Schedule

=== Go to current week, future weeks , or other talks === (Scott Aaronson on BQP vs PH) || Short talk by Robert Koenig on topological QC || until 2:30 pm || informal black board talk; until 12:30 pm || (Station Q) || **Interacting anyons in topological quantum liquids** || CNSI lunch seminar; until 1 pm || indistinguishable particles** || informal black board talk; until 12:30 pm ||
 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * **Week 1** ||
 * Mon, Sep 14 || 2:00 pm || SSR || //Coordinators// || **Organizational Meeting** || All interested welcome. ||
 * Tue, Sep 15 || 11:00 am || SSR || //all participants// || **pre-lunch research meeting** || until 12:30 pm ||
 * Thu, Sep 17 || 3:30 pm || SSR || //Stephen Jordan// || **Gadgets for Adiabatic Computing** || ||
 * Fri, Sep 18 || 2:00 pm || AUD || Ben Reichardt || **Span Programs and Quantum Algorithms** || until 3:00 pm ||
 * **Week 2** ||
 * Mon, Sep 21 || 12:15 pm || AUD || //Wim van Dam// || **The Current State of Quantum Algorithms** || Blackboard Lunch; all interested welcome ||
 * || 1:30 pm || FR || //all participants// || **informal late-lunch meeting** || until 2:30 pm ||
 * Tue, Sep 22 || 11:00 am || SSR || //all participants// || **pre-lunch research meeting** || until 12:30 pm
 * Wed, Sep 23 || 3:30 pm || SSR || //Dmitry Gavinsky// || **Predictive quantum learning** || ||
 * Thu, Sep 24 || 3:30 pm || SSR || //Scott Aaronson// || **Quantum advice** || ||
 * Fri, Sep 25 || 2pm || AUD || //Steven Girvin// || **Experimental Demonstration of Quantum Algorithms on a Two-Qubit Superconducting Processor** || Come learn what is the qubit! ||
 * **Week 3** ||
 * Mon Sep 28 || 1:30 pm || FR || //all participants// || **informal late-lunch meeting** || until 2:30 pm ||
 * Tue, Sep 29 || 11:00 am || FR || //all participants// || **pre-lunch research meeting** || until 12:30 pm ||
 * Wed, Sep 30 || 3:30 pm || AUD || Ronald de Wolf || **Classical applications of quantum information theory** || until 5 pm ||
 * Thu, Oct 1 || 3:30 pm || AUD || Zeph Landau || **The detectability lemma: making sense of the notion of quantum constraint violation** || until 5 pm ||
 * **Week 4** ||
 * Mon, Oct 5 || 1:30 pm || FR || //all participants// || **informal late-lunch meeting** || until 2:30 pm ||
 * Tues, Oct 6 || 11:00 am || FR || Andrew Childs || **A black box unitary problem** || informal black board talk; until 12:30 pm ||
 * Wed, Oct 7 || 3:30 pm || SSR || Spyridon Michalakis || **Approximating the Ground State of Gapped Hamiltonians** || until 5 pm[[file:kitp_talk_gap.pdf]] ||
 * Thu, Oct 8 || 3:30 pm || SSR || Sean Hallgren || **Algorithms for ray class groups and Hilbert class fields** || until 5 pm ||
 * **Week 5** ||
 * Mon, Oct 12 || 1:30 pm || FR || //all participants// || **informal late-lunch meeting**
 * Tues, Oct 13 || 11:00 am || FR || Elizabeth Behrman || **Quantum neural networks** || [[file:Quantum neural networks handout.pdf]]
 * Wed, Oct 14 || 3:30 pm || SSR || Mark Howard || **[|Tight Noise Thresholds for Quantum Computation with Perfect Stabilizer Operations]** || until 4:30pm, extra discussion until 5 pm ||
 * Thu, Oct 15 || 3:30 pm || SSR || Peter Love || **Quantum Simulations** || until 4:30pm, extra discussion 5 pm ||
 * Fri, Oct 16 || 2:00 pm || TR || Aram Harrow || **Entanglement Spread: Solved and open problems** || until 3:00pm, extra discussion throughout the meeting ||
 * **Week 6** ||
 * Mon, Oct 19 || 1:30 pm || FR || //all participants// || Falk Unger will lead discussion -- **Fault-tolerant quantum communication complexity** || until 2:30 pm ||
 * Tues, Oct 20 || 11:00 am || FR || //all participants// || Scott Cohen will lead discussion -- **The difference between LOCC and separable measurements** || informal black board talk; until 12:30 pm ||
