Fall 2008 Senior seminar on
Classical and quantum compution

Instructor

http://www.math.wm.edu/~ckli

http://www.math.wm.edu/~ckli/mathed

Meeting Time and Place Tuesday/Thursday 12:30 - 1:50 p.m. (Tentative)

Course Description

We discuss the development of classical computers and quantum computers, and the mathematics needed in the development.

References

There are a lot of material on the web. The main references are:

A.Y. Kitaev, A.H. Shen, and M.N. Vyalyi, Classical and Quatntum computation, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, vol. 47. Amer. Math. Soc., 2002. D.C. Marinescu adn G. M Marinescu, Approaching quantum computing, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.

Format

Instructor and students take turn to discuss material following the outline of the reference book.

Assessment

   Participation (1 point for each meeting roughly)        25%
   Leadership of discussion                                25%
             (evaluated by instructor and participants)
   Contributions as participants 
             (evaluated by instructor and leader)          25%
   Summary/report of discussion                            25%
   Extra credits (inspiring ideas/problems/solutions)       5%

Letter Grades

 

     Grades (for homework, quizzes, exams, final grade, etc.):
 
     %: 0 - 60 - 65 - 70 - 75 - 80 - 83 - 87 - 90 - 93 - 100
          F    D    C-   C    C+   B-   B    B+   A-    A

Discussion schedule

Aug. 25. CK Li, General introduction.

Fall 2008 Senior seminar on Classical and quantum compution

Fall 2008 Senior seminar on
Classical and quantum compution