QIP Seminar Series
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Location |
Cosponsor |
| May 2012 | Harry Buhrman [Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica] |
TBD | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 31 October 2011 | Fernando Brandao [Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais] |
Random quantum circuits are approximate polynomial-designs | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 19 December 2011 | Matthias Christandl [ETH Zurich] |
Reliable Quantum State Tomography | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| TBA | Peter Høyer [University of Calgary] |
TBD | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 21 November 2011 | Mary Beth Ruskai [Tufts University] |
Some old and new results on quantum marginals and reduced density matrices | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| TBA | Eduardo Novais [Federal University of ABC] |
Adversarial noise models to Quantum Error Correction: what are the limits of the "threshold theorem" | University of British Columbia | Quantum Information |
| 11 April 2011 | Sophie Schirmer [University of Cambridge] |
Optimal Control of Dissipative Dynamics: Markovian vs Non-Markovian systems | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 6 April 2011 | Daniel Gottesman [Perimeter Institute] |
Spin Glasses and Computational Complexity | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 4 April 2011 | Cris Moore [University of New Mexico] |
The McEliece cryptosystem resists quantum Fourier sampling attacks | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 21 March 2011 | Frédéric Dupuis [ETH Zurich] |
Secure two-party quantum computation against specious adversaries | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 28 February 2011 | Eric Chitamber [University of Toronto] |
Local Transformations of Quantum States Requiring Infinite Rounds of Classical Communication | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 4 February 2011 | Shmuel Friedland [University of Illinois at Chicago] |
Some results concerning separable states in QIT | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 19 January 2011 | Neil Lovett [University of Leeds] |
The discrete time quantum walk: Universality, transport and searching | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 29 November 2010 | Mark Wilde [McGill University] |
Entanglement boosts quantum turbo codes | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 27 October 2010 | Rob Spekkens [Perimeter Institute] |
Specker's parable of the overprotective seer: Implications for Contextuality, Nonlocality and Complementarity | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 20 October 2010 | Mark Byrd [Southern Illinois University] |
Control and Error Prevention in Quantum Computing Devices | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 10 March 2010 | Andrew Childs [University of Waterloo] |
Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 1 March 2010 | Edward Farhi [MIT] |
Quantum Adiabatic Algorithms, Small Gaps, and Different Paths (tentative) | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 10 February 2010 | Marcos de Oliveira [Universidade Estadual de Campinas] |
Strong superadditivity and monogamy of the Renyi measure of entanglement |
University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 8 February 2010 | Martin Roetteler [NEC Laboratories America] |
Quantum algorithms for highly non-linear Boolean functions | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 11 January 2010 | William Slofstra [UC Berkeley] |
Entanglement in XOR non-local games | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 7 Dec 2009 | William Wootters [Williams College] |
The Entanglement Cost of a Nonlocal Measurement | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 2 Dec 2009 | Stephen Bartlett [University of Sydney] |
Quantum computation via measurements on the low-temperature state | Université de Sherbrooke | |
| 27 Nov 2009 | Benoit Collins [University of Ottawa] |
Free probability and quantum information theory | McGill University | |
| 25 Nov 2009 | Stephen Bartlett [University of Sydney] |
Quantum computational phases of matter | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 11 Nov 2009 | Steve Flammia [Perimeter Institute, Waterloo] |
Ultra Fast Quantum State Tomography | McGill University | |
| 4 Nov 2009 | Steve Flammia [Perimeter Institute, Waterloo] |
Ultra Fast Quantum State Tomography | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 7 Apr 2009 | Herschel Rabitz [Department of Chemistry, Princton University] |
Hiking over quantum control landscapes | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 3 Apr 2009 | Michele Mosca [Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo] |
Quantum information and its application to cryptography | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 26 Jan 2009 | Sean Hallgren [Penn State University] |
University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing | |
| 19 Jan 2009 | Frederic Magniez [École Polytechnique] |
University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing | |
| 12 Dec 2008 | Marlan Scully [Texas A&M University and Princeton University] |
Using quantum mechanics to detect anthrax | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 11 Dec 2008 | Hans Briegel [Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck; Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences] |
Entanglement in quantum many-body systems far away from equilibrium: Are there non-trivial quantum effects in biology? | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 10 Nov 2008 | Jonathan Oppenheim [University of Cambridge] |
University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing | |
| 7 Nov 2008 | Howard Barnum [Los Alamos National Laboratory] |
Quantum Information | McGill University | School of Computer Science |
| 3 Nov 2008 | Daniel Browne [University of London] |
University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing | |
| 14 Jan 2008 | Gorjan Alagic [University of Connecticut] |
Quantum Algorithms for Product Groups | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 26 Nov 2007 | Troy Lee [Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique in Orsay, France] |
Product theorems for discrepancy | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 29 Oct 2007 | Ben Toner [CWI Amsterdam] |
The Unique Games Conjecture with Entangled Provers is False | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
| 20 Jun 2007 | Konrad Banaszek [Nicolaus Copernicus University] | Protecting an optical qubit against photon loss | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 4 Jun 2007 | Joerg Schmiedmayer [Atominstitut der österreichischen Universitäten] | Quantum Interconnecting Atoms and Photons | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 31 May 2007 | Vladimír Bužek [Research Center for Quantum Information, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences] | Quantum observations: reconstruction of quantum states and processes | University of Calgary | Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| 28 May 2007 | Renato Renner [University of Cambridge] |
On the impossibility of extracting randomness from partially untrusted quantum devices | University of Waterloo | Institute for Quantum Computing |
