Presentations

David Poulin, "Quantum Metropolis Sampling", invited talk, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal, October 2011.

David Poulin, "Decoding problem for topological quantum codes", invited talk, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, September 2011.

David Poulin, "Universal topological phase of 2D stabilizer codes and decoding algorithms ", invited talk, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, April 2011.

David Poulin, "Building robust quantum computers: software approach", McGill Physics Society Colloquium, McGill University, March 2011.

David Poulin, "Quantum Metropolis Sampling", invited talk, Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Annual Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, February 2011.

David Poulin, "Local equivalence of topological order and decoding algorithms", invited talk, Sydney quantum information theory workshop, Coogee, Australia, January 2011.

M. Mosca and L. Ioannou, "Unconditionally-secure and reusable public-key authentication", 6th Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication & Cryptography (TQC2011), Madrid, Spain, 2011.

David Poulin, "Local Equivalence of Topological Order : Kitaev's code and the color code", Quantum Information in Quantum Many-Body Physics, University de Montréal, Quebec, October 2011.

David Poulin, "Topological Error Correction", ORAQL Kick-off meeting, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, September 2011.

David Poulin, "Les rudiments du calcul quantique topologique", ACFAS, Sherbrooke, Quebec, May 2011.

David Poulin, "Local equivalence of topological order : Kitaev code and color codes", APS March Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2011.

David Poulin, "Introduction to Topological Quantum Computation", invited talk, Conférence étudiante de l'INTRIQ, Sutton, Quebec, January 2011.

David Poulin and G. Duclos-Cianci, "Fast decoders for topological quantum codes", invited talk, MITACS/CORS Annual Conference 2010, Edmonton, Alberta, 25-28 May 2010.

Peter Høyer and J. Rashid, "Protocols for nonlocality distillation", invited talk, INTRIQ biannual meeting, Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, 7-8 June 2010.

Jibran Rashid and P. Høyer, "Optimal protocols for nonlocality distillation", 6th Canadian Quantum Information Students' Conference (CQISC 2009), Fields Institute, Toronto, 22-23 August 2009.

Jaewoo Joo, and D. L. Feder, "The theory of local complementation is useful for building concatenated", invited talk, MITACS/CORS Annual Conference 2010, Edmonton, Alberta, 25-28 May 2010.

Yuval Sanders, B. Fortescue and B. C. Sanders, "Quantifying the resourcefulness of quantum reference frames", MITACS/CORS Annual Conference 2010, Edmonton, Alberta, 25-28 May 2010.

Michael Skotiniotis, A. Roy, G. Gour and B. C. Sanders, "Entanglement-enhanced classical communication without a shared frame of reference", 1st Canadian Prairie Theoretical Physics Network, Lethbridge, Alberta, 25-26 August 2010.

Michael Skotiniotis, A. Roy, G. Gour and B. C. Sanders, "Classical Communication using random unitary channels", Canadian Quantum Information Students' Conference (CQISC 2010), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 12-16 July 2010.

Nathan Wiebe, D. W. Berry, P. Høyer and B. C. Sanders, "Quantum Computer Simulations of Time Dependent Hamiltonians", invited talk, IQC, Waterloo, 19 October 2010.

Nathan Wiebe, D. Cheung and P. Høyer, "A Path Integral Approach To The Quantum Adiabatic Approximation", Canadian Quantum Information Students' Conference (CQISC 2010), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 12-16 July 2010.

Nathan Wiebe, D. W. Berry, P. Høyer and B. C. Sanders, "Higher Order Decompositions of Ordered Operator Exponentials", invited talk, MITACS/CORS 2010, Shaw Conference Center, Edmonton, 25-28 May 2010.

Nathan Wiebe, D. W. Berry, P. Høyer and B. C. Sanders, "Higher Order Decompositions of Ordered Operator Exponentials", invited talk, International Workshop on Quantum Nonstationary Systems (IWQNS 2009), Brasilia, Brazil, 19-23 October 2009.

Nathan Wiebe, D. W. Berry and B. C. Sanders, "Quantum computer simulations of time dependent hamiltonians", Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC - III), Toronto, Ontario, 24-27 August 2009.

Andrew Childs, "Algorithms for quantum computers", International Olympiad in Informatics Evening Lecture, Waterloo, 16 August 2010.

Andrew Childs and P. Wojcan, "Quantum algorithms", Tenth Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information, Vancouver, 17-19 July 2010.

Andrew Childs, "Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics", Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, 10 March 2010.

Andrew Childs, "Quantum property testing for sparse graphs", University of Waterloo Tutte Seminar, 11 December 2009.

Andrew Childs, "The quantum query complexity of implementing black-box unitary transformations", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 October 2009.

Andrew Childs, "The relationship between continuous- and discrete-time quantum walk", invited talk, Los Alamos National Lab, 10 September 2009.

Andrew Childs, "The relationship between continuous- and discrete-time quantum walk", invited talk, QuantumWorks 4th Annual General Meeting, Toronto, 11 June 2009.

Andrew Childs, "The relationship between continuous- and discrete-time quantum walk", invited talk, SQuInT 2009, Seattle, 22 February 2009.

Andrew Childs, "Universal computation by quantum walk", invited talk, QIP 2009, Santa Fe, 14 January 2009.

Andrew Childs, "Universal computation by quantum walk", invited talk, CIFAR Workshop on Quantum Information Processing, Kelowna, 5 November 2008.

Andrew Childs, "Factoring integers with a quantum computer", two invited summer school lectures, Eighth Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information, Montreal, 20 June 2008.

