SCHEDULE Click date below to obtain daily schedule	Monday, July 19 Tuesday, July 20 Wednesday, July 21 Thursday, July 22 Friday, July 23 Poster Sessions
Monday, July 19, 2004 Poster Sessions
8:00 - 8:40	Registration (with Coffee and Refreshments)
8:40 - 8:45	Barbara Keyfitz, Director, The Fields Institute Welcome and Introduction
8:45 - 9:00	Peter Shor, MIT Chair's Remarks
9:00 - 9:50	Keynote Charles Bennett, IBM Back Communication and Forward Capacities of Quantum Channels
9:50-10:30	David DiVincenzo, IBM Research Control and decoherence in Josephson junction qubits
10:30-10:55	Coffee Break
10:55-11:35	Richard Cleve, University of Calgary Consequences and Limits of Nonlocal Strategies
11:35-12:15	Ari Mizel, Penn State University Teleportation in ground state quantum computation Presentation (.pdf)
12:15-3:00	lunch break
3:00-3:15	Brian King, McMaster University Chair's Remarks
3:15-3:55	Mark Dykman, Michigan State University Localizing excitations in a quantum computer with perpetually coupled qubits
3:55-4:35	Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin Silicon/Silicon-Germanium for Quantum Computation
4:35-5:00	coffee break
Contributed talks - parallel sessions
5:00-6:00 BA1130	Quantum Computation and Information- chair: Brian King, McMaster University 5:00-J.D. Franson, Johns Hopkins University Quantum Computing Using Single Photons and the Zeno Effect 5:20-Tommaso Calarco, University of Innsbruck Exploiting quantum control for quantum computation in optical lattices: marker atoms and molecular interactions (Presentation).pdf Presentation (.ppt) 5:40-Stephen Bartlett, The University of Queensland Non-destructive weak measurement of a photonic qubit
5:00-6:00 FI230	Quantum Control - chair: Paul Brumer, University of Toronto 5:00-Robert Badzey, Boston University Quantum Coherent Effects in the Presence of External Control Fields 5:20-Arlene D. Wilson-Gordon, Bar-Ilan University Highly efficient frequency conversion in double lambda systems without maximal atomic coherence Presentation (.pdf) Presentation (.ppt) 5:40-Timothy F. Havel, MIT Quantum Control of Spin Systems by NMR Presentation (.pdf)
	Reception and Poster Session at Fields
*Tuesday, July 20, 2004*
8:15 - 8:45	Morning coffee and refreshments
8:45-9:00	Mike Mosca, University of Waterloo Chair's Remarks
9:00-9:50	Keynote Gilles Brassard, Université de Montréal A Quarter of Century of Quantum Cryptography
9:50-10:30	Claude Crepeau, McGill University Cryptography in a Quantum World (URL Link to Presentation)
10:30-10:55	coffee break
10:55-11:35	Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute High Fidelity to Low Weight Presentation (.pdf) Presentation (.ppt)
11:35-12:15	Norbert Lütkenhaus, University of Erlangen Quantum Correlations in Quantum Cryptography Presentation (.pdf)
12:15-3:00	lunch break
3:00-3:15	Kiyoshi Tamaki, The Perimeter Institute Chair's Remarks
3:15-3:55	Christian Kurtsiefer, University of Munich Tools for Experimental Quantum Cryptography Presentation (.pdf)
3:55-4:35	Peter Shor, MIT TBA
4:35-5:00	coffee break
Contributed talks - parallel sessions
5:00-6:00 BA1130	Quantum Computation and Information -chair: Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto 5:00 - Barry C. Sanders, University of Calgary Optical quantum fingerprinting Presentation (.pdf) Presentation (.ppt) 5:20 - Kai Chen, University of Toronto Conference key-agreement and secret sharing through noisy GHZ states Presentation (.pdf) Presentation (.ppt) 5:40 - Kiyoshi Tamaki, Perimeter Institute Unconditional Security of the Bennett 1992 quantum key-distribution protocol over a lossy and noisy channel Presentation (.pdf) Presentation (.ppt)
