QIS Seminar List
for period 16 Aug to 17 Dec
| Wednesday 18 August | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Wootters, WK (Williams College) | |
| Quantum measurements and finite geometry | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 19 August | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Ben-Or, M (Hebrew University) | |
| Fast quantum Byzantine agreement | Sem 2 | |
| Monday 23 August | ||
| 10:10-11:00 | Wootters, W (Williams College) | |
| Picturing qubits in phase space | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Latorre, JI (Barcelona) | |
| Entanglement loss along renormalization group flows | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Oppenheim, J (Cambridge) | |
| Secure key from bound entanglement | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:20 | Verstraete, F (MPI-Garching) | |
| Quantum spin chains from the perspective of quantum information theory | Sem 1 | |
| 16:20-17:10 | Vaidman, L (Tel-Aviv) | |
| Quantum versus classical, qubits versus bits | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 24 August | ||
| 09:20-10:10 | Buhrman, H (CWI) | |
| Robust polynomials and quantum algorithms | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-11:00 | Kempe, J (Paris-Sud) | |
| The complexity of local Hamiltonians | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Mosca, M (Waterloo) | |
| Quantum algorithms and phase estimation | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:20 | Laflamme, R (Perimeter Inst.) | |
| NMR quantum information processing | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 25 August | ||
| 09:20-10:10 | Plenio, MB (Imperial College) | |
| Entanglement \& area | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-11:00 | Cerf, N (ULB) | |
| Proposal for a loophole-free Bell test using homodyne detection | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Knight, P (Imperial College) | |
| Entanglement and decoherence in coined quantum walks | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 26 August | ||
| 09:20-10:10 | Acin, A (ICFO) | |
| Quantum and secret correlations | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-11:00 | Lo, HK (Toronto) | |
| Decoy state quantum key distribution | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Gisin, N (Geneva) | |
| 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) | |
| Remarks on mistrustful quantum and relativistic cryptography | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:20 | Massar, S (ULB) | |
| Provably secure experimental quantum bit string generation | Sem 1 | |
| 16:20-17:10 | Linden, N (Bristol) | |
| A new inequality for the von Neuman entropy | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 27 August | ||
| 09:20-10:10 | Reznik, B (Tel-Aviv) | |
| Vacuum entanglement | Sem 1 | |
| 10:10-11:00 | Kholevo, AS (Steklov Maths Inst.) | |
| Additivity problem: an overview | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:20 | Lloyd, S (MIT) | |
| Quantum computation and quantum gravity | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Winter, A (Bristol) | |
| Generic behaviour in quantum information theory: applications of the concentration of measure phenomenon | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:20 | Leung, D (Caltech) | |
| Applications of randomized techniques in quantum information theory | Sem 1 | |
| 16:20-17:10 | Vedral, V (Imperial College) | |
| High temperature macroscopic entanglement | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 06 September | ||
| 11:30-12:15 | Lo, HK (Toronto) | |
| Decoy state quantum key distribution: the best of both worlds? | Sem 2 | |
| 12:15-13:00 | Renner, R (ETH Zurich) | |
| Privacy amplification against quantum adversaries | Sem 2 | |
| 14:15-15:00 | Christandl, M (Cambridge) | |
| A generic security proof for quantum key distribution | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 07 September | ||
| 11:30-12:15 | Gisin, N (Geneva) | |
| 1. A new protocol for high bit rates 2. A new type of security proofs | Sem 2 | |
| 12:15-13:00 | Unruh, D, Mueller-Quade, J (Karlsruhe) | |
| Relating formal security for classical and quantum protocols | Sem 2 | |
| 14:15-14:35 | Wehner, S (CWI) | |
| Quantum anoymous transmissions | Sem 2 | |
| 14:35-14:55 | Colbeck, R (Cambridge) | |
| Variable bias coin tossing | Sem 2 | |
| 14:55-15:15 | Kent, APA (Cambridge) | |
| A simple no-go lemma | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 08 September | ||
| 11:30-12:15 | Barrett, J (Universite Bruxelles Libre ) | |
| Non-local correlations and key distribution | Sem 2 | |
| 14:15-15:00 | Duer, W (Austria) | |
| Graph states - stability under decoherence, entanglement purification and possible applications | Sem 2 | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Pederson, T (Colombia) | |
| On the key-uncertainty of quantum ciphers and the computational security of one-way quantum transmission | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 09 September | ||
| 11:30-12:15 | Hardy, L (Perimeter Institute) | |
| Cheat sensitive bit commitment | Sem 2 | |
