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December-2009
 

 
November-2009
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November 24: IQI Seminar

      Kaveh Khodjasteh, Dartmouth College

      3:00 pm, 105 Annenberg
      
 
November 10: IQI Seminar
Optimizing the layout and error properties of quantum circuits
      John Kubiatowicz, UC Berkeley

      3:00 pm, 105 Annenberg
      Abstract
     
 
November 3: IQI Seminar
Categorically isolating quantum properties
      Chris Heunen, University of Oxford

      3:00 pm, 105 Annenberg
      Abstract
     
 
November 2: IQI/CMP Seminar
Random quantum satisfiability: statistical mechanics of quantum optimization
      Chris Laumann, Princeton

      4:15 pm, 107 Downs
      Abstract
      
 
October-2009
 

 
October 28: IQI Special Seminar      **WEDNESDAY**
The positive semidefinite Grothendieck problem with rank constraint
      Frank Vallentin, Delft University of Technology
      3:00 pm, 121 Annenberg, Building 16
      Abstract
     
 

October 20: IQI Seminar
Measurement-based quantum computation in realistic spin-1 chains
      Joe Renes, Technical University of Darmstadt
      3:00 pm, 105 Annenberg, Building 16
      Abstract
     

 
October 19: CMP & IQI Seminar
Quantum phases of a supersymmetric model of lattice fermions
      Liza Huijse, University of Amsterdam

      4:00 pm, 107 Downs
      Abstract
     
 
September-2009
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September 29: IQI Seminar
Ultracold collisions in an optically trapped gas of polar molecules
      Kang-Kuen Ni, University of Colorado at Boulder, JILA

      3:00 pm, 105 Annenberg, Building 16
      Abstract


 
August-2009
 

 
July-2009
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June-2009
 

 
June 30: IQI Seminar
Some topological applications of tensor networks
      Miguel Aguado,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 

June 23: IQI Seminar
A quantum approach to thermal equilibrium
      Tony Short, University of Cambridge

      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

      Abstract


 
May-2009
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May 26: IQI Seminar
Tsirelson's Problem and approximability questions
      Volkher Scholz, University of Waterloo
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
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May 21: IQI Special Seminar **Thursday**
Quantum Cryptography in Real-life Applications
      Yi Zhao, University of Toronto
      2:45 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract

 
May 19: IQI Seminar
Stabilizer graphs
      Matthew Elliott, University of Southern Illinois
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 
May 5: IQI Seminar
Quantum multi prover interactive proofs with communicating provers
      Avinatan Hassidim, MIT
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 
May 4: CMP/IQI Seminar
An optical Gas Microscope for quantum simulation
      Simon Foelling, Harvard
      4:00 pm, 107 Downs
      Abstract


 
April-2009
 

 
April 28: IQI Seminar
Heralded polynomial-time quantum state tomography
     
Steve Flammia, Perimeter Institute
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 
April 21: IQI Seminar
Simulating quantum systems using Tensor Networks and Monte Carlo
      Norbert Schuch,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 
April 7: IQI Seminar
Quantum algorithms for testing properties of probability distributions
     
Sergey Bravyi, IBM, Research
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 
March-2009
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March 10: IQI Seminar
Entanglement in quantum games
     
Thomas Vidick, UC Berkeley
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 
February-2009
 

 
February 24: IQI Seminar
Continuous vs. discrete oracles
      Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 
February 17: IQI Special Seminar
Interacting anyonic fermions in a two-body color code model
      Hector
Bombín, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 

January-2009

 

 
January 30: IQI Special Seminar
A photonic cluster state machine gun
     
Netanel Lindner, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 
January 28: Group Meeting
Quantum multiple-Merlin-Arthur games and separability problem
     
Salman Beigi, MIT
      5:30 pm, 156 Jorgensen
      Abstract


 
January 27: IQI Seminar
The operational meaning of min- and max-entropy
     
Christian Schaffner, CWI
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

      Abstract


 
January 21: Group Meeting  
   
     
Stephen Bartlett, University of Sydney
      5:30 pm, 156 Jorgensen



 
January 20: IQI Seminar
Entanglement Renormalization: Foundations, status and prospects
     
Guifre Vidal, University of Queensland
      3:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

      Abstract


 
January 20: IST Lunch Bunch
Topological quantum computation
     
Alexei Kitaev
      12:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen

      Abstract