5:00-6:00 FI230	Quantum Cryptography - chair: Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto 5:00- Philip Walther, University of Vienna Quantum Logics using Four-Photon Entanglement 5:20 - Anatoly Yu. Smirnov, D-Wave Systems Inc. Decoherence and noise control in strongly driven superconducting quantum bits Presentation(.pdf) 5:40 - Sergey Babichev, University of Konstanz Continuous-variable experiments with a nonlocal single photon
	Poster Session
*Wednesday, July 21, 2004*
8:15-8:45	Morning coffee and refreshments
8:45-9:00	David Tannor, The Weizmann Institute of Science Chair's Remarks
9:00-9:50	Keynote Stuart A. Rice, The University of Chicago Variations on Adiabatic Passage in Optical Control of Molecular Processes
9:50-10:30	Gershon Kurizki, The Weizmann Institute of Science A Unified Approach to Dynamical Control of Decoherence Presentation (.pdf)
10:30 - 10:55	Coffee break
10:55-11:35	Ronnie Kosloff, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Quantum molecular computing: Optimal control theory for unitary transformations Presentation (.pdf)
11:35-12:15	Herschel Rabitz, Princeton University The Landscape for Controlling Quantum Phenomena
12:15-1:45	Lunch Break
1:45-2:00	Chair's comments (Robert Gordon)
2:00-2:40	Philip H. Bucksbaum, FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan Control Analysis based on Learning Feedback Experiments
2:40-3:20	Thomas Baumert, Universitaet Kassel Quantum control in intense phase shaped laser fields
3:20-3:45	Coffee break
Contributed talks - parallel sessions
3:45-4:45 BA1170	Quantum Control - chair: Robert Gordon, University of Illinois at Chicago 3:45- Victor S. Batista, Yale Universisty Creating molecular entanglement in functionalized semiconductor nanostructures Presentation (.pdf)Presentation (.ppt) 4:05- Dan Oron, Weizmann Institute of Science All-optical processing in coherent nonlinear spectroscopy Presentation (.pdf 4:25 - Ioannis Thanopoulos, Weizmann Institute of Science - Quantum Coherent Control of Current and Chiral Cat States
3:45-4:45 FI230	Quantum Cryptography - chair: Kiyoshi Tamaki, The Perimeter Institute 3:45 - Jean Christian Boileau, University of Waterloo Polarization-Based Quantum Key Distribution Without Shared Reference Frame Presentation (.pdf)Presentation (.ppt) 4:05 - J.A.Vaccaro, University of Hertfordshire Secure quantum protocols for voting 4:25- Debbie Leung, Institute of Quantum Information A systematics derivation of measurement-based schemes for quantum computation Presentation (.ppt) Presentation (.pdf)
4:45-5:00	Coffee Break
5:00-6:00 BA1170	Quantum Computation and Information - chair: Timothy Havel, MIT 5:00 - Dan Browne, Imperial College Efficient linear optics quantum computation with Bell States Presenation(.pdf) 5:20 - Jose M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal - Theoretical Methods and Experimental Implementation of Heat-Bath Algorithmic Cooling Presenation(.pdf) 5:40 Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay, University of Toronto Entangling capacities of noisy non-local Hamiltonians
5:00-6:00 FI230	Quantum Error Correction - chair: Daniel Lidar, University of Toronto 5:00 - Kaveh Khodjasteh, University of Toronto Concatenated Dynamical Decoupling Pulse Sequences 5:20 - Masoud Mohseni, University of Toronto Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with the Exchange Interaction 5:40 Robert Raussendorf, Caltech Fault-tolerant quantum computation using graph states Presentation (.pdf)
	Poster Session
*Thursday, July 22, 2004*
