As 2015 winds down, I thought I’d continue my tradition of using this blog to showcase some awesome student projects from my graduate class. (For the previous project showcases from Quantum Complexity Theory, see here, here, and here. Also see here for the showcase from Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science.)

This fall, I taught 6.S899, a one-time “Seminar on Physics and Computation” that focused on BosonSampling, complexity and quantum gravity, and universality of physical systems. There were also lots of guest lectures and student presentations. Unfortunately, we didn’t do any notes or recordings.

Fortunately, though, the students did do projects, which were literature reviews some of which ventured into original research, and all nine have agreed to share their project reports here! So enjoy, thanks so much to the students for making it a great class, and happy holidays.

Update (Dec. 23): Here are two conference announcements that I’ve been asked to make: Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS) 2016, January 14-16 in Cambridge MA, and the Fifth Women in Theory Workshop, at the Simons Institute in Berkeley, May 22-25, 2016.