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== Fall 2015 ==

=== Thursday, December 10th 2015 at 4pm (tea and cookies at 3:30pm) ===

==== ''Speaker:'' '''Dr. Justin Dressel, Chapman University''' ====

''Title:'' '''Violating a Hybrid Bell-Leggett-Garg Inequality with Weak Quantum Measurements'''

''Abstract:'' We discuss both the theoretical background and the
experimental violation of a hybrid Bell-Leggett-Garg inequality using
four superconducting Xmon qubits. The algorithm uses sequential weak
measurements of a Bell state in the form of high-fidelity partial
projections, realized by entangling an ancilla qubit to each data
qubit using a controlled-Z two-qubit gate. After calibration of the
ancilla readout, these partial projections indirectly measure qubit
expectation values with a tunable amount of state disturbance. For
sufficiently weak disturbance, the hybrid inequality can be violated
using all data prepared in a single experimental configuration, thus
avoiding both the fair sampling and the disjoint sampling loopholes
that often appear in traditional Bell inequality implementations.

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=== Wednesday, November 4th 2015 at 4pm in (tea and cookies at 3:30pm) ===

==== ''Speaker:'' '''Dr. Joshua Sack, California State University Long Beach''' ====

''Title:'' '''Quantum Logic and Structure'''

''Abstract:'' This talk presents logics for reasoning about properties of
quantum systems and quantum algorithms. One logic, developed by
Birkhoff and von Neumann, is used to reason about testable properties
of a quantum system; the formal setting is the Hilbert lattice (the
lattice of closed subspaces of a Hilbert space). Another logic is the
logic of quantum actions, developed more recently to reason about the
dynamics of a quantum system; the formal setting here is a quantum
dynamic frame, a kind of labelled transition system often used in
computer science to reason about classical programs. This talk also
explains how these settings are essentially the same via a categorical
duality between the lattices and the frames, and how a decidable
probabilistic extension of the logic of quantum actions can be used to
reason about quantum algorithms such as Grover's search algorithm.

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=== Friday, October 23rd 2015 at noon, Beckman Hall room 107 (no tea and cookies this time, we will be taking the speaker to lunch after) ===
==== ''Speaker:'' '''Prof. Glen van Brummelen, Quest University, Canada''' ====
''Title:'' '''The Mercurial Tale of Spherical Trigonometry'''

''Abstract:'' The trigonometry we see in high school is merely a pale
reflection of the creative, exciting subject that students learned
only decades ago. Born of the desire to predict the motions of the
heavenly bodies, the trigonometry of ancient astronomers took place
not on a flat sheet of paper, but on the celestial sphere. This led to
a theory with some of the most beautiful results in all of
mathematics, and applications that led to the birth of major modern
developments like symbolic algebra and logarithms. Until the subject
dropped off radar screens after World War II, it continued to enjoy
vitality through applications in navigation and crystallography. The
mathematical path we now travel through high school and college,
heavily emphasizing calculus, unfortunately has deprived students of
other mathematical gems. In this talk, we shall polish some of the
tarnish off one of the brightest of those jewels.
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=== Friday, October 9th 2015, 2pm (tea and cookies 1:30pm) ===

==== ''Speaker:'' '''George J. Herrmann, Ph.D. student at University of Denver, Website: http://cs.du.edu/~herrmann''' ====

''Title:'' '''A tour of Noncommutative Metric Geometry'''

''Abstract:'' This talk will be an introduction to the area of
Noncommutative Metric Geometry. We will start with discussing
deformation quantization: the history and observations that motivate
our continued interest. We will then shift gears slightly and discuss
some results of Connes and Rieffel in Noncommutative Geometry that
lead to Quantum (Compact) Metric Spaces and quickly introduce a few
nontrivial objects in this category. Then we will end with the work
of Latremoliere in establishing a metric on the category of Quantum
Compact Metric Spaces.

