Quantum Science and Technology Colloquia (Formerly Quantum Information Science)

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Colloquia will be held on Wednesdays, 3:00PM-4:00PM room SB 142, unless otherwise specified. (Room changed to ES 443 from 15 May to 26 June 2013).

2013

1. Electron shot noise is quantum light
   Bertrand Reulet [Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke]
   15 May 2013  - abstract -




2. Modulating light at the micro- and nano-scale
   Joyce Poon [University of Toronto]
   Co-sponsored by: OSA Student Chapter
   19 February 2013  - abstract -




2012

3. Coherence, decoherence and incoherence in natural light-induced processes
   Paul Brumer [University of Toronto]
   Co-sponsored by: Department of Chemistry
   31 October 2012  - abstract -




4. Prospects in relativistic quantum information
   Achim Kempf [University of Waterloo]
   19 September 2012  - abstract -




5. Toward Quantum Information Processing Devices with Semiconductor and Graphene Quantum Dots
   Pawel Hawrylak [National Research Council (NRC) of Canada]
   13 September 2012  - abstract -




6. Correlated quantum transport of electrons up to 360 K (joint colloquium with Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics)
   John Miller [University of Houston]
   Co-sponsored by: Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics
   21 June 2012  - abstract -




7. Monolithic Semiconductor Circuits for Frequency Conversion & Quantum Photonics
   Amr Helmy [University of Toronto]
   5 June 2012  - abstract -




8. Position-based cryptography (joint colloquium with Department of Computer Science)
   Harry Buhrman [Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, and University of Amsterdam]
   Co-sponsored by: Department of Computer Science
   2 May 2012  - abstract -




9. Quantum states: Are they the real thing? (joint colloquium with the Department of Physics and Astronomy)
   Terry Rudolph [Imperial College]
   Co-sponsored by: Department of Physics and Astronomy
   9 March 2012  - abstract -




2011

10. Effective Hamiltonians for Detuned Systems
    Daniel James [University of Toronto]
    28 April 2011  - abstract -




11. Spin Glasses and Computational Complexity
    Daniel Gottesman [Perimeter Institute]
    Co-sponsored by: MITACS QIP Seminar Series
    6 April 2011  - abstract -




2010

12. Quantum imaging: exploiting the transverse structure of individual photons (joint colloquium with the Department of Physics and Astronomy)
    Robert Boyd [University of Ottawa]
    Co-sponsored by: Department of Physics and Astronomy
    3 December 2010  - abstract -




13. Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Reactions
    Sharon Hammes-Schiffer [Pennsylvania State University]
    Co-sponsored by: Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics
    18 October 2010  - abstract -




14. Cavity QED: Nonlinearity and the World of Quanta (joint colloquium with the Department of Physics and Astronomy)
    Howard Carmichael [University of Auckland]
    Co-sponsored by: Department of Physics and Astronomy
    19 February 2010  - abstract -




2009

15. Quantum limits and entanglement in metrology and magnetometry
    Eugene Polzik [Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University]
    8 December 2009  - abstract -




16. Quantum computer - dream and realization
    Rainer Blatt [Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck]
    2 November 2009  - abstract -




17. Does Zeno Freeze the Evolution? On Quantum Heating, Cooling and Freezing.
    Gershon Kurizki [The Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot 76100 , Israel]
    29 July 2009  - abstract -




18. Towards a QED for dispersive and absorptive media
    John Sipe [University of Toronto]
    5 May 2009  - abstract -




19. Hiking over quantum control landscapes (MITACS QIP Seminar Series)
    Herschel Rabitz [Princeton University]
    Co-sponsored by: Institute for Biocomplexity & Information
    7 April 2009  - abstract -




20. Quantum information and its application to cryptography (MITACS QIP Seminar Series)
    Michele Mosca [Institute for Quantum Computing]
    3 April 2009  - abstract -




21. Quantum-Opto-Mechanics: quantum foundations and quantum information on the nano- and microscale
    Markus Aspelmeyer [Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of Austrian Academy of Sciences]
    Co-sponsored by: Department of Physics and Astronomy
    10 March 2009  - abstract -