Michele Mosca, "Discrete-Time Simulations of Continuous-Time Quantum Query Algorithms", PCTS-MITRE Quantum Computation Seminar Series, Princeton University, 29 April 2009 .

Michele Mosca, "Quantum Information and its application to cryptography", Calgary, Institute for Quantum Information Science (IQIS) seminar, April 2009.

Michele Mosca,"Cryptography in a Quantum World", Centre for Information, Security and Cryptography (CISaC), Distinguished Lecture Series, April 2009.

Michele Mosca, [IM08] L. Ioannou, M. Mosca, "Superposing the known and unknown", 2008 Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science (AQIS'08), Seoul, Korea (2008).

Michele Mosca, [MM07] M. McKague and M. Mosca, "Simulating Quantum Circuits using, Real Valued Unitaries", 2007 Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science (AQIS'07), Kyoto, Japan (2007).

Claude Crepeau, [2008c] Generating Everlasting Security while it lasts. Lecture given at the Information Systems Security Colloquium (ISS 2008), Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, May 30th 2008.

Claude Crepeau, [2007b] Information Theoretic Interactive Hashing. Lecture given at the C&O@40 Conference, University of Waterloo, June 19th 2007.

Claude Crepeau, [2007a] Multi-prover bit commitment and non-locality. Lecture given at the Lisbon Quantum Computation, Information and Logic Meetings Series, WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY AND SECURITY. Lisbon, Portugal, July 19th 2007.

Claude Crepeau, [2006d] Alice and Bob’s Strange Adventures in Quantumland. Lecture given at the The Cutting Edge: Royal Society Lectures in Science, McGill University, 12 Oct. 2006.

Claude Crepeau, [2006b] Non-Locality and multi-prover Commitments. Lecture given at the Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science 2006 (AQIS’06), Beijing, China, 2 Sept. 2006.

Richard Cleve, Invited talk, “Parallel repetition of quantum proof systems,” British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, April, 2007.

Richard Cleve, Invited talk, “Recent Developments in Quantum Algorithms for NAND Trees,” CIFAR meeting, St. John’s, Canada, May, 2007.

Richard Cleve, Plenary talk, “Efficient quantum algorithms for simulating sparse Hamiltonians,” MITACS Annual General Meeting, Winnipeg, June, 2007.

Richard Cleve, Invited talk, “Exact and approximate unitary 2-designs: constructions and applications,” Workshop on Randomization of Quantum Systems, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, June, 2007.

Richard Cleve, Invited talk, “A survey of quantum algorithms,” Waterloo Symposium in Undergraduate Mathematics, University of Waterloo, June, 2007.

Richard Cleve, Invited talks, three lectures on quantum algorithms, 7th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, August, 2007.

Richard Cleve, Plenary Lecture, “Quantum information, computation and communication,”Annual CRM Congress (CRM = Centre de researches en mathématiques), Québec City, June 2008.

Richard Cleve, Invited Talk, “Efficient discrete-time simulations of continuous-time quantum Query algorithms,” CIAR meeting, Kelowna, British Columbia, November 2008.

Richard Cleve, Reporting talk, to report on activities of the ARO-funded Centre for Quantum Algorithms (Waterloo/Calgary/Guelph), at the Quantum Computing & Quantum Algorithms Program Review, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2008.

Gilad Gour, G. Gour, Workshop on entanglement and thermodynamic analogies (invited talk) Hosted by: McGill Bellairs research station, Barbados, February 23-27, 2009 .

Gilad Gour, G. Gour, Workshop on Geometry and representation theory of tensors for computer science, statistics and other areas (invited talk) Hosted by:American Institute of Mathematics (Palo Alto), July 21-25, 2008 .

Gilad Gour, G. Gour, Alberta North-South Dialogue on Mathematics (invited talk) Hosted by: University of Calgary, May 2, 2008.

Gilad Gour, G. Gour, R. W. Spekkens, B. C. Sanders and P. S. Turner, Resource Theories, SU(2) Super Selection Rule, and Time Inversion (contributed), Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC 2008), University of Calgary, Alberta, 19 Aug 2008 - 24 Aug 2008.

Gilad Gour, A. Roy, Quantum State Tomography Using Two-Outcome Measurements (poster), Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC 2008), University of Calgary, Alberta, 19 Aug 2008 - 24 Aug 2008.

Gilad Gour, A. Roy and A. J. Scott, Unitary t-designs (contributed), Conference on Algebraic Aspects of Association Schemes and Scheme Rings, Regina, Saskatchewan, 8 Jul 2008 - 11 Jul 2008.

Gilad Gour,A. Roy, Quantum state tomography and 2-designs (invited), 2008 SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Burlington, Vermont, 16 Jun 2008 - 19 Jun 2008.

Raymond Laflamme, NMR Quantum Computing, International Summer School in Quantum Information Processing and Control(QUIC 2007). National University of Ireland, Maynooth August 26th-31st 2007.

Barry Sanders, Implementation of quantum information protocols, International Summer School in Quantum Information Processing and Control(QUIC 2007). National University of Ireland, Maynooth August 26th-31st 2007.

Alain Tapp - Camp Info DIRO August 2007, Montreal.

Richard Cleve, Quantum Algorithms I, II, and III, Seventh Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information Processing (Waterloo, May 27-31,2007)

Joseph Emerson, Characterization of Noisy Quantum Systems for Quantum Information, Second Mexican School of Summer in Computation and Quantum Information
9-20 July, 2007. Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México.

Alain Tapp - Camp Info DIRO August 2006, Montreal.

Ashwin Nayak, Applications of quantum information theory, Sixth Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information Processing (Calgary, 2006)