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Combinatorics & Optimization
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext 33038
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Thursday, February 15, 2018 — 1:30 PM EST
Title: Mixing in Discrete-Time Quantum Walks
Speaker: Harmony Zhan Affiliation: University of Waterloo Room: MC 6486Abstract:
Discrete-time quantum walks are building blocks for quantum algorithms. There are some parameters of a quantum walk that affect the performance of a quantum algorithm, such as the (time-averaged) limiting distribution and the mixing time.
Thursday, February 15, 2018 — 3:30 PM EST
Title: An introduction to gammoids
Speaker: Rutger Campbell Affiliation: University of Waterloo Room: MC 5479Abstract:
A gammoid is a matroid that is defined via vertex connectivity in a graph.