May 11-13, 2009
Program

Monday, May 11th

8:30-9:20 Registration
9:20-9:30 Opening remarks
9:30-10:20 Invited talk: Miklos Santha. Quantum walk based search algorithms
10:20-10:50 Demerson N. Gonçalves, Renato Portugal and Carlos Magno Martins Cosme. Solutions to the Hidden Subgroup Problem on some Metacyclic Groups
10:50-11:10 Break
11:10-11:40 Wim van Dam and Qingqing Yuan. Quantum algorithm for Online Memory Checking
11:40-12:10 Earl Campbell and Dan Browne. Neither magical nor classical?
12:10-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:50 Invited talk: Stephanie Wehner. Unconditional security from noisy quantum storage
2:50-3:20 Takeshi Koshiba and Takanori Odaira. Statistically-Hiding Quantum Bit Commitment from Approximable-Preimage-Size Quantum One-Way Function
3:20-3:50 Break
3:50-4:20 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
4:20-4:50 Stefano Pirandola, Samuel Braunstein and Seth Lloyd. On the security and degradability of Gaussian channels
6:30 Reception (Perimeter Institute)

Tuesday, May 12th

9:30-10:20 Invited talk: John Preskill. Fault-tolerant quantum computation vs. realistic noise
10:20-10:50 James Wootton, Ville Lahtinen and Jiannis Pachos. Universal quantum computation with a non-abelian topological memory
10:50-11:40 Break
11:40-12:10 Cedric Beny. A necessary condition for approximate quantum error correction
12:10-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Rump session
4:00-6:00 Poster session (SLC Multipurpose Room)
6:00 Banquet (University Club)

Wednesday, May 13th

9:30-10:20 Invited talk: Graeme Smith. Rocket Channels
10:20-10:50 Jean-Christian Boileau and Joseph Renes. Optimal State Merging Without Decoupling
10:50-11:10 Break
11:10-11:40 Min-Hsiu Hsieh and Mark Wilde. Optimal trading of classical communication, quantum communication, and entanglement
11:40-12:10 Miguel Navascués, Masaki Owari and Martin B. Plenio. On the power of PPT constraint in the symmetric extension test of the separability problem
12:10-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:50 Invited talk: Masato Koashi. Quantitative relations among different aspects of quantum correlations
2:50-3:20 Miguel Navascués, Masaki Owari and Martin B. Plenio. Entanglement Theory Applied
3:20-3:50 Jon Tyson. Two-sided estimates of minimum-error distinguishability of mixed quantum states via generalized Holevo-Curlander bounds