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

• Dan Browne, University College London, London, UK

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

• Vadym Kliuchnikov, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA

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

• Sam Roberts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

• Joel Wallman, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

• Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada

Dates and practical information

• We have room for about 5 to 7 contributed talks

• Deadline for abstract submission: May 1, 2016

• Notification for successful submissions: May 7, 2016

• Deadline for early bird registration: May 10, 2016

• Registration fees (early):
  non-UBC student: 160 CAD
  non-UBC researcher: 280 CAD

• Registration fees (late):
  non-UBC student: 260 CAD
  non-UBC researcher: 380 CAD

• registration is free for UBC members

Program committee:
Dan Browne, University College London, UK
Dongsheng Wang, UBC Vancouver
Robert Raussendorf, UBC Vancouver