| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9/17, 3:30 p.m. |
Stephen Jordan
Caltech & KITP |
Gadgets for Adiabatic Computing[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Ben Reichardt
Univ. Waterloo & KITP |
Span Programs and Quantum Algorithms[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/21, 12:15 p.m. |
Wim van Dam
UCSB & KITP |
The Current State of Quantum Algorithms[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
| 9/23, 3:30 p.m. |
Dmitry Gavinsky
NEC Laboratories America & KITP |
Predictive Quantum Learning[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/24, 3:30 p.m. |
Scott Aaronson
MIT & KITP |
Quantum Advice[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Steven Girvin
Yale |
Experimental Demonstration of Quantum Algorithms on a Two-Qubit Superconducting Processor[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/30, 3:30 p.m. |
Ronald de Wolf
CWI & KITP |
Classical Applications of Quantum Information Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/01, 3:30 p.m. |
Zeph Landau
UC Berkeley |
The Detectability Lemma: Making Sense of the Notion of Quantum Constraint Violation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/06, 11:00 a.m. |
Andrew Childs
Univ. Waterloo & KITP |
A Black Box Unitary Problem |
| 10/07, 3:30 p.m. |
Spyridon Michalakis
LANL & KITP |
Approximating the Ground State of Gapped Hamiltonians[Notes][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/08, 3:30 p.m. |
Sean Hallgren
Penn State |
Algorithms for Ray Class Groups and Hilbert Class Fields[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/13, 11:00 a.m. |
Elizabeth Behrman
WSU |
Quantum Neural Networks |
| 10/14, 3:30 p.m. |
Mark Howard
UCSB |
Tight Noise Thresholds for Quantum Computation with Perfect Stabilizer Operations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/15, 3:30 p.m. |
Peter Love
Haverford College |
Quantum Simulations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/19, 1:30 p.m. |
Falk Unger
UCB & KITP |
Discussion: Fault-tolerant Quantum Communication Complexity |
| 10/20, 11:00 a.m. |
Scott Cohen
Duquesne Univ. & KITP |
Discussion: The Difference between LOCC and Separable Measurements |
| 10/21, 3:30 p.m. |
Aram Harrow
Univ. Bristol & KITP |
Fast Quantum Algorithm for Solving Certain Systems of Linear Equations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Karyn Le Hur
Yale & KITP |
Qubit in the Quantum Many-Body World --- Entanglement Entropy, Decoherence, and the Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg-Majorana Riddle[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/26, 12:15 p.m. |
Debbie Leung
Univ. Waterloo & KITP |
Information, Quantum Information, and Quantum Information Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
| 10/26, 1:30 p.m. |
Mary Beth Ruskai
Arlington, MA & KITP |
Real Open Problem in Quantum Information Theory |
| 10/27, 11:00 a.m. |
Toby Cubitt
Univ. Bristol & KITP |
Discussion: Deriving Master Equations from Quantum Channels is NP-Hard |
| 10/28, 3:30 p.m. |
Hoi-Kwong Lo
Univ. of Toronto & KITP |
QKD -- Assumptions and Detection Efficiency Loophole[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/29, 3:30 p.m. |
Jonathan Oppenheim
Univ. of Cambridge & KITP |
Mutual Independence[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/03, 11:00 a.m. |
John Schliemann
Univ. Rengensburg & KITP |
Entanglement-like Correlations Between Indistinguishable Particles |
| 11/04, 3:30 p.m. |
Hans Mooij
Delft Univ. & KITP |
Quantum Simulation with Superconducting Flux Qubits[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/05, 3:30 p.m. |
Graeme Smith
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center & KITP |
Sending Quantum Information with Zero Capacity Channels[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/10, 11:00 a.m. |
Sarah Croke
Perimeter Inst. & KITP |
Streaming Universal Entanglement Concentration |
| 11/11, 3:30 p.m. |
Matthew Hastings
UCSB |
Making Almost Commuting Matrices Commute[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/12, 3:30 p.m. |
Todd Brun
USC & KITP |
Quantum Steganography[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Daniel Gottesman
