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Quantum Information and Cryptography November 04, 2002 - November 08, 2002
Registration Deadline: November 08, 2002 almost 22 years ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: August 04, 2002 about 22 years ago
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Organizers Richard Jozsa and Mary Beth Ruskai
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This workshop will be dedicated to theoretical aspects of quantum information and cryptography including the following topics: entanglement - manipulation, classification and quantification; compression and coding theorems for quantum information; quantum channel capacities; structural and non-local properties of quantum operations; cryptographic protocols such as key distribution, coin flipping and zero knowledge; other cognate topics. Invited speakers include: Andris Ambainis Charles Bennett* Anthony Chefles Ignacio Cirac Daniel Gottesman Mitsuru Hamada Patrick Hayden Michal Horodecki Chris King Masato Koashi Hoi Kwong Lo Debbie Leung Dominic Mayers Mary Beth Ruskai Peter Shor* Barbara Terhal Kurt Vollbrecht Andreas Winter Wojciech Zurek *unconfirmed Further speakers will be included. A session of short talks by participants may be organised spontaneously during the workshop (depending on audience response).
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Students, recent PhDs, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

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Nov 04, 2002
Monday
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Quantum universal composability
Dominic Mayers
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Nonlocal quantum resource transformations and unitary bidirectional quantum channels
Debbie Leung
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Monotonicity of quantum relative entropy revisited
Denes Petz
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
  Introduction and Welcome
Loa Nowina-Sapinski
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
  Information and entanglement in distributed systems: An interplay of resources
Michal Horodecki
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
  Morning Tea
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
  Entanglement properties of Gaussian states
Ignacio Cirac
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
  Remarks on additivity of the Holevo channel capacity and of entanglement of formation
Andreas Winter
12:15 PM - 02:15 PM
  Lunch
02:15 PM - 03:00 PM
  Environment-assisted invariance, ignorance, and information in quantum physics
Wojciech Zurek
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
04:10 PM - 05:10 PM
  Quantum error correction
Peter Shor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nov 05, 2002
Tuesday
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
  Capacity of the depolarizing channel
Christopher King
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
  Morning Tea
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
  TBA
Peter Shor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
  The structure of completely positive maps and entanglement breaking channels
Mary Beth Ruskai (Tufts University)
12:15 PM - 02:15 PM
  Lunch
02:15 PM - 03:00 PM
  TBA
Denes Petz
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:15 PM
  Symplectic codes and quantum capacity of noisy channels
Mitsuru Hamada
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
  Reception
Nov 06, 2002
Wednesday
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
  The communication cost of entanglement transformations
Patrick Hayden
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
  Morning Tea
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
  Indistinguishablity and compressibility of quantum states
Masato Koashi
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
  General theory of probabilistic quantum state transformations
Anthony Chefles
12:15 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
  TBA
Debbie Leung
02:45 PM - 03:15 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
  The power of LOCCq operations
Ashish Thapliyal
03:30 PM - 03:45 PM
  Are the basic laws of entanglement thermodynamical?
Jonathan Oppenheim
03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
  Quantum nonlocality and quantum discord
Harold Ollivier
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
  Thermodynamic interpretation of quantum error correcting criterion
Vladimir Korepin
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM
  Some aspects of entanglement
Shengjun Wu
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM
  Relative entropy and a substate theorem about quantum states
Pranab Sen
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM
  Encoding wavelets in quantum states and making quantum algorithms
Palle Jorgensen
Nov 07, 2002
Thursday
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
  TBA
Dominic Mayers
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
  Morning Tea
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
  Authentication of quantum messages
Claude Crépeau
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
  Uncloneable encryption
Daniel Gottesman
12:15 PM - 02:15 PM
  Lunch
02:15 PM - 03:00 PM
  Security of quantum key distribution with imperfect devices
Hoi-Kwong Lo
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 03:45 PM
  Random walks on directed lattices and their relevance to quantum information retrieval
Dimitri Petritis
03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
  Quantum key distribution
Christopher Wipf
04:15 PM - 05:00 PM
  Quantum Information and Cryptography
Norbert Lutkenhaus
Nov 08, 2002
Friday
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
  Local hidden variable theories for quantum states
Andrew Doherty
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
  Morning Tea
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
  Entanglement in quantum phase transitions
Guifre Vidal
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
  Distillation rates beyond qubits
Karl Gerd Vollbrecht