8:15-8:45	Morning coffee and refreshments
8:45-9:00	Dave Bacon, Caltech Chair's remarks
9:00-9:50	Keynote Manny Knill, NIST Postselected Quantum Computation Presentation (.pdf)
9:50-10:30	Robert Alicki, University of Gdansk Is quantum error correction feasible? Presentation(.pdf)
10:30-10:55	coffee break
10:55-11:35	Vwani Roychowdhury, UCLA TBA
11:35-12:15	David Meyer, UCSD Topological Quantum Codes
12:15-1:45	lunch break
1:45-2:00	Lorenza Viola, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chair's Remarks
2:00-2:40	Raymond Laflamme, University of Waterloo Experimental quantum error correction
2:40-2:45	Break/room switch
2:45-3:25	Hideo Mabuchi, Caltech - Lecture to be held in BA1170 TBA
3:20-3:45	coffee break
Contributed talks - parallel sessions
3:45-4:45 BA1170	Quantum Error Correction - chair: Lorenza Viola, Los Alamos National Laboratory 3:45 Charlene Ahn, Caltech Quantum error correction for continuously detected errors Presentation 4:05 - Chikako Uchiyama, University of Yamanashi Non-Markovian Effect and Control of Quantum Information 4:25 - Antonio Di Lisi, University of Salerno Closed loop techniques for decoherence control and entanglement manipulation
3:45-4:45 FI230	Quantum Control - chair: Howard Wiseman, Griffith University 3:45 - Robert Kosut, SC Solutions Quantum Tomography and Detection: Design via Convex Optimization 4:05 - Vladimir S. Malinovsky, University of Michigan Quantum control of entanglement by phase manipulation 4:25 - Jiangbin Gong, University of Chicago - FI230 Entanglement-assisted Coherent Control in Bimolecular Scattering Presentation (.pdf) Presentation (.ppt)
4:45-5:00	coffee break
5:00-6:00 BA1170	Quantum Computation and Information - chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary 5:00 - Hilary Carteret, Université de Montréal Preparing high purity entangled states for NMR quantum computing 5:20- Shohini Ghose, University of Calgary Entanglement Dynamics in a Chaotic System 5:40 - Ashwin Nayak, University of Waterloo A quantum algorithm for the Ising model
5:00-6:00 FI230	Quantum Control - chair: Victor Batista, Yale University 5:00 - Howard Wiseman, Griffith University Feedback Control of Open Quantum Systems with Linear Dynamics: Recent Results (Presentation) .pdf 5:20- Ignacio Franco, University of Toronto Coherent Control of Change Transport in Photoexcitied trans-Polyacetylene (Presentation) .pdf 5:40- Yossi Elran, University of Toronto Decoherence in an Anharmonic Oscillator Coupled to a Thermal Bath
6:30 p.m.	Banquet dinner at Golden Mile restaurant
*Friday, July 23, 2004*
8:15-8:45	Morning coffee and refreshments
8:45-9:00	Chair's comments
9:00-9:40	Aephraim M. Steinberg, University of Toronto Shedding a Bit of Information on Light: Measurement and Manipulation of Quantum States Presentation (.pdf) Presentation (.ppt)
9:40-10:20	Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto Extending the distance of unconditionally secure quantum key distribution (Presentation) .pdf Presentation (.ppt)
10:20-10:45	coffee break
10:45-11:25	Paul Brumer, University of Toronto TBA
11:25-12:05	Daniel Lidar, University of Toronto Hybrid quantum error prevention, reduction, and correction method Presentation (.pdf) Presentation (.ppt)
12:05-12:55	CQIQC Keynote Lecture Marlan Scully, Texas A & M University TBA

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Quantum Information and Quantum Control Conference July 19- 23, 2004 held at the University of Toronto and the Fields Institute

Quantum Information and Quantum Control Conference
July 19- 23, 2004

held at the University of Toronto and the Fields Institute