Category: Quantum Computing

John Preskill writes to me about workshop being quickly organized in response to the release of a report by US National Science and Technology Council calling for a national initiative in quantum information science. I saw this report a while back and have some half written blog posts about it that I need to finish off. Anyway the workshop website is http://www.eas.caltech.edu/qis2009/index.html. Everyone in the quantum information science is invited to attend and the registration and deadlines are, like, almost now!
Here is the blurb from the website:

In January 2009, the United States National Science and Technology Council issued a report on A Federal Vision for Quantum Information Science. The report proposes that:

The United States … create a scientific foundation for controlling, manipulating, and exploiting the behavior of quantum matter, and for identifying the physical, mathematical, and computational capabilities and limitations of quantum information processing systems in order to build a knowledge base for this 21st century technology.

This Workshop on Quantum Information Science (QIS) has been organized in response to the NSTC report. It brings together leading theorists and experimenters drawn from physical science, computer science, mathematics, and engineering who will assess recent progress in QIS and identify major goals and challenges for future research.
The workshop will include open evening sessions so that all participants can express their views concerning the priorities for a national QIS initiative. The workshop will be followed by a report that will be submitted to the federal agencies that sponsor or perform QIS research.
Note: Deadline for workshop rate at the Marriott is Wednesday, April 8, 5:00pm EST.

A note from Ivan Deutsch, Secretary-Treasurer of the APS GQI topical group about the winners of the best student paper awards:

We are pleased to announce the Best Student Paper awards for the 2009 APS March Meeting. For the best experimental paper, the winner is
Eric Lucero, UCSB
for his paper J17.1, “High fidelity gates in Josephson phase qubits”.
For the best theoretical paper, the winner is
Lev Bishop, Yale University
for his paper V17.9, “Towards proving non-classicality with a 3-qubit GHZ state in circuit QED”.
Congratulations to the future Doctors Lucero and Bishop!

Dear Colleagues,
Online registration is now open for the 4th Workshop on Theory of Quantum
Computation, Communication and Cryptography (Waterloo, May 11-13, 2009) at
the following website:
http://www.iqc.ca/tqc2009
The deadline for early registration with a reduced registration fee is
March 29, 2009, which coincides with the deadline for booking
accommodation with guaranteed rate. Online registration will be closed
after May 3, 2009.
The program consists of invited talks, contributed talks, and poster
presentations.
(1) Invited speakers include:
Masato Koashi (Osaka University)
John Preskill (Caltech)
Miklos Santha (Universit Paris Sud)
Graeme Smith (IBM Watson)
Stephanie Wehner (Caltech)
(2) Contribuited talks include:
* Salah Aly. “Asymmetric Quantum Cyclic Codes”
* Cedric Beny. “A necessary condition for approximate quantum error
correction”
* Jean-Christian Boileau and Joseph Renes. “Optimal State Merging
Without Decoupling”
* Earl Campbell and Dan Browne. “Neither magical nor classical?”
* Wim van Dam and Qingqing Yuan. “Quantum algorithm for Online Memory
Checking”
* Demerson N. Gonalves, Renato Portugal and Carlos Magno Martins
Cosme. “Solutions to the Hidden Subgroup Problem on some Metacyclic
Groups”
* Min-Hsiu Hsieh and Mark Wilde. “Optimal trading of classical
communication, quantum communication, and entanglement”
* Takeshi Koshiba and Takanori Odaira. “Statistically-Hiding Quantum
Bit Commitment from Approximable-Preimage-Size Quantum One-Way Function”
* Michael Nathanson. “Asymptotic state discrimination with LOCC”
* Miguel Navascus, Masaki Owari and Martin B. Plenio. “Entanglement
Theory Applied”
* Miguel Navascus, Masaki Owari and Martin B. Plenio. “On the power of
PPT constraint in the symmetric extension test of the separability
problem”
* Masaki Owari, Martin B. Plenio, Eugene S. Polzik, Alessio Serafini
and Michael M. Wolf. “Quantum benchmarks for the teleportation and storage
of squeezed states for noisy squeezed states”
* Stefano Pirandola, Samuel Braunstein and Seth Lloyd. “On the
security and degradability of Gaussian channels”
* Jon Tyson. “Two-sided estimates of minimum-error distinguishability
of mixed quantum states via generalized Holevo-Curlander bounds”
* James Wootton, Ville Lahtinen and Jiannis Pachos. “Universal quantum
computation with a non-abelian topological memory”
For further details, such as the workshop program, registration,
accommodation and transportation, please refer to the workshop website:
http://www.iqc.ca/tqc2009
We look forward to seeing you in Waterloo.
Sincerely,
TQC 2009 Organizing Committee

Martin writes to tell me that there are student internships in quantum information technology available at NEC this summer (see here and here):

The Quantum IT group at NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ has summer internship positions available for graduate students interested in quantum computing. Areas of interest include:

• Quantum algorithms
• Quantum communication
• Quantum complexity
• Quantum cryptography
• Quantum error correction
• Quantum fault tolerance

More information about the Quantum IT group can be found at Quantum IT Group Website. Interested students can send their resume to internship [[[at]]] nec-labs.com and reference “Quantum-Intern” in the subject line.