• Read all 5 pages of this perspective piece by Frank Wilczek on Majorana fermions: This is longer than our typical readings, so please set aside a bit more time to focus on it! For reference, it took me between half an hour and an hour to read.
• (Highly recommended) Watch the following introduction to Majorana fermions from QuTech academyThis is a remarkably clear video, though it may help to read the Wilczek piece first.
• (Optional) Skim the following survey paper: Some notable sections: the abstract, the introduction, and section 3. I might talk about section 3 at our next meeting, because its says a couple of very strange things.
• (Optional) Skim the following lecture notes from LMU (Munich). The first page is more approachable than the rest, but check out the creation/annihilation operator math on page 2 as well! I'm not expecting you to understand it - just take a museum walk through the equations.

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• Forgot to record ourselves
• Introduced ourselves
• Talked about various types of hardware implementations
• Focused in on Majorana fermions, the hardware option Microsoft has bet everything on which has inherent error correction properties
• Discussed topology, and the difference between a homomorphism and homeomorphism