The purpose of the workshop is to discuss in a small setting the recent advances in our understanding of quantum computation through algebraic methods. Topics include

• Quantum algorithms

• Generalized stabilizer formalisms

• Symmetry-protected topological order and group cohomology

• Discrete Wigner functions and contextuality of quantum mechanics

• Quantum reference frames

• Quantum error-correction

• Models of quantum computation

• Juan Bermejo-Vega, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany

• Lorenzo Catani, University College London, London, UK

• Nicolas Delfosse, UC Riverside + Caltech, CA, USA

• Kohei Kishida, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

• Iman Marvian, MIT, USA

• Akimasa Miyake, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

• Cihan Okay, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

• Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup, University of Innsbruck, Austria

• Robert Raussendorf, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

• David Stephen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

• Emily Tyhurst, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

• Dongsheng Wang, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

• Tzu-Chieh Wei, University of Stony Brook, Stony Brook, USA

Dates and practical information

• We have room for about 3 contributed talks

• Deadline for abstract submission: May 1, 2016

• Notification for successful submissions: May 7, 2016

• There is no conference fee and no travel support for contributed talks; participation requires an accepted presentation

Scientific organizers

Juan Bermejo-Vega (FU Berlin, Germany),
Robert Raussendorf (UBC, Canada),
Tzu-Chieh Wei (Stony Brook, USA)