KITP Conference: New Directions in the Quantum Control Landscape

KITP Conference: New Directions in the Quantum Control Landscape (Feb 25 - Mar 1, 2013)
Coordinators: Ivan Deutsch, Lorenza Viola
Scientific Advisors: Gerard Milburn, Paul Corkum, Konrad Lehnert

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Monday, February 25, 2013
	Welcome from KITP Director and Organizers
9:15am	Lars Bildsten, Ivan Deutsch Lorenza Viola, Gerard Milburn	Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
	Quantum Control and Simulation with Cold Atoms, Chair: Gerard Milburn (Univ. Queensland)
9:30am	David J. Wineland (NIST Boulder)	Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schroedinger's Cat[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Peter Zoller (Univ. Innsbruck)	Quantum Simulation of Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories with Cold Atoms[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Poul Jessen (Univ. Arizona)	Quantum Control of Atomic Qudits[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Quantum Control and Quantum Information, Chair: Tommaso Calarco (Ulm Univ.)
2:00pm	Carlton Caves (UNM)	Quantum control: a circuit-based classification[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Barry Sanders (Univ. Calgary)	Efficient Algorithm for Designing Universal Quantum Circuits to Simulate Efficiently Open-system Quantum Dynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Christiane Koch (Univ. Kassel)	Optimal Control Theory for Quantum Gates in Open Quantum Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	John Preskill (Caltech)	Protected Gates for Superconducting Qubits[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
	Superconducting and Hybrid Control Systems, Chair: Konrad Lehnert (JILA)
9:00am	John Martinis (UCSB)	Design of a Superconducting Quantum Computer[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Frank Wilhelm-Mauch (Saarland Univ.)	Making Optimal Control Work for Superconducting Qubits[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Irfan Siddiqi (UC Berkeley)	Quantum Feedback in a Superconducting Qubit[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Cindy Regal (JILA)	Observing Radiation Pressure Shot Noise on a Solid Object[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Optimal Quantum Control: Theory and Applications, Chair: Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew Univ.)
2:00pm	David Tannor (Weizmann Inst.)	Designing Laser Pulses to Control Photochemical Reactions: Two New Pieces of the Puzzle[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Sophie Schirmer (Swansea Univ.)	Applications of Optimal Control and Reservoir Engineering[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break/POSTERS
5:15pm	Steffen Glaser (TUM)	Robust Optimal Control of Spins in Spectroscopy and Beyond[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6:00pm	RECEPTION
	Poster Session
	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
	Quantum Optics, Networks, and Quantum Feedback, Chair: Josh Combes (UNM)
9:00am	Matthew James (ANU)	Quantum Feedback Networks[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Hideo Mabuchi (Stanford Univ.)	Nanophotonic Circuit Architectures to Exploit Strong Coupling and Optical Coherence[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Ataç Imamoglu (ETH Zürich)	Quantum Photonics: Prospects for Quantum Control in Nano-photonic Structures[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Eleftherios Goulielmakis (MPQ)	Attosecond Quantum Control with Synthesized Transients of Light[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Quantum Noise and Thermodynamics, Chair: Peter Zoller (Univ. Innsbruck)
2:00pm	Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew Univ.)	Noise and Controllability: Suppression of Controllability Due to Noise in the Control Fields[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Michael Biercuk (Univ. Sydney)	Filtering Classical Noise by Quantum Control[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Gershon Kurizki (Weizmann Inst.)	Thermodynamic Bounds Under Quantum Control[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Herschel Rabitz (Princeton Univ.)	Quantum Control and Chemistry: Learning from Each Other[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Thursday, February 28, 2013
	Controlling Resonances in Sensing and Biology, Chair: Martin Plenio (Ulm Univ.)
9:00am	Hans Briegel (Univ. Innsbruck)	Quantum Agents, Simulation, and Biology[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Paul Brumer (Univ. of Toronto)	Coherence, Decoherence and Incoherence in Natural Light Harvesting Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
	Quantum Coherence and Control in Biological Systems, Chair: Martin Plenio (Ulm Univ.)
11:00am	David Jonas (Univ. Colorado)	Can Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Have A Quantum Efficiency Approaching Unity?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Dwayne Miller (MPSD/Hamburg and Univ. Toronto)	Do We Live In A Quantum World? A New Twist[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Quantum Measurement and Sensing, Chair: Michael Biercuk (Univ. Sydney)
