The schedule for the seventh annual SQuInT workshop is now online:
Friday Feb. 18
7:30-8:25 Breakfast (provided)
Session 1: Ion Traps
8:25-8:30 Welcome
8:30-9:00 Chiaverini, “Simple algorithms implemented in a scalable trapped-ion quantum processor”
9:00-9:30 Berkeland, “Quantum simulations with trapped strontium ions”
9:30-10:00 Morning Break (provided)
Tutorial:
10:00-11:00 Chuang, “Lessons from NMR for quantum computation”
Session 2: Quantum Information Theory
11:00-11:30 Bacon,”Optimal measurements for the dihedral hidden subgroup problem”
11:30-12:00 Gurvits, “Convex geometry of quantum entanglement”
12:00-2:00 Lunch (provided)
Invited Talk:
2:00-2:45 Steane, TBA
Session 3: Quantum Measurement and Signal Processing
2:45-3:15 Williams, “Quantum signal processing”
3:15-3:45 Afternoon break (provided)
3:45-4:15 Silberfarb, “Quantum state reconstruction via continuous measurement”
4:15-4:45 Geremia, “Optimal discrimination of optical coherent ctates using feedback control”
4:45-5:15 Hawley, “Nondemolition measurement of single spin state for quantum computation based on optically detected magnetic resonance”
6:00-7:30 Poster session
7:30- Dinner (on your own)
Saturday Feb. 19
7:30-8:30 Breakfast (provided)
Session 4: Quantum Communications 1
8:30-9:00 Hughes, “Quantum key distribution in optical fiber networks”
9:00 -9:30 Raymer, “Engineered pure-state single-photon wave-packets”
9:30-10:00 Morning Break (provided)
Tutorial:
10:00-11:00 Spekkens, TBA
Session 5: Fault Tolerance
11:00-11:30 Szkopek, “Threshold error penalty for fault tolerant computation with nearest neighbour communication”
11:30-12:00 Eastin, “Fault tolerance for restricted error models”
12:00-2:00 Lunch (provided)
Invited Talk:
2:00-2:45 Schoelkopf , TBA
Session 6: Solid State and Electronics
2:45-3:15 Gibbs, “Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in a photonic crystal nanocavity”
3:15-3:45 Goodkind, ” Progress fabricating qubits using electrons on helium”
3:45-4:15 Afternoon break (provided)
4:15-4:45 Waks, “Cavity-waveguide interaction in photonic crystals”
4:45-5:15 Guney, “Implementation of entanglement and quantum logic gate operations using three-dimensional photonic crystal single-mode cavity”
5:15-5:45 Yao, “Design of solid-state nanodot-cavity-waveguide system for quantum computation and quantum information processing”
7:00- Banquet
Sunday Feb. 20
7:30-8:30 Breakfast (provided)
Session 7: Cold atoms
8:30-9:00 Lev, “Magnetic microtraps for cavity QED, BECs, and atom optics”
9:00-9:30 Chou, “Storage time of a quantum memory in an ensemble of cold atoms”
Invited:
9:30-10:15 Molmer, TBA
10:15-10:45 Morning Break (provided)
Session 8: Quantum Communications 2
10:45-11:15 Sanders, “Remote entanglement distribution”
11:15-11:45 Wodkiewicz, “Fidelity of noisy quantum channels”
11:45-12:15 Spedalieri, “Exploiting the quantum Zeno effect to beat photon loss in linear
optical quantum information processors”
What I love about SQuInT is that (1) there are both theory and experiment talks and (2) having gone to all of the SQuInTs except the pre-SQuInTs, I get to witness the slow stead experimental progress in building a quantum computer.