 * Wed, Oct 21 || 3:30 pm || SSR || Aram Harrow || **Fast quantum algorithm for solving certain systems of linear equations** || until 4:30pm, extra discussion until 5 pm ||
 * **Thu, Oct 22** || || || || **There will be no talk today because of the [|QIP 2010 submission deadline] at 23:59** || ||
 * Fri, Oct 23 || 2:00pm || AUD || Karyn Le Hur || **Qubit in the Quantum Many-Body World --- Entanglement Entropy, Decoherence, and the Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana riddle** || until 3pm, extra discussion until 3:15pm ||
 * **Week 7** ||
 * Mon, Oct 26 || 1:30 pm || FR || //all participants// || Mary Beth Ruskai: **Real open problem in quantum information theory** || until 2:30 pm ||
 * Tues, Oct 27 || 11:00 am || FR || //all participants// || Toby Cubitt will lead discussion -- **Deriving Master Equations from Quantum Channels is NP-Hard** || informal black board talk; until 12:30 pm ||
 * || 4:00 pm || Broida 1640 || Hans Mooij || **Quantum phase slip in superconducting nanowires** || Physics Colloquium until 5:00 pm; note location ||
 * Wed, Oct 28 || 3:30 pm || SSR || Hoi-Kwong Lo || **QKD -- assumptions and detection efficiency loophole.** || until 4:30pm, extra discussion until 5 pm ||
 * Thu, Oct 29 ||  3:30pm || SSR || Jonathan Oppenheim || **Mutual Independence** || until 4:30pm, extra discussion until 5 pm ||
 * Fri, Oct 30 || 12:00 || 1601 Elings Hall || Simon Trebst
 * **Week 8** ||
 * Mon, Nov 2 || 1:30 pm || FR || //all participants// || reorganization meeting, and short presentations of open problems || until 2:30 pm ||
 * Tue, Nov 3 || 11:00 am || FR || John Schliemann || **Entanglement-like correlations between
 * Wed, Nov 4 || 3:30 pm || AUD || Hans Mooij || **Quantum simulation with superconducting flux qubits** || until 4:30pm, extra discussion until 5 pm; note location ||
 * Thu, Nov 5 || 3:30pm || AUD || Graeme Smith || **Sending quantum information with zero capacity channels** || until 4:30pm, extra discussion until 5 pm; note location ||
 * **Week 9** ||
 * Mon, Nov 9 || 1:30 pm || FR || //all participants// || || until 2:30 pm ||
 * Tue, Nov 10 || 11:00 am || FR || Sarah Croke || **Streaming universal entanglement concentration** || informal black board talk; until 12:30 pm ||
 * Wed, Nov 11 || 3:30 pm || SSR || Matthew Hastings || **Making Almost Commuting Matrices Commute** || until 4:30 pm; note that today is Veterans Day and that some parts of campus will be closed ||
 * Thu, Nov 12 || 3:30pm || SSR || Todd Brun || **Quantum Steganography** || until 4:30pm, extra discussion until 5 pm ||
 * Fri, Nov 13 || 2:00pm || AUD || Daniel Gottesman || **Computationally hard problems in translationally-invariant spin systems** || until 3:30pm ||
 * **Week 10** ||
 * Mon, Nov 16 || 1:30 pm || FR || all participants || meet & greet of newly arrived participants || until 2:30 pm ||
 * Tue, Nov 17 || 11:00 am || SSR || Netanel Lindner || **A photonic cluster state machine gun** || until 12:30 pm ||
 * Wed, Nov 18 || 10:30 am || SSR || Graeme Smith, Charles Bennett, and Debbie Leung || Participant initiated discussion: **Closed Timelike Curves -- What they're good or bad for** || until 11:30 pm ||
 * || 2:00 pm || MSR || Charles Bennett || **KITP Colloquium: Quantum information and the birth and death of complexity** || until 3:15 pm ||
 * Thu, Nov 19 || 3:30pm || SSR || Jake Taylor || **Entanglement and metrology in hybrid quantum systems** || until 4:30pm, extra discussion until 5 pm ||
 * Fri, Nov 20 || 2:00pm || AUD || Xuedong Hu || **Recent progress in silicon based quantum computing** || until 3:30pm ||
 * **Week 11** ||
