QUBIT

an interdisciplinary miniconference on quantum information processing


Organizers: Tal Mor (EE/College of Judea and Samaria) and Eli Biham (CS/Technion);

Date: Monday, Dec. 4; Place: Room 337, CS, Technion

Topics: theory and implementations of quantum information, computing, communication and cryptography

Everybody is invited to attend the talks. Hot/cold drinks and cookies will be available during the coffee breaks.

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Conference Program (updated)


10:00-10:30 Opening speech: Yuval Ne'eman

10:30-11:15 Tal Mor: Algorithmic cooling and scalable NMR quantum computers

11:15-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-12:10 Asher Peres: Quantum cryptography with 3-state systems

12:10-12:55 Charles H. Bennett: Degrees of knowledge of a quantum state

12:55-14:40 Lunch break

14:40-15:25 Gershon Kurizki: Entanglement and teleportation via collisions

15:25-16:10 Simon Litsyn: Bounds on parameters of quantum codes

16:10-16:40 Coffee break

16:40-17:25 Amnon Ta-Shma: A round separation for quantum communication complexity

17:25-18:10 Ofer Biham: Analysis of generalized Grover algorithm






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Acknowledgement:

T.M. thanks the Electrical Engineering Department in UCLA and in particular Prof. Vwani Roychowdhury for their important help and support.

T.M. and E.B. thank Rivka Zur for her huge help with designing and creating the Qubitconf web page.

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Please note: Prof. Asher Peres (Physics Dept. Technion) is organizing a conference on a related topic: "Quantum Mechanics and Information Theory" Date - Dec. 5.