Slide 1Has There Been Progress on the P vs. NP Question? Scott Aaronson (MIT) Slide 2 P vs. NP: I Assume Youve Heard of It Frank Wilczek (Physics Nobel 2004) was recently…

Slide 1Improved Simulation of Stabilizer Circuits Scott Aaronson (UC Berkeley) Joint work with Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 +ZI +IX +XI…

Slide 1Efficient Simulation of Quantum Mechanics Collapses the Polynomial Hierarchy Scott Aaronson Alex Arkhipov MIT (yes, really) Slide 2 In 1994, something big happened…

Slide 1SPEED LIMIT n Quantum Lower Bounds Scott Aaronson (UC Berkeley) August 29, 2002 Slide 2 Andris Ambainis I Cant Believe Its Not Andris TM Slide 3 Many of the deepest…

Slide 1Quantum Computing and Dynamical Quantum Models ( quant-ph/0205059) Scott Aaronson, UC Berkeley QC Seminar May 14, 2002 Slide 2 Talk Outline Why you should worry about…

Slide 1An Invitation to Quantum Complexity Theory The Study of What We Cant Do With Computers We Dont Have Scott Aaronson (MIT) QIP08, New Delhi BQP NP- complete SZK Slide…

Slide 1Scott Aaronson BQP und PH A tale of two strong-willed complexity classes… A 16-year-old quest to find an oracle that separates them… A solution at lastbut only…

Slide 1BQP PSPACE NP P PostBQP Computational Intractability As A Law of Physics Scott Aaronson University of Waterloo Slide 2 Things we never see… Warp drive Perpetuum…

Slide 1The Equivalence of Sampling and Searching Scott Aaronson MIT Slide 2 In complexity theory, we love at least four types of problems Languages / Decision Problems. Decide…

Slide 1Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable Scott Aaronson MIT Slide 2 Things we never see… Warp drive Perpetuum mobile GOLDBACH CONJECTURE: TRUE…