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W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT)
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 xQIT Conference


Difficult Problems in Quantum Information Theory


Program Schedule


May 3, 2011

 

7:30 - 8:30 AM Continental breakfast Building 36 fourth-floor lobby
8:30 - 8:45 AM

Jeffrey Shapiro and Seth Lloyd, MIT

Welcoming remarks

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8:45 - 9:10 AM

Christopher Fuchs, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Charting the Shape of Quantum State Space

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9:15 - 9:40 AM

G. Mauro D'Ariano, University of Pavia

A Quantum Digital Universe

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9:45 - 10:10 AM

Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California

An Extreme Quantum Result

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10:15 - 10:45 AM Coffee break Building 36 fourth-floor lobby
10:45 - 11:10 AM

Edward Farhi, MIT

An Update on the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm

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11:15 - 11:40 AM

Scott Aaronson, MIT

The Quantum Money Frontier

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11:45 AM - 12:10 PM

Peter Shor, MIT

Quantum Money From Knots

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12:15 - 1:45 PM Lunch Star Conference room, 32-D463
1:45 - 2:10 PM

Seth Lloyd, MIT

Projective Measurements for Quantum Channel Decoding

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2:15 - 2:40 PM

Vittorio Giovannetti, Scuola Normale Superiore

Master Equations for Correlated Quantum Channels

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2:45 - 3:10 PM

Raul Garcia-Patron, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

Majorization Relations in a Two-Mode Squeezer: A Possible Way Towards Solving the Minimum Output Entropy Conjecture for Bosonic Gaussian Channels

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3:15 - 3:45 PM Coffee break Building 36 fourth-floor lobby
3:45 - 4:10 PM

Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Improving Telescopes with Quantum Repeaters

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4:15 - 4:40 PM

Mankei Tsang, University of New Mexico

Quantum Limits to Waveform Estimation

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4:45 - 5:10 PM

Howard Wiseman, Griffith University

How Many Bits Does It Take to Track an Open Quantum System?

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6:30 PM Dinner Stata Center fourth-floor R&D Space

 

May 4, 2011

8:45 - 9:10 AM

Nicolas Cerf, Université libre de Bruxelles

Gaussian Quantum Error Correction

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9:15 - 9:40 AM

Saikat Guha, Raytheon BBN Technologies

Optical Realizations of Optimal Quantum Receivers

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9:45 - 10:10 AM

Mark Wilde, McGill University

The Quest for a Quantum Simultaneous Decoder

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10:15 - 10:45 AM Coffee break Building 36 fourth-floor lobby
10:45 - 11:10 AM

Lorenzo Maccone, University of Pavia

A Quantum Theory of Closed Timeline Curves

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11:15 - 11:40 AM

David Bacon, University of Washington

Graph Isomorphism Beyond the Hidden Subgroup Problem

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11:45 - 1:45 PM Lunch Student Center, Building W20, Room 491
1:45 - 2:10 PM

Stefano Pirandola, University of York

Binary Quantum Discrimination

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2:15 - 2:40 PM

Jeffrey Shapiro, MIT

Defeating Eavesdropping with Guassian-State Quantum Illumination

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2:45 - 3:10 PM

Graeme Smith, IBM

Realistic Zero-Capacity Channels for Quantum Communication

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3:15 - 3:45 PM Coffee break Building 36 fourth-floor lobby
3:45 - 4:10 PM

Lorenza Viola

Pointer State Engineering

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4:15 - 4:40 PM

Paola Cappellaro, MIT

Coherent-State Transfer via Mixed Spin Chains

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4:45 - 5:10 PM

Christian Weedbrook, University of Toronto

Quantum Cryptography Approaching the Classical Limit

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5:15 - 5:25 PM

Seth Lloyd and Jeffrey Shapiro

Closing Remarks

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