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December-2006
 
December 12: IQI Seminar
The sound of inflation: phonon correlations in a chirped ion trap
     Debbie Leung, University of Waterloo
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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December 5: IQI Seminar
The sound of inflation: phonon correlations in a chirped ion trap
     Nicolas Menicucci, Princeton
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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November-2006
 

 
November 28: IQI Seminar
Ancillae with homogeneous errors
     Bryan Eastin, University of New Mexico
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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November 17: CMP Seminar
Generalized symmetries and finite temperature topological orders
     Zohar Nussinov, Washington University in St. Louis
     12:00 pm, 107 Downs

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November 14: IQI Seminar
What's Entanglement Good For?
     Steve Flammia, University of New Mexico
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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November 7: IQI Seminar
Quantum control of coupled spins in a mesoscopic environment
     Jake Taylor, MIT
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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October-2006
 

 
October 31: IQI Seminar
Quantum vs. classical one-way communication complexity
     Iordanis Kerenidis, CNRS-University of Paris
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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October 27: CMP Seminar
Preparing, manipulating and measuring quantum states on a chip
     Jason Petta, Princeton
     12:00 pm, 107 Downs

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October 24: IQI Seminar
Superconducting quantum interference eevices at the nanoscale
     Paul Goldbart, University of Illinois
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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October 17: IQI Seminar
Optimal quantum measurements
     Rolando Somma, LANL
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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October 3: IQI Seminar
Discreteness and the origin of probability in quantum mechanics
     Stephen Hsu, University of Oregon
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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June-2006
 

 
June 27: IQI Seminar
Simulating quantum spin systems
     Tobias Osborne, University of Bristol
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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June 20: IQI Seminar
Quantum computation for quantum chemistry
     Peter Love, Haverford College
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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June 13: IQI Seminar
Molecular heat engines and their similarity to logical circuits
     Dominik Janzing, University of Karlsruhe
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

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June 6: IQI Seminar
Fiber optics protocols for quantum communication
     Serge Massar, University of Brussels
     3:30 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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May-2006
 

 
May 26: CMP Seminar
Probing order beyond the Landau paradigm
     Michael Levin, MIT
     12:00 p.m., 107 Downs
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May 23: IQI Seminar
Reversible universal quantum computation within translation invariant systems
     Karl Vollbrecht, Max Planck Institute
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen

    
 
May 9: IQI Seminar
Quantum gravity from quantum computation: observational consequences
     Seth Lloyd, MIT
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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May 2: IQI Seminar
Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices and Superlattices
     Mason Porter, Caltech
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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April-2006
 

 
April 25: IQI Seminar
Two Results on the Consistency of Local Density Matrices
     Yi-Kai Liu, UCSD
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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April 18: IQI Seminar

     Jon Yard, Caltech
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
    

 
April 14: IQI Special Seminar
Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics with cold polar molecules
     Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck
     4:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen


 
April 13: IQI Special Seminar
Observation of high-temperature superfluidity in a gas of fermionic atoms
     Martin Zwierlein, MIT
     1:30 p.m., 308 Firestone
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April 11: IQI Seminar
Studying the BCX-BEC crossover regime with a Fermi gas of ^{40}K atoms
     Cindy Regal, JILA, University of Colorado
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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April 4: IQI Seminar
One-and-a-half quantum de Finetti theorems
     Matthias Christandl, University of Cambridge
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen

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March-2006
 

 
March 28: IQI Seminar
Hamiltonian oracles
     Carlos Mochon, Perimeter Institute
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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March 21: IQI Seminar
Local Hamiltonians and Arthur-Merlin games
     Sergey Bravyi, IBM, Watson Research Center
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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March 3: IQI Special Seminar
Quantum simulation of many-body physics with ultracold atoms
     Luming Duan, University of Michigan
     4:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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February-2006
 

 
February 28: IQI Seminar
Qubit complexity of continuous problems
     Joseph F. Traub, Columbia University
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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February 21: IQI Seminar
Two distinct indistinguishability results
     Jonathan Walgate, University of Calgary
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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February 14: IQI Seminar
Failure thresholds for a fault-tolerant two-dimensional lattice architecture
     Krysta Svore, Columbia University
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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February 7: IQI Seminar
A bound on the accuracy threshold for trapped-ion quantum computing
     Andrew Cross, MIT
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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January-2006
 

 
January 31: IQI Seminar
Dicke quantum phase transition in an optical cavity QED system
     Scott Parkins, University of Auckland
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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January 24: IQI Seminar
Accurate quantum state estimation via "Keeping the Expert Honest"
     Robin Blume-Kohout, Caltech
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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January 17: IQI Seminar
The world of Matrix Product States: a work in progress
     David Perez-Garcia, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
     3:00 p.m., 74 Jorgensen
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January 10: IQI Seminar
Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in higher dimensions
     Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos National Laboratory
     3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
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