Program

Friday Program

7:00am - 8:30amBreakfast (Fiesta Room)

SESSION 6: Quantum Computation, Chair: Andrew Landahl (Ballroom)

8:30am - 9:15amDaniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute
Fault-tolerant quantum computation with constant overhead
9:15am - 9:45amKrysta Svore, Microsoft Research
Efficient Synthesis of Universal Probabilistic Quantum Circuits
9:45am - 10:15amBreak (Belvedere Foyer)

SESSION 7: Neutral Atom QIP, Chair: Theresa Lynn (Ballroom)

10:15am-11:00amDan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley
Optically measuring and coupling quantum systems in a cavity
11:00am - 11:30amYuan-Yu Jau, Sandia National Laboratories
A Platform of Rydberg-Dressed Cesium Atoms for Quantum Control Applications
11:30am-12:00pmKevin Cox, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and University of Colorado at Boulder
Spin Squeezing via Measurement -- a Useful Entanglement Resource
12:00pm - 1:30pmLunch (Bay Grille and Quarter Deck)

SESSION 8: Quantum Control, Chair: Poul Jessen (Ballroom)

1:30pm-2:15pmLorenza Viola, Dartmouth College
Dissipative quantum state preparation with quasi-local resources
2:15pm-2:45pmTommaso Calarco, University of Ulm
Steering many-body quantum dynamics
2:45pm-3:15pmAdam Kaufman, University of Colorado at Boulder, JILA
Two-particle quantum interference in tunnel-coupled optical tweezers
3:15pm - 3:45pmBreak (Belvedere Foyer)

SESSION 9a: Break-out 1, AMO QIP II, Chair: Jae Hoon Lee (Angel Room)

3:45pm-4:15pmPeter Maunz, Sandia National Laboratories
Quantum Information Processing in surface electrode ion traps
4:15pm-4:45pmEnrique Montano, University of Arizona
Quantum control and squeezing of collective spin
4:45pm-5:15pmKai-Mei Fu, University of Washington
Hybrid diamond/gallium phosphide photonics for on-chip entanglement generation
5:15pm-5:45pmAndrea Alberti, Institut für Angewandte Physik
Quantum walks with neutral atoms: from quantum transport phenomena to the falsification of classical trajectory theories

SESSION 9b: Break-out 2, Tomography and Metrology, Chair: Bryan Eastin (Belvedere Room)

3:45pm-4:15pmRodney Van Meter, Keio University
Distributed Management of Density Matrices
4:15pm-4:45pmItay Hen, University of Southern California
Role of classical hardness for quantum annealers
4:45pm-5:15pmKenneth Rudinger, Sandia National Laboratories
Hyper-Accurate Gate Set Tomography
5:15pm-5:45pmJonathan Gross, University of New Mexico, Center for Quantum Information and Control
On the efficacy of weak measurements for tomography

SESSION 9c: Break-out 3, Quantum Information Theory, Chair: Ravi Rau (Treasure Room)

3:45pm-4:15pmMario Berta, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter Caltech
Quantum-proof randomness extractors via hierarchies of semidefinite programs
4:15pm-4:45pmGrant Allen, University of California, San Diego
Polynomial Monogamy Relations
4:45pm-5:15pmJon Yard, Microsoft
Quadratic forms in quantum Hall states
5:15pm-5:45pmGilad Gour, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary
The uncertainty principle in the light of quantum information
7:30pm - 9:30pmBanquet (Angel/Belvedere/Treasure)