May to August 1999
Organisers: A Albrecht (UC Davis), Peter Knight (Imperial), RM Solovay (Berkeley), W Zurek (LANL)
Workshop: Entanglement and Quantum Information Processing |
The second week of the workshop is held jointly with the first meeting of the European Science Foundation programme on Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computation and is sponsored by this programme.
For further information about the ESF programme please see the website
Monday 12 July
08.50-09.00 M Plenio (Imperial)
Welcome
Session 2.1 Chair: M Plenio
09.00-09.40 A Holevo (Steklov. Math.
Inst.)
Reliability function of quantum communication channel
09.40-10.20 B Schumacher (Kenyon)
Optimal signal ensembles
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.30 R Horodecki (Gdansk)
On balance of quantum information
11.30-12.10 D Bruss (Hannover)
Entanglement splitting of pure bipartite quantum states
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00
European Science Foundation programme - organisational meeting (M
Plenio & T Spiller)
15.30-16.00 Tea
Session 2.2 Chair: B Schumacher
16.00-16.40 W Wootters (Williams)
Distributed entanglement
16.40-17.20 K Zyczkowski (IF UJ, Krakow)
Quantum entanglement: typical or unusual property?
17.20-18.00 G Giedke (Innsbruck)
Entanglement purification for continuous variables
19.15 Dinner
Tuesday 13 July
Session 2.3 Chair: A Steans
09.00-09.40 N Gisin (Geneva)
Quantum cryptography on noisy channels: quantum versus classical
key-agreement protocols
09.40-10.20 J Smolin (IBM Research)
Unextendible product bases and bound entanblement
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.30 L Hardy (Oxford)
Manipulating bipartite entanglement
11.30-12.10 W Duer (Innsbruck)
Separability and distillability of multiparticle quantum systems
12.30-14.00 Lunch
15.00-15.30 Tea
Session 2.4 Chair: S Massar
15.30-16.10 M Plenio (Imperial)
Local manipulation of pure-state entanglement
16.10-16.40 N Cerf (ULB, Brussels)
Simulating entanglement with classical communication
16.40-17.30 R Tarrach (ECM, Spain)
Optimal, minimal and universal measurements of mixed states
17.30-19.00 Posters and Wine Reception
19.15 Dinner
Wednesday 14 July
Session 2.5 Chair: P Knight
09.00-09.40 S Haroche (ENS, Paris)
Entanglement experiments in cavity QED
09.40-10.20 H Weinfurter (LMU, Munich)
Quantum communication with entangled photons
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.30 R Hughes (Los Alamos)
Practical quantum cryptography systems
11.30-12.10 S Braunstein (Bangor)
Versatility of down-converters
12.30-14.00 Lunch
15.30-16.00 Tea
Session 2.6 Chair: G Mahler
16.00-16.40 A Uhlmann (Leipzig)
Some roofs and related inequalities
16.40-17.20 B Terhal (CWI)
Applications of positive linear maps in the theory of bipartite
mixed state entanglement
17.20-18.20 C Bennett (IBM Research)
'The Rolf Landauer Lecture'
19.15 Conference Dinner Sidney Sussex College
Thursday 15 July
Session 2.7 Chair: N Gisin
09.00-09.40 L Vaidman (Tel Aviv)
Local and nonlocal storage of information in an ensemble of
quantum waves
09.40-10.20 S Massar (ULB, Brussels)
How much information can be obtained by a quantum measurement?
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.30 A Winter (Bielefeld)
Coding theorem, strong converse, and the Holevo bound for quantum
channels
11.30-12.10 A Albrecht (UC, Davis)
Irreversibility: from bit to bang
12.30-14.00 Lunch
15.30-16.00 Tea
Session 2.8 Chair: N Cerf
16.00-16.40 G Kurizki (Weizmann, Israel)
Control of decoherence and loss in quantum systems
16.40-17.20 N Zagury (UFRJ, Brazil)
Determinist entanglement and teleportation of internal states of
trapped ions
17.20-18.00 GM D'Ariano (Pavia)
Quantum tomography for arbitrary quantum systems
19.15 Dinner
Friday 16 July
Session 2.9 Chair: R Tarrach
09.00-09.40 W Unruh (UBC)
False decoherence and energyless decoherence
09.40-10.20 D Mayers (NEC)
Quantum coin tossing
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.30 N Lutkenhaus (Helsinki)
Individual attacks in quantum key distribution
11.30-12.10 HK Lo (HP Labs)
Quantum security: illusion or reality?
12.30-14.00 Lunch
15.30-16.00 Tea
Session 2.10 Chai: B Terhal
16.00-16.40 H Buhrman (CWI)
Recent results in quantum commmunication complexity
16.40-17.20 P Hoyer (Aarhus)
Noncommutative Hidden Subgroups
17.20-18.00 A Steane (Oxford)
Quantum fault tolerance: what is and is not known
19.15 Dinner