The University of Queensland

 

 

Centre for Mathematical Physics

 

 

SEMINAR

 

Speaker:          Peter Jarvis, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania

 

Title:           It takes 3 to tangle: twisted tales from quantum physics, computing and biology

 

2pm, Thursday 1st November, 2007

 

Priestley Building, room 641

 

Abstract:

 

Question: What do Cayley's hyperdeterminant, quantum teleportation, efficient matrix multiplication, and the origin of species have in common? Answer: All can be analysed as different manifestations of the mathematics of “entanglement”.

 

The talk will be a romp through this discordant collection of topics, chasing the common thread for this outrageous claim.  In doing so I will report on some recent work which uses various measures of entanglement as new tools for evolutionary tree reconstruction and parameter recovery in molecular phylogenetics.

 

Joint work with Jeremy Sumner, University of Tasmania and School of IT, Sydney University.

 

All interested are invited to attend.

Enquiries to Katrina Hibberd email: keh@maths.uq.edu.au