| 12:15-13:00 | Massar, S (ULB) | |
| Experimental quantum bit string generation | Sem 2 | |
| 14:15-15:00 | Leung, D (Caltech) | |
| Applications of quantum universal composability theorem | Sem 2 | |
| 16:00-22:00 | ||
| PROSECCO meeting (joint with RESQ) | Sem 2 | |
| Friday 10 September | ||
| 11:30-12:15 | Horodecki, M (Gdansk) | |
| Locking of entanglement | Sem 2 | |
| 12:15-13:00 | Lutkenhaus, N (Erlangen-Nurnberg) | |
| Quantum correlations in quantum cryptology | Sem 2 | |
| 14:15-15:00 | Winter, A (Bristol) | |
| Distillation of secret key and entanglement from quantum states | Sem 2 | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Bennett, CH (IBM) | |
| Unlocking of a quantum channel's forward classical capacity by classical communication | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 14 September | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Vidal, G (Caltech) | |
| Entanglement in spin systems | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 15 September | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Howe, R (Yale) | |
| Invariants and multi-qubit systems | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 23 September | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Santha, M (Orsay) | |
| Quantum algorithm for finding a triangle | Sem 2 | |
| Friday 24 September | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Werner, R (Braunschweig) | |
| Quantum cellular automata | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 27 September | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Hirayama, Y (Ntt Basi Research Labs) | |
| Experimental implementation of semiconductor qubit | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Oberbeck, L (New South Wales) | |
| The fabrication of a silicon based quantum computer at the atomic-scale | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Greentree, A (Melbourne) | |
| Towards an integrated photonic quantum information platform in diamond | Sem 2 | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Jelezko, F (Stuttgart) | |
| A two-qubit conditional quantum gate with single spins in solid | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Marcus, C (Harvard) | |
| Prospects and challenges for quantum information processing using carbon nanotubes | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Smith, C (Cambridge) | |
| Erasable electrostatic lithography for quantum components | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:45 | Ardavan, A (Oxford) | |
| Endohedral fullerenes for electron-spin-based quantum computing | Sem 1 | |
| 16:45-17:30 | Lindelof, P (Copenhagen) | |
| Field effect transistor behaviour in a single wall carbon nanotubes and peapods | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 28 September | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Meier, F (UC, Santa Barbara) | |
| Quantum information processing using quantum dots | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Vandersypen, L (Delft) | |
| Electron spin qubits in quantum dots | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Tian, L (Innsbruck) | |
| Interfacing quantum optical and solid state qubits | Sem 1 | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Monroe, C (Michigan) | |
| Interfacing a single trapped ion qubit with a single photon flying quibit | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Plenio, M (Imperial) | |
| Entanglement propagation in interacting quantum systems | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Benjamin, S (Oxford) | |
| Easing the experimental burden: global control, perpetual coupling and the like | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:45 | Burkard, G (IBM) | |
| Production and detection of entangled electrons in small solid-state structures | Sem 1 | |
| 16:45-17:30 | Osborne, T (Bristol) | |
| The propagation of quantum information through a spin system | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 29 September | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Steane, A (Oxford) | |
| Cooling and controlled entanglement experiments using single and pairs of trapped calcium ions | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Blatt, RB (Innsbruck) | |
| Entanglement and transfer of quantum information with trapped Ca+ ions | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Hinds, E (Imperial) | |
| Atom chips: a vision for QIP with neutral atoms | Sem 1 | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Knight, P (Imperial) | |
| Decoherence issues for cold atoms near surfaces | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Walmsley, IA (Oxford) | |
| Efficient conditional preparation of single photons for quantum optica | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Munro, W (HP Labs) | |
| Linear and nonlinear quantum optical information processing | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Eisert, J (Potsdam) | |
| Optimizing linear optics quantum gates | Sem 1 | |
| 16:45-17:30 | Rarity, JG (Bristol) | |
| Experimental linear optical logic | Sem 1 | |
