QIS
16 August 2004 to 17 December 2004
Quantum information science is a new field of science and technology. It is an interdisciplinary subject where physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers have made major contributions. Deep links between the previously unrelated disciplines of quantum physics and computer science/information theory have been forged. On the one hand there have been insights into fundamental issues in physics. On the other, totally new methods of computation, communication and information processing have emerged. New technologies have also arisen offering, for example, the potential for immense computing power and secure communications.
Quantum information science is one of the most dynamic areas in the physical sciences and in information/computation theory, and new ideas and phenomena are appearing at a remarkable rate. There are also very many open questions and fundamental issues to be understood.
Some of the challenges on which we expect the programme to focus include characterising and quantifying non-local properties of quantum states and quantum operations; understanding what features of quantum mechanics are responsible for the power of quantum computation and communication; developing new quantum algorithms; identifying novel tasks in which the physical nature of the qubit is important (recent examples include frame alignment and clock synchronisation); calculating the capacities of quantum channels, and identifying new communication tasks, particularly in the multi-party case; investigating distributed and interactive computation; identifying cryptographic tasks which are candidates for novel quantum protocols.
A notable feature of the field is that despite the very large number of results that have appeared, it still lacks organising principles; a particular aim of the programme will be to develop more in the nature of structural understanding of the subject. A further aim is to encourage the interest of pure mathematicians in the area.
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23 August 2004 to 27 August 2004
6 September 2004 to 10 September 2004
27 September 2004 to 1 October 2004
Wednesday 18th August 2004 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 |
Thursday 19th August 2004 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Michael Ben-Or |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 14th September 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Guifre Vidal CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 15th September 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Roger Howe Stanford University |
Room 2 |
Thursday 23rd September 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Friday 24th September 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 30th September 2004 | |||
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14:30 to 16:00 | Room 1 | ||
16:30 to 18:00 | Room 1 | ||
18:00 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
Friday 1st October 2004 | |||
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09:00 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 5th October 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 7th October 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
John Preskill CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) |
Room 2 |
Friday 8th October 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Mario Szegedy |
Room 2 |
Thursday 14th October 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
John Smolin |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 19th October 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Mary Beth Ruskai Tufts University |
Room 2 |
Thursday 21st October 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Richard Cleve University of Calgary |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 26th October 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Tony Sudbery University of York |
Room 2 |
Thursday 28th October 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 2nd November 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Charles Bennett IBM Research |
Room 2 |
Thursday 4th November 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Masato Koashi Osaka University |
Room 2 |
Friday 5th November 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 9th November 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Thursday 11th November 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Igor Devetak University of Southern California |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 23rd November 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Maxim Shirokov Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 30th November 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Daniel Gottesman Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 1st December 2004 | |||
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14:15 to 15:30 |
Hans Briegel |
Room 2 |
Thursday 2nd December 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Ryszard Horodecki University of Gdansk |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 7th December 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Louis Kauffman |
Room 2 |
Thursday 9th December 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Anthony Chefles NUI Maynooth |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 16:30 | Room 2 | ||
16:30 to 17:00 |
Harry Buhrman Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) |
Room 2 |
Monday 13th December 2004 | |||
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15:00 to 17:00 | Room 2 |
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