Quantum Gravity Seminar - Fall 2006

John Baez and Derek Wise

This fall the Quantum Gravity Seminar will cover two subjects: As usual, John Baez gave lectures and Derek Wise took beautiful notes which you can read here. If you discover any errors in these notes, please email me, and we'll try to correct them. We'll keep a list of errors that haven't been fixed yet.

These courses are also available via my blog at the n-Category Café, so you can follow along and ask questions there! This is a new experiment, and I hope you try it.

Both these courses are continuing in the Winter of 2007.

There are some LaTeX, encapsulated PostScript and xfig files to download if for some bizarre reason you want them. However, we reserve all rights to this work.

Quantization and Cohomology

In these lectures I spoke about:

My colleague Apoorva Khare produced notes in LaTeX, and Christine Dantas drew pictures to go along with them:

You can also see Derek's hand-written notes, week by week. Each week's notes come with a blog entry where you can ask questions and make comments. There are also homework problems, and answers:

When you're done with these, try the continuation of this seminar in Winter 2007. Also try these related materials:

Classical versus Quantum Computation

In these lectures I spoke about: Some — but not all! — of these lectures are summarized and further developed in this long paper: Here are the notes. Each week's notes comes with a blog entry where you can ask questions and make comments:

Here are some other things to read. It's good to start with these: These go into a bit more depth: For some basic category theory definitions, try this: When you're done with these, try the continuation of this seminar in Winter 2007.


© 2006 John Baez and Derek Wise
baez@math.removethis.ucr.andthis.edu

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