| 17:30-18:15 | Pryde, G (Queensland) | |
| Generating and harnessing photonic entanglement using linear optics | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 30 September | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Mooij, H (Delft) | |
| Superconducting quantum bits | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Schaetz, T (NIST) | |
| Distributing entanglement in a multi-zone ion trap | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Milburn, GJ (Queensland) | |
| Quantum closed-loop control and error correlation | Sem 1 | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Gisin, N (Geneva) | |
| 2- 3- and 4-photon quantum communication in telecom fibers | Sem 1 | |
| 14:30-16.00 | ||
| Presentations on recent developments | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-18.00 | ||
| Presentations on recent developments | Sem 1 | |
| 18:00-19.30 | ||
| Small group discussions between collaborators | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 01 October | ||
| 09:00-11.00 | ||
| Presentations on recent developments | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12.30 | ||
| Presentations on recent developments | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 05 October | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Braunstein, S (York) | |
| The laplacian of a graph as a density matrix | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 07 October | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Preskill, J (Caltech) | |
| Topological quantum computing for beginners | Sem 2 | |
| Friday 08 October | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Szegedy, M (Rutgers) | |
| Quantum speed-up of Markov chain based algorithms | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 14 October | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Smolin, J (IBM) | |
| The Pangloss Universe | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 19 October | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Ruskai, MB (Tufts) | |
| Recent progress on additivity and multiplicativity channels | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 21 October | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Cleve, R (Waterloo) | |
| Entangled Provers | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 26 October | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Sudbery, A (York) | |
| Quantum Bell inequalities (the quantum marginal problem) | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 28 October | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Jozsa, R (Bristol) | |
| An introduction to measurement-based quantum computation | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 02 November | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Bennett, CH (IBM) | |
| The reverse Shannon theorem | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 04 November | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Koashi, M (Osaka) | |
| Security of quantum key distribution using coherent states | Sem 2 | |
| Friday 05 November | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Harrow, A (MIT) | |
| Quantum circuits for the Schur transform | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 09 November | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Winter, A (Bristol) | |
| Aspects of generic entanglement | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 11 November | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Devetak, I (USC) | |
| A family of quantum protocols | Sem 2 | |
| Monday 15 November | ||
| 10:30-11.15 | D'Ariano, M (Pavia) | |
| On convex structures of states, POVM's and channels, and their mutual relations | Sem 1 | |
| 11:15-12.00 | Chiribella, G (Pavia) | |
| Extremel covariant POVM's | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14.45 | Artiles, LM (EURANDOM) | |
| Efficient minimax rates for Wigner function estimation from quantum homodyne tomography data | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15.30 | Owari, M (Tokyo) | |
| Local copying of orthogonal maximally entangled states and its relationship to local discrimination | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 16 November | ||
| 10:30-11.15 | Bagan, E (Barcelona) | |
| Optimal qubit mixed state estimation | Sem 1 | |
| 11:15-12.00 | Munoz-Tapia, R (Barcelona) | |
| Estimation of qubit mixed states with local measurements | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14.45 | Ghosh, S (York) | |
| State estimation on a circle | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15.30 | Hayashi, M (ERATO) | |
| Asymptotic theory of quantum estimation | Sem 1 | |
| 16:15-17.00 | Sacchi, M (Pavia) | |
| Quantum measurements that maximise the likelihood and optimal reference frame transmission | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 17 November | ||
| 10:30-11.15 | Jupp, P (St Andrews) | |
| Some aspects of quantum statistical inference | Sem 1 | |
| 11:15-12.00 | Petz, D (Alfred Renyi Institute of Math, Budapest) | |
