SQuInT Annual Workshop VIII

DAY 1 - Friday 17 February 2006

07:30 - 08:30	Breakfast (provided)
08:30 - 08:45	Welcome to SQuInT 06
SESSION 1	Optical Quantum Computing and Networking
08:45 - 09:30	Terry Rudolph (Imperial College - Invited Talk)
	Towards optical quantum computation with realistic devices
09:30 - 10:00	James Chin-wen Chou (Caltech)
	Measurement-Induced Entanglement for Excitation Stored in Remote Atomic Ensembles
10:00 - 10:30	Morning Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00	Thaddeus Ladd (Stanford)
	Practical Quantum Repeater using Intense Coherent Light
11:00 - 11:30	Danna Rosenberg (LANL)
	Quantum Key Distrtibution with Noise-Free Detectors
11:30 - 13:00	Lunch (provided)
SESSION 2	Quantum Measurement and Metrology
13:00 - 14:00	Hans Briegel (Innsbruck - Invited Tutorial)
	Graph states and the one-way quantum computer
14:00 - 14:30	Michael Di Rosa (LANL)
	Quantum Nondemolition Detection of Photons
14:30 - 15:00	Afternoon Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30	Ognyan Oreshkov (USC)
	Weak Measurements and Differential Conditions on Entanglement Monotones
15:30 - 16:00	Diego Dalvit (LANL)
	Sub-Planck Structures and Heisenberg-Limited Measurements
16:00 - 16:15	Break
SESSION 3	Qubits in Condensed Matter
16:15 - 17:00	Eva Weig (UCSB - Invited Talk)
	The role of dielectrics in superconducting quantum circuits
17:00 - 17:30	Wang Yao (UCSD)
	Electron Spin Decoherence by Interacting Nuclear Spins in Quantum Dots
17:30 - 18:00	Frank Verstraete (Caltech)
	Strongly correlated quantum many body systems: a quantum information perspective
18:00 - 19:30	Poster Session

DAY 2 - Saturday 18 February 2006

07:30 - 08:30	Breakfast (provided)
SESSION 4	Quantum Algorithms
08:30 - 09:00	Cristopher Moore (UNM)
	Hidden Subgroups and Fourier Sampling: A Tutorial
09:00 - 09:30	Dave Bacon (UW)
	New Algorithms for the Nonabelian Hidden Subgroup Problem
09:30 - 10:00	Morning Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30	Andrew Landahl (UNM)
	An Improved Quantum Algorithm for the Ordered Search Problem
10:30 - 11:00	Jonathan Walgate (Calgary)
	Quantum Buried Treasure
11:00 - 11:30	Tony Dutoi (UC Berkeley)
	Simulated Quantum Computation of Molecular Energies
11:30 - 13:15	Lunch (provided)
SESSION 5	Quantum Information Science with Atoms and Ions
13:15 - 14:00	Thad Walker (UW, Madison - Invited Talk)
	Quantum Manipulation of Atoms Using Rydberg States
14:00 - 14:30	Poul Jessen (Arizona)
	Progress towards quantum logic and real-time quantum state estimation
14:30 - 15:00	Matt Blain (Sandia)
	Microfabrication and Packaging of Ion Trap Chips for Quantum Simulation
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee Break
SESSION 6	Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
15:30 - 16:30	John Preskill (Caltech - Invited Tutorial)
	Topological Quantum Computing
16:30 - 17:00	Break
17:00 - 17:30	Bryan Eastin (UNM)
	Threshold Estimates for Arbitrary Error Channels
17:30 - 18:00	Robert Raussendorf (Caltech)
	A Fault-Tolerant One-Way Quantum Computer
18:00 - 19:00	Additional Poster Viewing Period
19:00 -	Conference Banquet

DAY 3 - Sunday 19 February 2006

07:30 - 08:30	Breakfast (provided)
SESSION 7	Trapped Ion Quantum Information
08:30 - 09:00	Roee Ozeri (NIST)
	Steps towards scalable trapped-ion QIP at NIST
09:00 - 09:30	Peter Maunz(Michigan)
	Quantum Information Processing with Ultrashort Pulses
SESSION 8	Fundamental Quantum Information Science
09:30 - 10:00	A.R.P. Rau (LSU)
	Geometric phase and general solution for N-level systems
10:00 - 10:30	Morning Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00	Brian Smith (Oregon)
	Photon Wave Mechanics
11:00 - 11:30	Shohini Ghose (Laurier)
	Non-Gaussian ancilla states for continuous variable quantum information processing
11:30 - 12:00	Masoud Mohensi (USC)
	Direct Characterization for Open Quantum Systems Dynamics
12:00 - 12:30	Boxed Lunches
12:30 - 13:00	Kurt Jacobs (LSU)
	Complementarity between work, entanglement and reference frame ability
13:00 - 13:30	Peter Love (DWave, Inc.)
	Entanglement in four superconducting qubits
13:30	End of Conference

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