| Please join us for a free event for the scientific community — graduate level and higher — at the Simons Foundation, located on 21st Street in Manhattan. Limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to obtain tickets online now. Search by series or speaker, view the monthly calendar and access video on simonsfoundation.org. |
 |
|
The problem of devising optimally efficient universal gates for quantum computing is one of finding the best generators for rotation groups.
In this lecture, Peter Sarnak will discuss recent developments concerning ‘Golden Gates,’ which are number theoretic generators of U(2). The tools range from groups associated with the platonic solids to modern diophantine problems associated with sums of squares.
Peter Sarnak is currently Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and professor of mathematics at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. He has made major contributions to number theory and to questions in analysis motivated by number theory. His interest in mathematics is wide-ranging, and his research focuses on the theory of zeta functions and automorphic forms, with applications to number theory, combinatorics and mathematical physics.
| The Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium offers accessible seating to patrons with special access needs. Please fill out the special accommodations request when ordering your ticket online. Most events in the auditorium are video recorded by the organizer, and many are photographed. The resulting media may be used by the event organizer(s) on its website(s), or elsewhere. Audio or visual recording and photography by attendees is not permitted without prior approval of the organizer. |
 |
|
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium
Simons Foundation 160 Fifth Avenue at 21st Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10010 |
Inquiries: lectures@simonsfoundation.org Simons Foundation Lectures calendar Directions Follow us on Twitter |