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=== Wednesday, September 30th, 2015, at 3-5pm ===

==== ''Speaker:'' ''' Professor Daniel Alpay, Earl Katz Chair in Algebraic System Theory, Department of Mathematics, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev''' ====

''Title:'' '''Lecture Series by Professor Daniel Alpay, Lectures 5 and 6'''

''Abstract:'' Rational functions are quotient of polynomials, or
meromorphic functions on the Riemann sphere. Here we consider
matrix-valued rational functions. A number of new aspects (a point can
be at the same time a zero and a pole of the function) and new notions
and methods appear (in particular the state space method. A key role
is played by the realization of a matrix-valued rational function $M$,
say analytic at the origin, that is, its representation in the form
$M(z)=D+zC(I-zA)^{-1}B$, where $A,B,C,D$ are matrices of appropriate
sizes.

We will discuss matrix-valued rational functions, and their
connections with topics such as complex analysis, interpolation theory
of analytic functions contractive in the open unit disk (Schur
functions), the theory of linear systems (signal processing) and
matrix theory.

Lecture 5, 3:00pm-4:00pm

1) Wavelet filters.

2) Convex invertible cones.

3) A new kind of realization.

Lecture 6, 4:00pm-5:00pm

1) Several complex variables.

2) The non commutative case.

3) Rational functions on a compact Riemann surface, theta functions.

4) Quaternionic setting.

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=== Tuesday, September 29th, 2015, at 3:30-5:30pm ===

==== ''Speaker:'' ''' Professor Daniel Alpay, Earl Katz Chair in Algebraic System Theory, Department of Mathematics, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev''' ====

''Title:'' '''Lecture Series by Professor Daniel Alpay, Lectures 3 and 4'''

''Abstract:'' Rational functions are quotient of polynomials, or
meromorphic functions on the Riemann sphere. Here we consider
matrix-valued rational functions. A number of new aspects (a point can
be at the same time a zero and a pole of the function) and new notions
and methods appear (in particular the state space method. A key role
is played by the realization of a matrix-valued rational function $M$,
say analytic at the origin, that is, its representation in the form
$M(z)=D+zC(I-zA)^{-1}B$, where $A,B,C,D$ are matrices of appropriate
sizes.

We will discuss matrix-valued rational functions, and their
connections with topics such as complex analysis, interpolation theory
of analytic functions contractive in the open unit disk (Schur
functions), the theory of linear systems (signal processing) and
matrix theory.

Lecture 3, 3:30pm-4:30pm

1) Realization and geometry: $J$-unitary rational functions.

2) Applications to interpolation problems.

3) Inverse scattering problem (Krein and Marchenko).

Lecture 4, 4:30pm-5:30pm

1) First order degree systems.

2) Smith-McMillan local form.

3) Zero-pole structure.

4) Applications to inverse problems.

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=== Monday, September 28th 2015 at 4:00pm (tea and cookies at 3:30pm) ===

==== ''Speaker:'' ''' Prof. Ahmed Sebbar, Bordeaux University, France''' ====

''Title:'' '''Capacities and Jacobi Matrices'''

''Abstract:'' Given a system of intervals of the real line, we
construct a Jacobi matrix (tridiagonal and periodic) whose spectrum is
this given system of intervals. We discuss the underlying conditions
and techniques, as well as possible applications.

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=== Friday, September 25th, 2015, at 1-3pm ===

==== ''Speaker:'' ''' Professor Daniel Alpay, Earl Katz Chair in Algebraic System Theory, Department of Mathematics, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev''' ====

''Title:'' '''Lecture Series by Professor Daniel Alpay, Lectures 1 and 2'''

''Abstract:'' Rational functions are quotient of polynomials, or
meromorphic functions on the Riemann sphere. Here we consider
matrix-valued rational functions. A number of new aspects (a point can
be at the same time a zero and a pole of the function) and new notions
and methods appear (in particular the state space method. A key role
is played by the realization of a matrix-valued rational function $M$,
say analytic at the origin, that is, its representation in the form
$M(z)=D+zC(I-zA)^{-1}B$, where $A,B,C,D$ are matrices of appropriate
sizes.

