Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

Eleventh Annual Meeting, February 19-22, 2009
Seattle, Washington

7:30-8:30	Conference Breakfast
SESSION 11: Quantum Algorithms
Session Chair:
8:30-9:15	Andrew Childs, University of Waterloo (invited)
	The relationship between continuous- and discrete-time quantum walk
9:15-9:45	Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University
	The Role of Coherence in Photosynthetic Energy Transfer
9:45-10:15	Robert Koenig, California Institute of Technology
	Simplifying quantum double Hamitonians using perturbative gadgets
10:15-10:45	Morning Coffee Break
SESSION 12: Quantum Communication
Session Chair:
10:45-11:15	Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Quantum communication with zero-capacity channels
11:15-11:45	Patrick Rice, Los Alamos National Lab
	Comparison between continuous wave and pulsed laser EQKD
11:45-12:15	Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Quantum Computation and Information Project, Solution Oriented Research for Science and Technology
	The Classically-Enhanced Father Protocol
12:15	Box Lunch