2:00pm	Klaus Molmer (Univ. Aarhus)	State and Parameter Estimation with Continuous Quantum Measurements[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Martin Plenio (Ulm Univ.)	Quantum Control for Quantum Sensing and Simulation[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Luiz Davidovich (UFRJ, Brazil)	Quantum Metrology of Open Dynamical Systems: Precision Limits Through Environmental Control[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Paola Cappellaro (MIT)	Control of Quantum Sensors[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION
	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Friday, March 01, 2013
	Ultrafast and Intense-Fields Quantum Control, Chair: Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley)
9:00am	Margaret Murnane (JILA)	Quantum Control in Extreme Environments[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Beatrice Chatel (CNRS/Toulouse)	New Frontiers for Control Schemes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Howard Wiseman (Griffith Univ.)	Quantum-enhanced Optical-phase Tracking[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Keith Nelson (MIT)	Terahertz Coherent Control[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Control of Many-body Systems, Chair: Klaus Molmer (Univ. Aarhus)
2:00pm	Daniel Lidar (USC)	Theoretical and Experimental Error Correction of Programmable Quantum Annealing[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Brian Demarco (UIUC)	Controlled Dynamics in Disordered Quantum Gases[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Simone Montangero (Univ. Ulm)	Control of Many-body Quantum Dynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Posters
	Charles Baldwin (Univ. New Mexico)	Ultrafast Quantum Process Tomography via Continuous Measurement and Convex Optimization
	Ben Baragiola (Univ. New Mexico)	N-Photon Wave Packets Interacting with an Arbitrary Quantum System
	P. Campagne-Ibarcq (LPA-ENS) et al.	Controlling the Trajectory of a Superconducting Qubit by Measurement Based Feedback
	Robert Cook (Univ. New Mexico)	Single Shot Quantum State Estimation Via Continuous Measurement in a Strong Back-action Regime
	Wei Cui (RIKEN)	Quantum State Estimation in a Circuit QED Using Feedback Control
	Antonina N. Fedorova (IPME RAS)	From Quantum Points to Pattern Formation in Wigner Framework, 1: Quantum States as Sheaves
	Antonina Fedorova (IPME RAS)	From Quantum Points to Pattern Formation in Wigner Framework, 2: Dynamics and Control via Multiresolution
	Chris Ferrie (Univ. Waterloo)	Robust Online Hamiltonian Learning
	Michael Goerz (Univ. Kassel)	Optimal Control of Transmon Qubit Gates in the Presence of Decoherence[Poster]
	Matthew Grace (Sandia Nat'l Lab)	Robust quantum gates via sequential convex programming
	Felipe Herrera (Purdue Univ.) et al.	Entanglement Creation in Cold Molecular Gases Using Strong Laser Pulses
	Joseph Kerckhoff (JILA) et al.	Controlling a Mechanical Oscillator with a Tunable Coherent Feedback Network[Poster]
	Faisal Shah Khan (Khalifa Univ.)	Gaming the Quantum for Control[Poster]
	Yasushi Kondo (Kinki Univ.)	Concatenated Composite Pulses Compensating Simultaneous Systematic Errors[Poster]
	Leigh Norris (Univ. Windsor)	Enhanced Squeezing of a Collective Spin via Control of its Qudit Subsystems
	Gerardo Paz Silva (USC)	Quantum Control and Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing
	Chitra Rangan (Univ. Windsor)	Surface enhanced quantum control of a two-level system
	Barry Sanders (Univ. Calgary) et al.	Learning Algorithms for Designing Efficient, Precise, Robust, Single-shot, Quantum- enhanced, adaptive parameter estimation policies
	Alireza Shabani (USC)	Wavefunction Video Camera: Monitoring Dynamics of a Complex Quantum System Inside a Cavity

Monday, February 25, 2013

Quantum Control and Simulation with Cold Atoms, Chair: Gerard Milburn (Univ. Queensland)

Quantum Control and Quantum Information, Chair: Tommaso Calarco (Ulm Univ.)

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Superconducting and Hybrid Control Systems, Chair: Konrad Lehnert (JILA)

Optimal Quantum Control: Theory and Applications, Chair: Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew Univ.)

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Quantum Optics, Networks, and Quantum Feedback, Chair: Josh Combes (UNM)

Quantum Noise and Thermodynamics, Chair: Peter Zoller (Univ. Innsbruck)

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Controlling Resonances in Sensing and Biology, Chair: Martin Plenio (Ulm Univ.)

Quantum Coherence and Control in Biological Systems, Chair: Martin Plenio (Ulm Univ.)

Quantum Measurement and Sensing, Chair: Michael Biercuk (Univ. Sydney)

Friday, March 01, 2013

Ultrafast and Intense-Fields Quantum Control, Chair: Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley)

Control of Many-body Systems, Chair: Klaus Molmer (Univ. Aarhus)