Perimeter Inst. & KITP |
Computationally Hard Problems in Translationally-Invariant Spin Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/17, 11:00 a.m. |
Netanel Lindner
Technion & KITP |
A Photonic Cluster State Machine Gun[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/18, 10:30 a.m. |
Graeme Smith
(IBM & KITP)
Charles Bennett
(IBM & KITP)
Debbie Leung
(Univ. Waterloo & KITP) |
Discussion: Closed Timelike Curves -- What they're good or bad for[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Charles Bennett
IBM & KITP |
Quantum Information and the Birth and Death of Complexity[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Colloquium |
| 11/19, 3:30 p.m. |
Jake Taylor
NIST & KITP |
Entanglement and Metrology in Hybrid Quantum Systems[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Xuedong Hu
SUNY Buffalo & KITP |
Recent Progress in Silicon Based Quantum Computing[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/23, 11:00 a.m. |
Lin Tian
UC Merced & KITP |
Superconducting Resonators and Their Applications in Quantum Engineering[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/24, 11:00 a.m. |
Andrew Briggs
University of Oxford & KITP |
Outstanding Problems in Using Spin States for Practical Quantum Information Science[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/25, 11:00 a.m. |
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch
University of Waterloo & KITP |
Optimal Contol of Imperfect Qubits[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/30, 11:00 a.m. |
Frank Verstraete
Univ. Wien & KITP |
Quantum Metropolis Sampling[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/30, 2:15 p.m. |
Jens Eisert
Univ. Potsdam & KITP |
Learning Much from Little: Compressed Sensing Approach to Quantum State Tomography and Other Ideas of Systems Identification[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/30, 4:00 p.m. |
Massoud Borhani
SUNY at Buffalo |
Electrical Manipulation of the Electron Spin in a QD |
| 12/01, 11:30 a.m. |
Lieven Vandersypen
TU Delft |
Control of Electron and Nuclear Spins in GaAs Quantum Dots[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Ignacio Cirac
MPI & KITP |
Computational Complexity of Finding Ground States of Many-body Systems[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/01, 4:00 p.m. |
Daniel Loss
Univ. Basel & KITP |
Self-correcting Quantum Memories[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/02, 11:00 a.m. |
David DiVincenzo
IBM/Watson & KITP |
Cross Kerr Effect and other Quantum Optics with the Superconducting Ring Resonator[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Misha Lukin
Harvard & KITP |
Spin Quantum Bits in Diamond[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/02, 4:00 p.m. |
Ataç Imamoglu
ETH |
Resonant Optical Manipulation of Quantum Dot Electron and Nuclear Spins[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/03, 11:00 a.m. |
William Coish
Univ. Waterloo & KITP |
Spin-bath Decoherence: Old Results and New Surprises[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/03, 1:30 p.m. |
Amir Yacoby
Harvard |
Ultra long coherence of 2 electron logical spin qubits in GaAs quantum dots[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/03, 3:30 p.m. |
John Preskill
Caltech |
Protected Gates for Robust Superconducting Qubits[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/07, 11:00 a.m. |
Greg Fuchs, David Awschalom
UCSB |
Gigahertz Dynamics of a Strongly-Driven Single Spin in Diamond[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Charles Marcus
Harvard |
Progress Report on Spin Qubits[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/07, 4:00 p.m. |
Massoud Borhani
SUNY at Buffalo |
Electrical Manipulation of the Electron Spin in a QD |
| 12/08, 11:00 a.m. |
Peter Zoller
Univ. Innsbruck & KITP |
Quantum Optics-Solid State Hybrid Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Sankar Das Sarma
Univ. Maryland & KITP |
Spin Quantum Coherence[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12/09, 11:30 a.m. |
Jeremy Levy
Univ. Pittsburgh |
Oxide Nanoelectronics: A New Platform for Developing Quantum Information Technology[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
