Peter Clifford

Background and Research Interests:

• Polygonal Random Fields
• Prediction and Control in Non-linear Systems
• Stochastic Models of Molecular Motion and Reaction in Chemistry
• Statistical aspects of Quantum Computation.
• CV and Publications

Recent papers, packages and talks

• R package: Classical boson sampling (2017) (with R. Clifford).
• The classical complexity of boson sampling, Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (2018) 146-155 (with R. Clifford).
• Plenary talk: Classical boson sampling algorithms and the outlook for experimental boson sampling, Quantum Information Processing (2018) (with A. Neville, C. Sparrow, R. Clifford, E. Johnston, P. Birchall, A. Montanaro and A. Laing).