2008

22. Using quantum mechanics to detect anthrax (joint colloquium with the Department of Physics and Astronomy)
    Marlan Scully [Texas A&M University and Princeton University]
    Co-sponsored by: MITACS QIP Seminar Series
    12 December 2008  - abstract -




23. Entanglement in quantum many-body systems far away from equilibrium: Are there non-trivial quantum effects in biology?
    Hans Briegel [Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck; Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences]
    Co-sponsored by: MITACS QIP Seminar Series
    11 December 2008  - abstract -




24. Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger (joint colloquium with the Department of Physics and Astronomy)
    Edward Gerjuoy [Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh]
    Co-sponsored by: Institute for Quantum Information Science
    31 October 2008  - abstract -




25. Controlled Coupling and Occupation of Silicon Atomic Quantum Dots at Room Temperature
    Robert Wolkow [Department of Physics, University of Alberta & National Institute for Nanotechnology]
    Co-sponsored by: MITACS QIP Seminar Series
    21 October 2008  - abstract -




26. Dimensional Scaling for Atoms and Molecules (PHAS colloquium)
    Goong Chen [Texas A&M University]
    16 May 2008  - abstract -




2007

27. A personal perspective on quantum cryptography (Faculty of Science Distinguished Lecture)
    Gilles Brassard [Université de Montréal]
    Co-sponsored by: MITACS QIP Seminar Series
    28 September 2007  - abstract -




28. Protecting an optical qubit against photon loss
    Konrad Banaszek [Nicolaus Copernicus University]
    Co-sponsored by: MITACS QIP Seminar Series
    20 June 2007  - abstract -




29. Quantum Interconnecting Atoms and Photons (Co-sponsored by MITACS)
    Joerg Schmiedmayer [Atominstitut der österreichischen Universitäten]
    Co-sponsored by: MITACS QIP Seminar Series
    4 June 2007  - abstract -




30. Quantum observations: reconstruction of quantum states and processes (Co-sponsored by MITACS)
    Vladimír Bužek [Research Center for Quantum Information, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences]
    Co-sponsored by: MITACS QIP Seminar Series
    31 May 2007  - abstract -




31. Entanglement in Quantum Information (MAST Colloquium)
    Gilad Gour [University of Calgary]
    22 March 2007  - abstract -




32. Large-Scale Quantum Phenomena, & the Decoherence Enigma (PHAS Colloquium)
    Philip Stamp [Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics, Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia]
    16 March 2007  - abstract -




2006

33. Cat States and Bose Condensates in Double Well Potentials
    Birgitta Whaley [University of California, Berkeley]
    18 October 2006  - abstract -




34. Linear Optical Quantum Computing, Imaging, and Metrology -- What's New with N00N States?
    Jonathan Dowling [Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge]
    4 October 2006  - abstract -




35. Einstein, the EPR argument, and Steering: New Perspectives from Quantum Information
    Howard Wiseman [Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, School of Science, Griffith University]
    17 August 2006  - abstract -




36. Fault-tolerant architecture for very noisy gates
    Emanuel Knill [NIST]
    7 June 2006  - abstract -




37. Towards optical quantum computation with realistic devices
    Terry Rudolph [Imperial College, London]
    19 April 2006  - abstract -




38. Observing and manipulating quantum information: some experiments with photons and atoms.
    Aephraim Steinberg [CQIQC, University of Toronto]
    23 February 2006  - abstract -




2005

39. Towards Long-Distance Quantum Communication.
    Wolfgang Tittel [ Group of Applied Physics (GAP)-Optique, Université de Genèe, Switzerland]
    13 July 2005  - abstract -




40. Practical Quantum Cryptography
    Alexei Trifonov [Chief Scientist and Vice-President Research and Development MagiQ Technologies Inc., Boston, USA]
    6 July 2005  - abstract -




41. Optical quantum computing: science-fiction, horror-story or news?
    Andrew White [Program Manager, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology and Faculty Member, Centre for Biophotonics and Laser Science, The University of Queensland, Australia]
    17 June 2005  - abstract -




42. Quantum Key Distribution
    Norbert Lütkenhaus [Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Erlange-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany]
    10 June 2005  - abstract -




43. Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation with Entangled Photons
    Anton Zeilinger [Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Vienna and Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences]
    4 March 2005  - abstract -