Date: 1 April 2016, 4:30pm Location: Hempfield High School, Room 213 Speaker: David Lyons, Lebanon Valley College Title: Discrete symmetries of hypergraph states Abstract. We review the construction and basic properties of quantum states constructed from graphs and describe how their prominent role in quantum computation theory motivates the study of hypergraph states. We present results with delightful geometric and combinatorial connections arising from natural questions about entanglement and nonlocal properties.