| Sufficiency in quantum statistical inference | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14.45 | Keyl, M (Pavia) | |
| Quantum state estimation and large deviations | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15.30 | Guta, M (Utrecht) | |
| On the relation between information and disturbance in quantum measurements | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 18 November | ||
| 10:30-11.15 | Fujiwara, A (Osaka) | |
| Differential geometry of quantum channel estimation | Sem 1 | |
| 11:15-12.00 | De Martini, F (Roma) | |
| Optimal realisation of non-unitary maps for quantum information | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14.45 | Tsuda, Y (Chuo) | |
| Quantum estimation for non-differentiable models | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15.30 | Hradil, Z (Palacky) | |
| Maximum likelihood methods in quantum mechanics | Sem 1 | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Ballester, M (Utrecht) | |
| Estimation of SU(d) using entanglement the d $>$ 2 case | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 19 November | ||
| 10:30-11.15 | Larsson, J-A (Linkoping) | |
| The Bell inequality and the coincidence time loophole | Sem 1 | |
| 11:15-12.00 | Loubenets , E (Moscow State Institute) | |
| Class of quantum states satisfying the original Bell inequality | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14.45 | Buscemi, F (Pavia) | |
| Repeatable measurements without eigenstates | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15.30 | Ozawa, M (Tohoku) | |
| Universal uncertainty principle | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 23 November | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Shirokov, M (Steklov Math Inst) | |
| The Holevo capacity of infinite dimensional channels and the additivity problem | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 30 November | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Gottesman, D (Perimeter) | |
| High fidelity to low weight | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 01 December | ||
| 14:15-15.30 | Briegel, H (Innsbruck) | |
| Entanglement and decoherence in semi-quantal gases | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 02 December | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Horodecki, P (Gdansk) | |
| Quantum states and quantum channels | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 07 December | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Kauffman, L (UIC) | |
| Spin networks and anyonic topological quantum computing | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 09 December | ||
| 11:00-12.00 | Chefles, A (Maynooth) | |
| Quantum voting | Sem 2 | |
| 16:00-16.30 | Winter, A (Bristol) | |
| Uncertainty, monogamy, and implications for entanglement | Sem 2 | |
| 16:30-17.00 | Buhrman, H (CWI) | |
| Communication complexity and fault tolerance | Sem 2 | |
| Monday 13 December | ||
| 15:00-17.00 | ||
| Tutorial for QIS participants | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 14 December | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Turok, N (CMS) | |
| Model of a big crunch/big bang transition | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Schuetzhold, R (TU Dresden) | |
| Black hole analogues and the universality of the Hawking effect | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Unruh, B (British Columbia) | |
| Bohr, Penrose and Hawking | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 15 December | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | 't Hooft, G (Utrecht) | |
| Information loss, determinism and quantum mechanics | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Penrose, R (Oxford) | |
| Limits of quantum mechanics from general relativity: a clash of principles | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Loll, R (Utrecht) | |
| Universe from sub-Planckian bits | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 16 December | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Gottesman, D (Perimeter Institute) | |
| Black hole evaporation, unitarity and final state projection | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Galfard, C (CMS) | |
| The path integral approach to the black hole information problem | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Terno, D (Perimeter Institute) | |
| When entanglement met black hole... | Sem 1 | |
| 17:30-18.30 | Markopoulou, F (Perimeter Institute) | |
| Quantum information theory and the low energy problem of quantum gravity | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 17 December | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Lloyd, S (MIT) | |
| Quantum gravity and quantum computation | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Plenio, M (Imperial College) | |
| Entanglement and area | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:10 | Smolin, J (IBM ) | |
| Locked information and the black hole information loss problem | Sem 1 | |
| 12:10-12.30 | Bennett, C (IBM) | |
| Black holes, simulated time travel and the scalability of complexity | Sem 1 | |
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