Scott Lawrence

Miscellany

I’m a researcher in nuclear theory in the Theoretical division at Los Alamos National Laboratories. I "maintain" a blog here.

Lecture Notes

• Quantum Error Correction

Selected Talks

• Convexity and Quantum Physics

  Colloqium given at the University of Houston in 2022.

• Quantum Simulation of Gauge Theories

  Thesis talk, delivered at UMD (remotely) in 2020.

• From Qubits to Quarks: Parton Physics on a Quantum Computer

  Talk delivered at MIT, MSU, and BNL, in 2019.

• Manifolds of Glory: Complex Contours for Ameliorating the Sign Problem

  Talk delivered at SIGN'18.

Other Talks

• Quantum Simulation of Gauge Theories (CTQM)

  Variant of thesis talk given at CTQM (remotely) in 2020.

• From Qubits to Quarks: Parton Physics on a Quantum Computer (Short Version)

  Talk delivered at DNP in 2019. Short version of the talk given at MIT, MSU, and BNL.

• Analytic Continuation and Real-Time

  Talk delivered at SIGN'19.

• Quantum Simulation of Gauge Theory

  Seminar at the George Washington University (2019).

• Beyond Thimbles: Sign-Optimized Manifolds for Finite Density

  Talk delivered at Lattice 2018.