QIP 2009 - Talks, Final Registration/Hotel Dates
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QIP 2009 — 12th WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING -
Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. January 12-16, 2009.
The registration deadline for QIP has been extended to December 28, 2008.
HOWEVER, the deadline for conference hotel rates is December 10, 2008, 23:59
MST.
Please be sure to reserve a room by this date or the price may go up by
approximately $60 per night.
If you would like to register for QIP, please fill out the registration form
at http://qipworkshop.org/
The full schedule for QIP will be posted soon; in the interim, the list of
invited speakers and accepted papers is presented below.
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INVITED SPEAKERS:
Andrew Childs (IQC, Waterloo)
Avinatan Hassidim (Jerusalem)
Matt Hastings (Los Alamos)
Charles Marcus (Harvard)
Lluis Masanes (ICFO, Barcelona)
Graeme Smith (IBM TJ Watson)
ACCEPTED TALKS:
Amnon Ta-Shma. Short seed extractors against quantum storage
Fernando Brandao and Martin Plenio. Quantum Stein’s Lemma for Correlated
States and Asymptotic Entanglement Transformations
Sandy Irani. Ground States Entanglement in One Dimensional
Translationally-Invariant Quantum Systems
Andris Ambainis. Quantum algorithms are at most polynomially faster than
classical for any symmetric function
Sergey Bravyi and Barbara Terhal. A no-go theorem for a two-dimensional
self-correcting quantum memory based on stabilizer codes
Jop Briet, Harry Buhrman and Ben Toner. A generalized Grothendieck
inequality and entanglement in XOR games
Dmitry Gavinsky. Classical Interaction Cannot Replace Quantum Nonlocality
Richard Cleve, Daniel Gottesman, Michele Mosca, Rolando Somma and David
Yonge-Mallo. Efficient discrete-time simulations of continuous-time quantum
query algorithms
Patrick Hayden and Andreas Winter. The Fidelity Alternative and Quantum
Measurement Simulation
Jean-Pierre Tillich. Quantum Tornado codes
Robert Koenig, Renato Renner and Christian Schaffner. The Operational
Meaning of Min- and Max-Entropy
Panos Aliferis and John Preskill. Fault-tolerant quantum computing against
highly biased noise
Tsuyoshi Ito, Hirotada Kobayashi and Keiji Matsumoto. Oracularization and
Two-Prover One-Round Interactive Proofs against Nonlocal Strategies
Robert Koenig, Ben Reichardt and Guifre Vidal. Exact entanglement
renormalization for string-net models
Ashley Montanaro and Tobias Osborne. Quantum boolean functions
Bill Rosgen. Distinguishability of Random Unitary Channels
Aram Harrow and Richard Low. Efficient Quantum Tensor Product Expanders and
k-designs
Avraham Ben-Aroya and Amnon Ta-Shma. Approximate quantum error correction
for correlated noise
Steve Flammia, David Gross, Jens Eisert, Michael Bremner, Andreas
Winter and Caterina Mora. Most quantum states are useless for
measurement-based quantum computation
Dmitry Gavinsky. Predictive Quantum Learning
Norbert Schuch and Frank Verstraete. Interacting electrons, Density
Functional Theory, and Quantum Merlin Arthur
Norbert Schuch, J. Ignacio Cirac and Frank Verstraete. The computational
difficulty of finding MPS ground states
Jens Eisert and David Gross. Lieb Robinson bounds and “supersonic quantum
communication”
Dan Shepherd and Michael Bremner. Instantaneous Quantum Computation
Scott Aaronson and John Watrous. Closed Timelike Curves Make Quantum and
Classical Computing Equivalent
John Smolin and Graeme Smith. Can non-private channels transmit quantum
information?
Dejan Dukaric, Manuel Forster, Severin Winkler and Stefan Wolf. On
Non-Locality Distillation
Dave Bacon, Wim van Dam and Alexander Russell. Analyzing Quantum Circuits
Using the Least Action Principle
Matthias Christandl, Dejan Dukaric, Robert Koenig, and Renato Renner.
Postselection-technique with applications to quantum cryptography and the
parallel repetition problem
Gilles Brassard, Louis Salvail and Alain Tapp. Key Distribution and
Oblivious Transfer ? la Merkle
Bryan Eastin and Emanuel Knill. Restrictions on Transversal Encoded Quantum
Gate Sets
Yi-Kai Liu. Quantum Algorithms using the Curvelet Transform
STEERING COMMITTEE:
Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University)
Cris Moore (UNM/SFI) (Chair)
John Preskill (Caltech)
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (TIFR, Mumbai)
Renato Renner (ETH Zurich)
Peter Shor (MIT)
John Watrous (Waterloo)
Andreas Winter (Bristol)
Ronald de Wolf (CWI, Amsterdam).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Hans Briegel (University of Innsbruck)
Harry Buhrman (CWI, Amsterdam)
Wim van Dam (UCSB)
Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute)
Aram Harrow (Bristol)
Patrick Hayden (McGill)
Richard Jozsa (Bristol) (Chair)
Julia Kempe (Tel Aviv)
Manny Knill (NIST)
Andrew Landahl (University of New Mexico)
Debbie Leung (IQC Waterloo)
Keiji Matsumoto (NII Tokyo)
Ben Reichardt (Waterloo)
Alex Russell (University of Connecticut)
Barbara Terhal (IBM)
Frank Verstraete (University of Vienna)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Howard Barnum (LANL)
Jim Harrington (LANL)
Andrew Landahl (University of New Mexico) (Chair)
Cris Moore (University of New Mexico / Santa Fe Institute)
Jon Yard (LANL)
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