We will discuss matrix-valued rational functions, and their
connections with topics such as complex analysis, interpolation theory
of analytic functions contractive in the open unit disk (Schur
functions), the theory of linear systems (signal processing) and
matrix theory.

Lecture 1, 1pm-2pm:

1)Preliminaries on rational functions. Notion of realization.

2) Transfer functions. Link with linear systems.

3) Resolvent operators.

4) Proof of the realization theorem: { The backward-shift realization}.

5) Various characterizations of rational functions.

6) The Wiener algebra.

Lecture 2, 2pm-3pm:

1) Main properties of the realization.

2) Another proof of the realization theorem.

3) Minimal realization.

4) Minimal factorizations.

5) Spectral factorizations.

6) Reproducing kernel spaces.

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=== Thursday, September 17th, 2015 at 3pm (tea and cookies at 2:30pm) ===

==== ''Speaker:'' '''Prof. Ahmed Sebbar, Bordeaux University, France''' ====

''Title:'' ''' The Frobenius determinant theorem and applications.'''

''Abstract:'' In this first talk, we will discuss the celebrated determinant
Frobenius theorem and how it arised naturally in the study of a
hierarchy of hypersurfaces, of partial differential operators and
metrics.

The first elements of this hierarchy are the cubic $x^3 + y ^3 + z^3 -
3xyz = 1$ (so called Jonas hexenhut) and the partial differential
operator $\Delta_3 = \frac{\delta^3}{\delta_{x^3}} +
\frac{\delta^3}{\delta_{y^3}} + \frac{\delta^3}{\delta_{z^3}} -3
\frac{\delta^3}{\delta_x \delta_y \delta_z}$, introduced by P.Humbert
in 1929 in another context. We explain why this operator is a good
extension to ${\rm I\!R}^3$ of the Laplacian in two dimensions
$\Delta_2 = \frac{\delta^2}{\delta_{x^2}} +
\frac{\delta^2}{\delta_{y^2}}$ We discuss its links with Spectral
theory, Elliptic functions, number theory and a sort of Finsler
geometry.

This is a part of a large project conducted in collaboration with
Daniele Struppa, Adrian Vajiac and Mihaela Vajiac.

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=== Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 at 4pm (tea and cookies at 3:30pm) ===

==== ''Speaker:'' '''Prof. Yasushi Kondo, Kinki University, Osaka, Japan''' ====

''Title:'' '''Composite Quantum Gates with Aharanov–Anandan phases.'''

''Abstract:'' Unitary operations acting on a quantum system must be
robust against systematic errors in control parameters for reliable
quantum computing. Composite pulse technique in nuclear magnetic
resonance realizes such a robust operation by employing a sequence of
possibly poor-quality pulses. We show that composite pulses that
compensate for a pulse length error in a one-qubit system have a
vanishing dynamical phase and thereby can be seen as geometric quantum
gates with Aharanov-Anandan phases.

== Spring 2015 ==

=== Friday, February 13th, 10:00 a.m. to noon ===

==== ''Speaker:'' '''Professor Daniel Alpay, Earl Katz Chair in Algebraic System Theory, Department of Mathematics, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev''' ====

''Title:'' '''Fock spaces and non commutative stochastic distributions. The free setting. Free (non commutative) stochastic processes.'''

''Abstract:'' We present the non commutative counterpart of the
previous talk. We will review the main definitions of free analysis
required and then present, and build stationary increments non
commutative processes. The values of their derivatives are now
continuous operators from the space of non commutative stochastic test
functions into the space of non commutative stochastic distributions.

More details at:

http://blogs.chapman.edu/scst/2015/02/02/daniel-alpay/

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=== Thursday, February 12th, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ===

==== ''Speaker:'' '''Professor Daniel Alpay, Earl Katz Chair in Algebraic System Theory, Department of Mathematics, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev''' ====

''Title:'' '''Bochner and Bochner-Minlos theorem. Hida’s white noise space and Kondratiev’s spaces of stochastic distributions, Stationary increments stochastic processes. Linear stochastic systems.'''

