Louis H Kauffman
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Biography
Louis H Kauffman has completed his PhD in 1972 from Princeton University and has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Mathematics Department since 1971. He is a Professor of Mathematics and the author of more than 200 papers and numerous books related to the topology of knots. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is a former President of the American Society for Cybernetics and the recipient of the Warren McCulloch Award and the Norbert Wiener Gold Medal from the American Society for Cybernetics.
Abstract
Abstract : Braiding of Majorana fermions, topological quantum computation and the nature of Clifford algebras