Friday Feb. 18
7:30-8:25 Breakfast (provided)

Session 1: Ion Traps (Chair: Liebfried)
8:25-8:30 Welcome
8:30-9:00 Chiaverini, "Simple algorithms implemented in a scalable trapped-ion quantum processor"
9:00-9:30 Berkeland, "Quantum simulations with trapped strontium ions"

9:30-10:00 Morning Break (provided)

Tutorial: (Chair: Geremia)
10:00-11:00 Chuang, "Lessons from NMR for quantum computation"

Session 2: Quantum Information Theory I (Chair: Caves)
11:00-11:30 Bacon,"Optimal measurements for the dihedral hidden subgroup problem"
11:30-12:00 Gurvits, "Convex geometry of quantum entanglement"

12:00-2:00 Lunch (provided)

Invited Talk: (Chair: Wineland)
2:00-2:45 Steane, "How to build a 300 bit, 1 Gop quantum computer"

Session 3: Quantum Measurement and Signal Processing (Chair: Ghose)
2:45-3:15 Smith/Chaudhury, "Probing the Spin Degrees of Freedom of Cold Atom Ensembles"

3:15-3:45 Afternoon break (provided)

3:45-4:15 Silberfarb, "Quantum state reconstruction via continuous measurement"
4:15-4:45 Geremia, "Optimal discrimination of optical coherent ctates using feedback control"
4:45-5:15 Hawley, "Nondemolition measurement of single spin state for quantum computation based on optically detected magnetic resonance"

6:00-7:30 Poster session

7:30- Dinner (on your own)

 

Saturday Feb. 19
7:30-8:30 Breakfast (provided)

Session 4: Quantum Communications 1 (Chair: Nordholt)
8:30-9:00 Hughes, "Quantum key distribution in optical fiber networks"
9:00 -9:30 Raymer, "Engineered pure-state single-photon wave-packets"

9:30-10:00 Morning Break (provided)

Tutorial:
10:00-11:00 Spekkens, "Quantum information meets quantum foundations"

Session 5: Quantum Information Theory II (Chair Bacon)
11:00-11:30 Szkopek, "Threshold error penalty for fault tolerant computation with nearest neighbour communication"
11:30-12:00 Flammia, "Entanglement and the Power of One Qubit"

12:00-2:00 Lunch (provided)

Invited Talk: (Chair: Goodkind)
2:00-2:45 Schoelkopf , "Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Doing Quantum Optics on a Chip"

Session 6: Solid State and Electronics (Chair: Raymer)
2:45-3:15 Gibbs, "Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in a photonic crystal nanocavity"
3:15-3:45 Goodkind, " Progress fabricating qubits using electrons on helium"

3:45-4:15 Afternoon break (provided)

4:15-4:45 Waks, "Cavity-waveguide interaction in photonic crystals"
4:45-5:15 Guney, "Implementation of entanglement and quantum logic gate operations using three-dimensional photonic crystal single-mode cavity"
5:15-5:45 Yao, "Design of solid-state nanodot-cavity-waveguide system for quantum computation and quantum information processing"

7:00- Banquet

 

 

Sunday Feb. 20

7:30-8:30 Breakfast (provided)

Session 7: Cold atoms (Chair: Boshier)
8:30-9:00 Lev, "Magnetic microtraps for cavity QED, BECs, and atom optics"
9:00-9:30 Chou, "Storage time of a quantum memory in an ensemble of cold atoms"

Invited: (Chair: Deutsch)
9:30-10:15 Molmer, "Quantum information with continuous variables"

10:15-10:45 Morning Break (provided)

Session 8: Quantum Communications II (Chair: Hughes)
10:45-11:15 Sanders, "Remote entanglement distribution"
11:15-11:45 Wodkiewicz, "Fidelity of noisy quantum channels"
11:45-12:15 Spedalieri, "Exploiting the quantum Zeno effect to beat photon loss in linear
optical quantum information processors"