The Quantum Pontiff

The list of contributed talks for QIP 2008 is now available:

Invited talks
Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University
Andris Ambainis, University of Waterloo and University of Latvia
Avraham Ben-Aroya, Tel-Aviv university
Patrick Hayden, McGill University
Oded Regev, Tel-Aviv University
Ben Reichardt, California Institute of Technology
Renato Renner, Cambridge
Falk Unger, CWI, Amsterdam
Michael Wolf, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantumoptics, Garching
Contributed talks
30-minute talks
Oded Regev and Ben Toner. Simulating Quantum Correlations with Finite Communication.
Graeme Smith. The private classical capacity with a symmetric side channel
Julia Kempe, Hirotada Kobayashi, Keiji Matsumoto and Thomas Vidick. Using Entanglement in Quantum Multi-Prover Interactive Proofs
Gabor Ivanyos, Luc Sanselme and Miklos Santha. An efficient quantum algorithm for the hidden subgroup problem in nil-2 groups
Andrew Cross, Graeme Smith, John Smolin and Bei Zeng. Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes
Toby Cubitt, Aram Harrow, Debbie Leung, Ashley Montanaro and Andreas Winter. Counterexamples to additivity of minimum output p-Renyi entropy for p close to 0
Nikhil Bansal, Sergey Bravyi and Barbara Terhal. Classical approximation schemes for the ground-state energy of quantum and classical Ising spin glasses on planar graphs
Simon-Pierre Desrosiers and Frederic Dupuis. Quantum entropic security and approximate quantum encryption
Julia Kempe, Oded Regev and Ben Toner. The Unique Games Conjecture with Entangled Provers is False
Gilles Brassard, Anne Broadbent, Joseph Fitzsimons, Sebastien Gambs and Alain Tapp Anonymous quantum communication
20-minute talks
Ivan Damgaard, Serge Fehr, Louis Salvail and Christian Schaffner. Secure Identification and QKD in the Bounded-Quantum-Storage Model
Jean Christian Boileau, Lana Sheridan, Martin Laforest and Stephen Bartlett. Quantum Reference Frames and the Classification of Rotationally-Invariant Maps
Ivan Damgaard, Serge Fehr, Renato Renner, Louis Salvail and Christian Schaffner. A Tight High-Order Entropic Quantum Uncertainty Relation With Applications
Stefano Pironio, Antonio Acin, Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, Serge Massar and Valerio Scarani. Device-independent security of Quantum Key Distribution
Stephanie Wehner and Andreas Winter. Higher entropic uncertainty relations for anti-commuting observables
Stefano Pironio, Miguel Navascues and Antonio Acin. Quantum probabilities, semidefinite programming, and optimization over Hilbert spaces
Zhengfeng Ji, Jianxin Chen, Zhaohui Wei and Mingsheng Ying. The LU-LC conjecture is false
Scott Aaronson. Quantum Copy-Protection
Julia Kempe, Hirotada Kobayashi, Keiji Matsumoto, Ben Toner and Thomas Vidick. On the Power of Entangled Provers: Immunizing games against entanglement
Daniel E. Browne, Elham Kashefi, Mehdi Mhalla and Simon Perdrix. Determinism in Measurement based quantum computation
Dan Browne, Matthew Elliot, Steven Flammia, Seth Merkel, Akimasa Miyake and Anthony Short. Phase transition of computational power in the resource states for one-way quantum computation
Aram Harrow. Quantum expanders from any classical Cayley graph expander
Tsuyoshi Ito, Hirotada Kobayashi, Daniel Preda, Xiaoming Sun and Andrew C.-C. Yao. Generalized Tsirelson Inequalities, Commuting-Operator Provers, and Multi-Prover Interactive Proof Systems
Keiji Matsumoto. Self-teleportation and its application on LOCC estimation and other tasks
Kazuo Iwama, Harumichi Nishimura, Rudy Raymond and Shigeru Yamashita. Unbounded-Error Classical and Quantum Communication Complexity
Robert Koenig and Renato Renner. Sampling of min-entropy relative to quantum knowledge
Matthias Christandl and Ben Toner. De Finetti theorems for finitely exchangeable conditional probability=20 distributions
Yi Zhao, Fred Fung, Bing Qi, Christine Chen and Hoi-Kwong Lo. Quantum hacking: experimental demonstration of time-shift attack
Julien Degorre, Marc Kaplan, Sophie Laplante and Jeremie Roland. The complexity of simulating non-signaling distributions
Jonathan Walgate and Andrew Scott. Completely Entangled Random Subspaces

Optical quantum information science position in Bristol:

Based in the Departments of Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, you will work in the Centre for Quantum Photonics in the area of optical quantum information science. We have a world-leading Centre for Quantum Photonics spanning Physics and Electrical Engineering. This group is active in several EU, US, Australian and UK programs. Areas being studied include: single photon sources from quantum dots and diamond, pair photon sources from photonic crystal fibres, multi-photon quantum interference, quantum communication, optical quantum computing, quantum measurement, and quantum metrology.
We currently have an opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the area of optical quantum measurement and quantum information. This project will involve generalised quantum measurements with single photons and quantum information processing. It will use photons generated via nonlinear crystals, as well as the photonic crystal fibres sources developed by Prof. John Rarity at Bristol. You will have postgraduate experience in experimental physics or related discipline. You may also have experience in single photon quantum optics or experimental quantum information science. General laboratory experience in interfacing equipment and data processing, and a willingness to supervise graduate students will also be necessary.
This position is offered for two years in the first instance, with possible extension to four years. If successful, you may be appointed either on a fixed term or a permanent contract depending on the extent of your previous relevant research experience. Further information can be found at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/personnel/ftc/

I was once kicked into a club with Jeremey O’Brien.