In a non-local game, two non-communicating players cooperate to convince a referee about a strategy that does not violate the rules of the game. A quantum strategy for such a game enable players to determine their answers by performing joint measurements on a shared entangled state. In this talk we will concentrate on non-local games that come from problems in graph theory. We will survey some recent breakthroughs, explain why the study of such games is important, and introduce some connections to operator algebras and their representations.

Speaker’s webpage: https://cmortiz.github.io/

Location: Jointly in person and virtually on Zoom. SAS 4201 for in-person participation. The Zoom link is sent out to the Algebra and Combinatorics mailing list, please contact Corey Jones at cmjones6@ncsu.edu to be added.