''Abstract:'' We discuss the Bochner-Minlos theorem and build Hida’s
white noise space. We build stochastic processes in this space with
derivative in the Kondratiev space of stochastic distributions. This
space is an algebra with the Wick product, and its structure of
tallows to define stochastic integrals.

More details at:

http://blogs.chapman.edu/scst/2015/02/02/daniel-alpay/

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=== Tuesday, February 10th, 10:00 a.m. to noon ===

==== ''Speaker:'' '''Professor Daniel Alpay, Earl Katz Chair in Algebraic System Theory, Department of Mathematics, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev''' ====

''Title:'' '''Positive definite functions, Countably normed spaces, their duals and Gelfand triples'''

''Abstract:'' We survey the notion of positive definite functions and
of the associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Examples are
given relevant to the sequel of the talks. We also define nuclear
spaces and Gelfand triples, and give as examples Schwartz functions
and tempered distributions.

More details at:

http://blogs.chapman.edu/scst/2015/02/02/daniel-alpay/

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=== Wednesday, January 14th, 2015 at 3pm (tea and cookies at 2:30pm) ===

==== ''Speaker:'' '''Prof. Richard N. Ball, University of Denver''' ====

''Title:'' '''Pointfree Pointwise Suprema in Unital Archimedean L-Groups (joint work with Anthony W. Hager, Wesleyan University, and Joanne Walters-Wayland, Chapman University)'''

''Abstract:'' When considering the suprema of real-valued functions,
it is often important to know whether this supremum coincides with the
function obtained by taking the supremum of the real values at each
point. It is therefore ironic, if not surprising, that the fundamental
importance of pointwise suprema emerges only when the ideas are placed
in the pointfree context.

For in that context, namely in $\mathcal{R}L$, the archimedean
$\ell$-group of continuous real valued functions on a locale $L$, the
concept of pointfree supremum admits a direct and intuitive
formulation which makes no mention of points. The surprise is that
pointwise suprema can be characterized purely algebraically, without
reference to a representation in some $\mathcal{R}L$. For the
pointwise suprema are precisely those which are context-free, in the
sense of being preserved by every $W$-morphism out of $G$.

(The algebraic setting is the category $W$ of archimedean
lattice-ordered groups (`$\ell$-groups) with designated weak order
unit, with morphisms which preserve the group and lattice operations
and take units to units. This is an appropriate context for this
investigation because every $W$-object can be canonically
represented as a subobject of some $\mathcal{R}L$.)

Completeness properties of $\mathcal{C}X$ with respect to (various
types of) bounded suprema are equivalent to (various types of)
disconnectivity properties of $X$. These are the classical
Nakano-Stone theorems, and their pointfree analogs for $\mathcal{R}L$
are the work of Banaschewski and Hong. We show that every bounded
(countable) subset of $\mathcal{R}^+L$ has a join in $\mathcal{R}L$
iff $L$ is boolean (a $P$-frame). More is true: every existing
bounded (countable) join of an arbitrary $W$-object $G$ is
pointwise iff the Madden frame $\mathcal{M}G$ is boolean (a
$P$-frame).

Perhaps the most important attribute of pointwise suprema is that
density with respect to pointwise convergence detects epicity. We
elaborate. Of central importance to the theory of $W$ is
its smallest full monoreflective subcategory $\beta{}W$,
comprised of the objects having no proper epic extensions. That means
each $W$-object $G$ has a largest epic extension $G \to
\beta G$, and this extension is functorial. It turns out that a
$W$-extension $A \leq B$ is epic iff $A$ is pointwise dense
in $B$. Thus the epireflective hull $\beta G$ of an arbitrary
$W$-object $G$ can be constructed by means of pointwise
Cauchy filters.

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