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Introductory Workshop in Quantum Computation August 26, 2002 - August 30, 2002

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Aug 26, 2002
Monday
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
  Welcome and Introduction
Loa Nowina-Sapinski
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Introduction to quantum computing
Umesh Vazirani (University of California, Berkeley)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Introduction to quantum algorithms: The basics
Michele Mosca
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Quantum information theory, part 1
Ashwin Nayak
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Quantum cryptography
Gilles Brassard
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM
  NSF funding for quantum computation
Henry Warchall (National Science Foundation)
Aug 27, 2002
Tuesday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Quantum Fourier transforms
Sean Hallgren
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Quantum algorithms: Phase estimation and factoring
John Watrous (University of Waterloo)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Quantum error correction
Dave Bacon
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Group representation theory and quantum algorithms
Leonard Schulman (California Institute of Technology)
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
  Reception
Aug 28, 2002
Wednesday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Quantum information theory, part 2
Ashwin Nayak
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Quantum searching, counting and generalizations
Michele Mosca
03:15 PM - 03:45 PM
  Afternoon Tea
Aug 29, 2002
Thursday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Quantum teleportation and applications
Gilles Brassard
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Security of quantum key distribution protocols, part 1
Michael Ben-Or
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Security of quantum key distribution protocols, part 2
Michael Ben-Or
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Quantum lower bounds
Scott Aaronson
Aug 30, 2002
Friday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Fault-tolerant quantum computation
Dorit Aharonov (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Quantum interactive proofs
John Watrous (University of Waterloo)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Quantum communication complexity
Ronald de Wolf
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Novel models for quantum computation
Dave Bacon
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