built around structures already familiar to representation theorists — tensor products, string diagrams, braidings, fusion rules, module categories, topological field theories, and quantum groups — and aims to show how existing expertise in representation theory can contribute directly to quantum information science.
Dates and location
Organizing committee
- Aaron Lauda (University of Southern California)
- Alistair Savage (University of Ottawa)
- Zhenghan Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Instructors
- Bob Coecke (Relational Intelligence, Quantum Entertainment Berlin, and the Perimeter Institute)
- Shawn Cui (Purdue University)
- Steven Rayan (Centre for Quantum Topology and Its Applications (quanTA) / University of Saskatchewan)
- Zhenghan Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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