The theme of the Lectures will be Information Flow in Physics, Geometry and Logic and Computation. Dr. Abramsky's lectures will describe a broad program he has initiated to model information flow in these and related areas. This includes a high-level reformulation of quantum information and quantum computing using strongly compact closed categories that he and his collaborators have shown captures all of the fundamental components of the theory. The approach supports reasoning about classical and quantum communication in the same model. The development has a close connection to the Temperley-Lieb algebra as well as to knot theory, for which it allows a derivation of Jones' polynomials. Dr. Abramsky's lectures will be accompanied by invited talks by a number of colleagues also working in the area.

List of additional speakers:

• Dr. Howard Barnum, Los Alamos
• Dr. Adam Brandenburger, NYU
• Dr. Rick Blute, Ottawa
• Dr. Bob Coecke, Oxford
• Dr. Vincent Danos, Paris VII and Edinburgh
• Dr. Ross Duncan, Oxford
• Dr. Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul
• Dr. Sam Lomonaco, UMBC
• Dr. Keye Martin, NRL
• Dr. Dusko Pavlovic, Kestrel Institute and Oxford
• Dr. Prakash Panangaden, McGill
• Dr. Phil Scott, Ottawa
• Dr. Alexander Wilce, Susquehana

The schedule will be posted soon.

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Last Updated:February 14, 2008