QIPIRC

Timetable

QIP IRC Annual Conference 2009

St Anne’s College, Oxford


All lectures will be in the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre (Ruth Deech Building)

Conference Programme


Wednesday 24th June

10:00        Registration

10.30        Coffee

11:00        Introduction and Welcome
                 Professor Andrew Briggs, QIP IRC Director, University of Oxford

11:15        Quantum computing: some recent theory developments from Bristol
                 Professor Richard Jozsa, Bristol University

12:00        Progress on atom chips
                 Professor Ed Hinds, Imperial College

12:45        Break

13:00        Lunch

14:00        Some quantum information applications of many-body systems
                 Professor Sougato Bose, University College London

14:45        Solid state quantum memory or:
                 How I learned to stop worrying about decoherence and love nuclear spins
                 Dr John Morton, University of Oxford

15:30        Break

16:00        Posters and tea

18:00        Photonic bits: how far we have come since the QIP IRC started?
                 Professor Sir Peter Knight, Imperial College

19:00        Drinks

19:30        Dinner

Thursday 25th June

09:00        Coherent optical control of semiconductor quantum dots
                 Dr Andrew Ramsay, University of Sheffield

09:45        Nanoscale and macroscale: the challenge of entanglement and control in
                 non-ideal architectures
                 Dr Simon Benjamin, University of Oxford

10:30        Coffee

11:00        Collective qubits
                 Professor Klaus Molmer, Aarhus University

12:00        QIP IRC
                 Professor Andrew Briggs, University of Oxford

12:45        Break

13:00        Lunch

14:00        Panel

16:00        Posters and tea

18:00        Less reality more security
                 Professor Artur Ekert, University of Oxford

19:00        Drinks

19:30        Dinner

Friday 26th June

09:00        What is a quantum computer, and how do we build one?
                 Dr Pieter Kok, University of Sheffield

09:45        Quantum optical memories and entanglement distribution
                 Professor Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford

10:30        Coffee

11:00        Thresholds for quantum computing in the presence of loss
                 Dr Thomas Stace, University of Queensland

11:45        Correlations and information processing efficiency
                 Professor Vlatko Vedral, University of Oxford

12:30        Lunch

14:00        Depart