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NSF Site Visit -- Agenda

Thursday, 5 December 2002

 

All sessions in Beckman Institute Auditorium

Breaks and meals in Beckman Institute Courtyard

 

  8:15 -  8:45       Breakfast

  8:45 -  9:00       Richard Murray          Welcome

                             Tom Tombrello

  9:00 -  9:50       John Preskill             Overview

  9:50 -10:30       Leonard Schulman   Quantum algorithms

10:30 -11:00       Coffee Break and

Panel Executive Session (Room 228)

11:00 -11:30       Dave Bacon              Quantum entanglement

11:30 -12:00       Patrick Hayden         Quantum communication

12:00 -  1:30       Lunch and student posters

  1:30 -  2:10       Hideo Mabuchi          Quantum information in atomic

       ensembles (and broader impact)

  2:10 -  2:40       Andrew Doherty        Quantum control

  2:40 -  3:00       Coffee Break

  3:00 -  3:30       Alexei Kitaev             Quantum fault tolerance

  3:30 -  4:00       Jeff Kimble                Quantum information in cavity QED

 

 

 

Student posters:

 

Charlene Ahn, Continuous quantum error correction via quantum feedback control

John Cortese, Classical communication over quantum channels

Sumit Daftuar, The communication cost of entanglement transformations Jim Harrington, Calculating the accuracy threshold for toric codes

Theresa Lynn, Active feedback strategies for motion of a single atom in cavity QED

Carlos Mochon, Computing with anyons

Ben Rahn, Exact and approximate performance of concatenated codes

Federico Spedalieri, Distinguishing separable and entangled states

John Stockton, Entanglement in atomic ensembles

Ben Toner, Communication cost of simulating quantum correlations

Jake West, Universal quantum computation using projective measurement