| Monday August
8, 2011 |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Registration and Morning Coffee |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Introduction |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Chair: Hoi-Kwong Lo
Charles Bennett, IBM (in Bahen room 1160)
Information is Quantum---how physics has helped us understand what
information is and what can be done with it
|
| 12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:25 |
Chair: Aephraim M. Steinberg
Bell Award
|
| 14:30-15:10 |
Chair: Joseph H. Thywissen
Tzu-Chieh Wei, University of British Columbia
Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki states as
a resource for universal quantum computation
|
| 15:15-15:35 |
Chair: Joseph H. Thywissen
Peter Turner, University of Tokyo
The curious nonexistence of Gaussian
2-designs |
| 15:40-16:10 |
Coffee break |
| 16:10-16:50 |
Chair: Joseph H. Thywissen
Charles Bamber, National Research Council
Direct Measurement of the Quantum
Wavefunction
|
| 16:55-17:15 |
Chair: Joseph H. Thywissen
Christian Weedbrook, University of Toronto
Quantum Cryptography Approaching
the Classical Limit |
| 17:20-17:40 |
Chair: Joseph H. Thywissen
Shengjun Wu, University of Science and Technology of China
A general framework of weak measurement
and its application to optical non-linearlity |
| 19:00 |
Welcome Reception Duke
of York Pub , 39 Prince Arthur. |
| Tuesday August
9, 2011 |
| 8:45-9:15 |
Morning Coffee |
| 09:15-9:55 |
Chair: Kevin Resch
Marco Bellini, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica
Single-photon-level light manipulation
and amplification |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Chair: Kevin Resch
Brendon Higgins, University of Waterloo
Multiple-copy state discrimination:
Thinking globally, acting locally |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Coffee break |
| 10:55-11:35 |
Chair: Kevin Resch
Man-Duen Choi, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
My Personal Adventure in Quantum Wonderland
|
| 11:40-12:00 |
Chair: Kevin Resch
Iman Marvian, Perimeter Institute
Information-theoretic approach
to the study of symmetric dynamics |
| 12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:40 |
Chair: Paul Brumer
Alexandra Olaya-Castro, University College London
Quantum coherence in biology: facts,
fiction and challenges
|
| 14:45-15:25 |
Chair: Paul Brumer
Tomas Mancal, Charles University in Prague
Photoinduced dynamics in photosynthetic
complexes under incoherent light excitation |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Chair: Paul Brumer
Ahsan Nazir, Imperial College London
A variational master equation approach
to dissipative energy transfer dynamics |
| 15:55-16:15 |
Chair: Paul Brumer
Ioannis Thanopulos, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Coherent Control of Intramolecular
Energy Transfer in 24-mode Pyrazine |
| 16:15 |
Coffee break |
| |
Posters (poster presenters and abstracts)
L M Arevalo Aguilar, Victor V. Albert , Viacheslav Burenkov, John
Calsamiglia, Eric Chitambar, Artur Czerwinski, Ardavan Darabi, Hossein
Tavakoli Dinani, Greg Dmochowki, Francesca Fassioli, Amir Feizpour,
Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Savannah Garmon, Timur Grinev, Alex Hayat, Hoda
Hossein-Nejad, Claire Yu
|
| Wednesday August
10, 2011 |
| 8:45-9:15 |
Morning Coffee |
| 09:15-9:55 |
Chair: Man Duen Choi
Vladimir Korepin, Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics
Correlation Functions of 1 D anyons
|
| 10:00-10:20 |
Chair: Man Duen Choi
Clement Ampadu
On the Ambainis-Bach-Nayak-Vishwanath-Watrous
Conjecture |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Coffee break |
| 10:55-11:35 |
Chair: Man Duen Choi
Ben Buchler, The Australian National University
Gas-phase quantum memory
|
| 11:40-12:00 |
Chair: Man Duen Choi
Neil Sinclair, University of Calgary
Broadband waveguide quantum memory
for entangled photons |
| 12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Chair: Aephraim M. Steinberg
Bell Lecture by Sandu Popescu (Video