 * Mon, Nov 23 || 11:00am || SSR || Lin Tian || **Superconducting Resonators and Their Applications in Quantum Engineering** || until noon ||
 * || 1:30 pm || FR || all participants || meet & greet of newly arrived participants and sharing open problems || until 2:30 pm ||
 * Tue, Nov 24 || 11:00 am || SSR || Andrew Briggs || **Outstanding problems in using spin states for practical quantum information science** || until noon ||
 * || 4:00 pm || Broida 1640 || Daniel Loss || **Spin-Qubits in Nanostructures** || Physics Colloquium until 5:00 pm; note location ||
 * Tue, Nov 24 || 2:00 pm || SSR || Kieron Burke || **The unreasonable accuracy of asymptotic expansions: Why density functional theory works** || Special cross-program seminar ||
 * Wed, Nov 25 || 11:00am || SSR || Frank Wilhelm || **Optimal contol of imperfect qubits** || ||
 * Thur-Fri, Nov 26-27 || || || || //Thanksgiving// || ||


 * **Week 12** ||
 * Mon, Nov 30 ||  11:00am  ||  SSR  ||  Frank Verstraete  ||  **Quantum Simulations**  ||  until noon  ||
 * Mon, Nov 30 ||  1:30 pm  ||  FR  ||  all participants  ||  meet & greet of newly arrived participants and sharing open problems  ||  until 2:00pm  ||
 * Mon, Nov 30 ||  2:15pm  ||  AUD  ||  Jens Eisert  ||  **Learning much from little: Compressed sensing approach to quantum state tomography and other ideas of systems identification**  ||  until 3:15pm  ||
 * Tue, Dec. 1 ||  11:00 am  ||  SSR  ||  Lieven Vandersypen  ||  **Control of electron and nuclear spins in GaAs quantum dots**  ||  until noon  ||
 * Tue, Dec. 1 ||  2:00 pm  ||  AUD  ||  Ignacio Cirac  ||  **TBA**  ||  until 3pm  ||
 * Tue, Dec 1 || 4:00 pm || SSR || Daniel Loss || **Self-correcting quantum memories** || until 5pm ||
 * Wed, Dec 2 ||  11:00 am  ||  SSR  ||  David DiVincenzo  ||  **Cross Kerr effect and other quantum optics with the superconducting ring resonator**  ||  until noon  ||
 * Wed, Dec 2 ||  2:00pm  ||  AUD  ||  Misha Lukin  || ====== TBA ====== ||  until 3pm  ||
 * Wed Dec 2 ||  4pm  ||  SSR  ||  Atac Imamoglu  || **Quantum optics with quantum dots**  ||  until 5pm  ||
 * Thurs Dec 3 ||  11:00am  ||  AUD  ||  Bill Coish  ||  **Spin-bath decoherence: Old results and new surprises**  ||  until noon  ||
 * Thurs Dec 3 || 1:30pm || MSR || Amir Yacoby || **Ultra long coherence of 2 electron logical spin qubits in GaAs quantum dots** || until 2:30pm ||
 * Thurs Dec 3 || 3:30pm || SSR || John Preskill || **Protected gates for robust superconducting qubit** || until 4:30pm ||
 * **Week 13** ||
 * Mon, Dec 7 || 11:00 am || SSR || David Awschalom/Greg Fuchs || ======**Gigahertz dynamics of a strongly-driven single spin in diamond**====== || until noon ||
 * Mon, Dec 7 || 2pm || AUD || Charlie Marcus || =====**Progress Report on Spin Qubits**===== || until 3pm ||
 * Tues, Dec 8 || 11am || SSR || Peter Zoller |||| ======**Q****uantum Optics-Solid State Hybrid Systems**====== ||
 * Tues, Dec 8 || 2pm || AUD || Shankar DasSarma || ======**Spin quantum coherence**====== || until 3pm ||
 * Wed Dec 9 || 11:30am || AUD || Jeremy Levy || ====== ======
 * Wed Dec 9 || 11:30am || AUD || Jeremy Levy || ====== ======

**A New Platform for Developing Quantum Information Technology**
|| until 12:30pm ||

**Planned talks that have not been scheduled yet:**
**Other regularly scheduled talks that might of interest:** TOP⇧]
 * KITP Blackboard Lunch: Mondays, 12:15 - 1:30 pm, KITP, Auditorium
 * [|Station Q lunch seminar]: Tuesdays, 12:30 - 2:00 pm in Elings Hall, room 2250
 * [|Physics Department Colloquium]: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Broida, room 1640
 * KITP Colloquium: Wednesdays, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, KITP, Main Seminar Room