Workshop Programme
for period 23-27 August
Quantum Information Theory: Present Status and Future Directions
23-27 August
Timetable
| Monday 23 August | ||
| 10:10-11:00 | Wootters, W (Williams College) | QIS |
| Picturing qubits in phase space | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Latorre, JI (Barcelona) | QIS |
| Entanglement loss along renormalization group flows | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Oppenheim, J (Cambridge) | QIS |
| Secure key from bound entanglement | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:20 | Verstraete, F (MPI-Garching) | QIS |
| Quantum spin chains from the perspective of quantum information theory | Sem 1 | |
| 16:20-17:10 | Vaidman, L (Tel-Aviv) | QIS |
| Quantum versus classical, qubits versus bits | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 24 August | ||
| 09:20-10:10 | Buhrman, H (CWI) | QIS |
| Robust polynomials and quantum algorithms | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-11:00 | Kempe, J (Paris-Sud) | QIS |
| The complexity of local Hamiltonians | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Mosca, M (Waterloo) | QIS |
| Quantum algorithms and phase estimation | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:20 | Laflamme, R (Perimeter Inst.) | QIS |
| NMR quantum information processing | Sem 1 | |
| 18:45-19:30 | Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only) | QIS |
| Wednesday 25 August | ||
| 09:20-10:10 | Plenio, MB (Imperial College) | QIS |
| Entanglement \& area | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-11:00 | Cerf, N (ULB) | QIS |
| Proposal for a loophole-free Bell test using homodyne detection | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Knight, P (Imperial College) | QIS |
| Entanglement and decoherence in coined quantum walks | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 26 August | ||
| 09:20-10:10 | Acin, A (ICFO) | QIS |
| Quantum and secret correlations | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-11:00 | Lo, HK (Toronto) | QIS |
| Decoy state quantum key distribution | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Gisin, N (Geneva) | QIS |
| Simulation of singlet correlation without any communication, but using a weaker resource: a "non-local machine" | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Kent, A (Cambridge) | QIS |
| Remarks on mistrustful quantum and relativistic cryptography | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:20 | Massar, S (ULB) | QIS |
| Provably secure experimental quantum bit string generation | Sem 1 | |
| 16:20-17:10 | Linden, N (Bristol) | QIS |
| A new inequality for the von Neuman entropy | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 27 August | ||
| 09:20-10:10 | Reznik, B (Tel-Aviv) | QIS |
| Vacuum entanglement | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-11:00 | Kholevo, AS (Steklov Maths Inst.) | QIS |
| Additivity problem: an overview | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Lloyd, S (MIT) | QIS |
| Quantum computation and quantum gravity | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Winter, A (Bristol) | QIS |
| Generic behaviour in quantum information theory: applications of the concentration of measure phenomenon | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:20 | Leung, D (Caltech) | QIS |
| Applications of randomized techniques in quantum information theory | Sem 1 | |
| 16:20-17:10 | Vedral, V (Imperial College) | QIS |
| High temperature macroscopic entanglement | Sem 1 | |
| Other Seminars |
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