of the talk)
Virtual qubits, virtual temperatures,
and the foundations of thermodynamics
|
| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:10 |
Chair: Aephraim M. Steinberg
Robin Blume-Kohout, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tomography for fault-tolerance: confidence
regions for quantum hardware
|
| 16:15-16:35 |
Chair: Aephraim M. Steinberg
Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University
Analysis of multiqubit entanglement
and nonlocality for optimal quantum communication |
| 16:40-17:00 |
Chair: Aephraim M. Steinberg
Peter Rapcan, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Scavenging quantum information:
Multiple observations of quantum systems |
| 17:05-17:25 |
Chair: Aephraim M. Steinberg
Marco Piani, University of Waterloo
All non-classical correlations can be
activated into distillable entanglement |
| |
Conference Dinner- ticket purchase required |
| Thursday August
11, 2011 |
| 8:45-9:15 |
Morning Coffee |
| 09:15-9:55 |
Chair: Dvira Segal
Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Sciences
Quantum thermodynamics via measurements
on non-Markovian time scales
|
| 10:00-10:20 |
Chair: Dvira Segal
Lianao Wu, Universidad del País Vasco
Nondeterminstic fast ground state cooling
of a mechanical resonator |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Coffee break |
| 10:55-11:35 |
Chair: Dvira Segal
Jianshu Cao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Optimization of coherent energy transfer
in light-harvesting systems
|
| 11:40-12:00 |
Chair: Dvira Segal
Torsten Scholak, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
On the efficiency of excitonic energy
transport |
| 12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:40 |
Chair: Daniel James
Christine Silberhorn, University of Paderborn
Pulsed quantum states of light
for multi-mode quantum systems
|
| 14:45-15:25 |
Chair: Daniel James
Shigeki Takeuchi, Hokkaido University and Osaka University
Photonic quantum circuits and their
application |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Chair: Daniel James
Alberto Politi, University of Bristol
Integrated Quantum Photonics
|
| 15:55-16:15 |
Chair: Daniel James
Changliang Ren, Hiroshima University
Quantum tomography of photonic time -energy
entanglement by photon bunching with short-time reference pulses
|
| 16:15- |
Coffee break |
| |
Posters (poster
presenters and abstracts)
Piotr Kolenderski, Dawei Lu, Dylan Mahler, Iman Marvian, Leonardo A Pachon,
Nicolás Quesada, Roya Radgohar, Rebecca Ronke, Lee A. Rozema
Alexandr Sergeevich, Astha Sethi, Cathal Smyth, Yasaman Soudagar, Nathan
Wiebe, Mark M. Wilde , Xingxing Xing, Feihu Xu |
| Friday
August 12, 2011 |
| 8:45-9:15 |
Morning Coffee |
| 09:15-9:55 |
Chair: Harry Ruda
Adrian Lupascu, University of Waterloo
Quantum gates for superconducting
qubits with fixed coupling
|
| 10:00-10:20 |
Chair: Harry Ruda
Jordan Kyrikiadis, Dalhousie University
Optimal Trajectories for Quantum
Adiabatic Processing |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Coffee break |
| 10:55-11:35 |
Chair: Harry Ruda
Alexander Lvovsky, University of Calgary
Remote preparation of arbitrary
states of an atomic collective
|
| 11:40-12:00 |
Chair: Harry Ruda
Ben Sparkes, The Australian National University
Spectral Manipulation of Optical Pulses
Using the Gradient Echo Memory Scheme |
| 12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:40 |
Chair: Andrew White
David Kribs, University of Guelph
A family of norms with applications
in quantum information |
| 14:45-15:05 |
Chair: Andrew White
Marcus P. da Silva, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Practical characterization of quantum
devices without tomography |
| 15:10-15:40 |
Coffee break |
| 15:45-16:25 |
Chair: Andrew White
John Howell, University of Rochester
Weak Values and Precision Measurements
|
| 16:25-16:50 |
Chair: Andrew White
Dylan J. Saunders
The Power of Many Settings or
Many Outcomes in Experimental Demonstrations of EPR-Steering |
