Presentations

Lecture courses

• Jan-Feb 2003: Introductory lectures on group representation theory for physicists
• October 2002: Majorization and its applications to quantum mechanics Postscript fragments of a monograph. An extended, but more fragmented, version of my 1999 Caltech notes, used as lecture notes at the University of Queensland. Chapter 1-5 and Appendix A are pretty reasonable, as I covered all that material in lectures. Other material is much more spotty. In particular, Chapters 6 and 11 are simply placeholders where I’ve cut-and-paste material from my own papers (the latter with Julia Kempe), to give students an idea of what I hoped to cover later in the course. I never got to that material, however.
• Feb 11-15, 2002: Eight introductory lectures on quantum information science (includes a rough text)
• June, 1999: Majorization and its applications to quantum information theory: [pdf,ps]

Manifesto

• July 1997: What makes quantum computers powerful. Anonymously distributed at the 1997 Torino Conference on quantum computing, by the “Quantum computation collective”. Presented here as a public (dis?-)service.

Seminars

• Jan 2003: Universality and quantum computation (Powerpoint, as Acrobat Distiller repeatedly crashed on the file). Invited presentation by Michael A. Nielsen at the US / Australia Workshop on Solid State and Optical Approaches to Quantuum Information Science, Sydney, January 2003.
• Jul 2002: Quantum information science as an approach to complex quantum systems Invited presentation by Michael A. Nielsen at the Sixth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computation, MIT, July 2002.
• Jan 16, 2002: Universality and quantum computation Invited presentation by Michael A. Nielsen at QIP 2002, the fifth workshop on quantum information processing, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York (USA).
• Jul 19, 2000: Entanglement and distributed quantum computation (postscript) Talk by Michael A. Nielsen at the Benasque Center for Physics