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Quantum Institute : 2010 Quantum Lunch Seminar Schedule

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  • Coordinator
    Diego Dalvit
  • Quantum Lunch Location:
    T-Division Conference Room, TA-3,
    Building 123, Room 121





Quantum Institute: Visitor Schedule 2010

The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121.
For more information, contact Diego Dalvit.
To add your name to the Quantum Lunch email list, contact Ellie Vigil

Date

Speaker/Affiliation

Topic (link to abstract)

Dec. 16, 2010
12:30 PM
Seth Lloyd,
MIT
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
Sending a photon backwards in time
Dec. 9, 2010
12:30 PM
Norman Yao,
Harvard University
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
Robust Quantum State Transfer in Random Unpolarized Spin Chains
Dec. 2, 2010
12:30 PM
Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario,
Harvard University
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
Decoherence Rate and System-Environment Quantum Correlations
Dec. 1, 2010
2:30 PM
Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario,
Harvard University
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
Not-Completely Positive Maps and Quantum Discord
Nov. 18, 2010
12:30 PM
Jon Yard,
CCS-3
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
Squashed entanglement and quantum de Finetti theorems
Nov. 4, 2010
12:30 PM
Patrick Coles,
Carnegie-Mellon University
Technical Host: Michael Zwolak
Information-theoretic treatment of tripartite systems and quantum channels
Oct. 28, 2010
12:30 PM
Aram Harrow,
University of Washington
Technical Host: Robin Blume-Kohout
Minimum output entropy of quantum channels is hard to approximate
Sep. 16, 2010
12:30 PM
Paul Parazzoli,
University of Colorado
Technical Host: Michael Di Rosa
Low energy interactions between trapped ND3 molecules and Rb atoms
Sep. 2, 2010
12:30 PM
Philip Johnson,
American University
Technical Host: Malcolm Boshier
Effective interactions, renormalization, and probing multi-body interactions with atom-number superposition states
Aug. 31, 2010
2:00 PM
Kazimierz Rzazewski,
Polish Academy of Sciences
Technical Host: Bogdan Damski
Bose statistics and classical fields
August 26, 2010
12:30 PM
Lorenzo Maccone,
MIT & Pavia
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
Quantum Randomness from Locality
August 19, 2010
2:00 PM
Lowell Brown,
XCP-4
Technical Host: Peter Milonni
The Classical Limit of the Hydrogen Atom and How I Got Only Part of it Right
August 12, 2010
12:30 PM
Piotr Marecki,
Duisburg University
Technical Host: Bogdan Damski
What does rotation of superfluids tell us about quantum fields in rotating spacetimes?
August 10, 2010
3:00 PM
Dudley Herschbach,
Harvard University
Technical Host: Steve Buelow
Prospects for quantum computing with polar molecules (co-sponsored with Institute for Advanced Studies)
August 5, 2010
12:30 PM
Jacopo Sabbatini,
University of Queensland
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
Kibble-Zurek mechanism in spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensate
July 29, 2010
12:30 PM
Marek Danielewski,
Univ of Science and Technology, Krakow
Technical Host: Tomasz Durakiewicz
The Planck-Kleinert Crystal
July 15, 2010
12:30 PM
Michael Uhlmann,
University of British Columbia
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
O(N) symmetry-breaking quantum quench -- defect creation and scaling
July 13, 2010
12:30 PM
Sergio Boixo,
California Institute of Technology
Technical Host: Rolando Somma
Preparing Gibbs states of quantum systems on a quantum computer
July 8, 2010
12:30 PM
Blair Blakie,
University of Otago
Technical Host: Malcolm Boshier
Finite temperature theory for a single component dipolar Fermi gas
June 10, 2010
12:30 PM
Marcelo P. de Miranda,
University of Leeds
Technical Host: Brian Kendrick
Dynamics of molecular collisions: analysis, control, information
June 3, 2010
12:30 PM
Duncan O'Dell,
McMaster University
Technical Host: Malcolm Boshier
Quantum Catastrophes
May 27, 2010
12:30 PM
Robin Blume-Kohout,
Perimeter Institute
Technical Host: Michael Zwolak
Quantum Knowledge
May 6, 2010
12:30 PM
Graeme Smith,
IBM
Technical Host: Jon Yard
When Quantum Mechanics Meets Time Machines
Apr. 22, 2010
12:30 PM
Marek Rams,
Jagiellonian University
Technical Host: Bogdan Damski
Dynamics of an inhomogeneous quantum phase transition
April 15, 2010
12:30 PM
Arnab Das,
T-4
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Periodically Driven Many-Body Quantum System: Exact Results in Quantum Ising Model
April 8, 2010
12:30 PM
Florent Krzakala,
ESPCI, Paris
Technical Host: Lenka Zdeborova
Energy gaps in quantum first-order transitions: The problems that quantum annealing cannot solve
Apr. 1, 2010
12:30 PM
Matthias Christandl,
LMU, Munich
Technical Host: Jon Yard
The Uncertainty Principle in the Presence of Quantum Memory
Mar. 25, 2010
12:30 PM
Ryan Behunin,
University of Maryland
Technical Host: Diego Dalvit
Nonequilibrium forces between neutral atoms and surfaces
Mar. 11, 2010
12:30 PM
Chih-Chun Chien,
T-4
Technical Host: Michael Zwolak
Quantum Many-Body Phases in Ultra-Cold Atoms: Interactions, Lattices, Population-Imbalance, Dynamics
Mar. 4, 2010
12:30 PM
Andrew J. Kerman,
Lincoln Laboratory
Technical Host: Gennady Berman
A metastable superconducting qubit
Feb. 25, 2010
12:30 PM
Natali Martinez,
Rice University
Technical Host: Xinxin Zhao
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Strontium 84
Feb. 4, 2010
12:30 PM
Lorenzo Maccone,
MIT
Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek
Quantum Metrology
Jan. 28, 2010
12:30 PM
Gregory C. Dente,
GCD Associates
Technical Host: Peter Milonni
Electronic Structure Calculations Using a New Density-Functional Theory
Jan. 21, 2010
12:30 PM
Steven Johnson,
MIT
Technical Host: Diego Dalvit
Universal Descriptions of Resonant Processes, from Linear Optical Filters to Nonlinear Frequency Conversion


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