Q+ Suggested Speakers

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4	Dr. Elanor Huntington	Australian National University & CQC2T	Optimal control of quantum optical systems, Quantum phase estimation			Pradeep. N
5	Mohammad H Ansari	TUDelft	Is Shannon entropy doubtful?	Feb-March		MHAnsari	doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.104303	10.1103/PhysRevB.91.174307
6	Dan Browne	UCL		Later in the year		Daniel Burgarth
7	Joe Fitzsimons	CQT Singapore	Experimental verification of quantum computation			Sankalp Ghatpande	Nature Physics doi:10.1038/nphys2763
8	Zoltan Zimboras	Spain	Time symmetry breaking in quantum transport and quantum info			Jacob Biamonte
9	John Bollinger	NIST	Quantum simulation			Mauro Paternostro
10	Aaron D. O'Connell		Quantum Machine			Sankalp Ghatpande
11	Mario Ziman	Bratislava				Teiko Heinosaari
12	Ignacio Cirac	Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik				Daniel Burgarth
13	Daniel Loss					Piotr Cwiklinski
14	Aram Harrow	MIT				Matt Leifer
15	Charlie Bennett	IBM				Matt Leifer
16	Anne Broadbent	IQC	Quantum one-time programs			Joe Fitzsimons
17	Carlos Palazuelos	Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (ICMAT), Madrid	Superactivation of Quantum Nonlocality			Ravi Kunjwal
18	Masanao Ozawa	Nagoya University				M. Sumanth
19	Michael Skotiniotis	Innsbruck	Quantum communication in the presence of CPT superselection			Ian Durham	This is shameless self-promotion.
20	Barry Sanders	Calgary				Ian Durham	In India until end of January.
21	Daniel Lidar	USC				Ian Durham
22	Alan Aspuru-Guzik	Harvard	Quantum coherence in biological systems			Ian Durham
23	Ben Reichardt	USC	A classical leash for a quantum system			Matty Hoban
24	Julia Kempe/Sev Gharibian	Tel-Aviv University/University of Illinois	Hardness of approximation for quantum problems			Piotr Cwiklinski
25	Strelchuk/Horodecki/Oppenheim		Generalized teleportation and entanglement recycling			Oded Regev	http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2683
26	Howard Wiseman	Griffith University	Weak measurements			Matt Leifer
27	Chris Ferrie	University of New Mexico	Uslessness of weak measurements			Matt Leifer	APS14
28	Gilad Gour	University of Calgary	Uncertainty relations			Matt Leifer	APS14
29	Carl Caves (or student)	University of New Mexico	Optimal heralded amplifiers			Matt Leifer	APS14
30	Robin Blume-Kohout	Sandia National Lab	Process tomography			Matt Leifer	APS14
31	Alberto Montina	Universita della Svizzera Italiana	Classical communication complexity of quantum channels			Matt Leifer	APS14
32	John Smolin	IBM	Entertaining anti DWave talk			Matt Leifer	APS14
33	Māris Ozols	University of Cambridge	Quantum walks to find marked element on any graph			Sankalp Ghatpande	arXiv:1002.2419 [quant-ph]
34	Vassilios Karakostas	University of Athens	Realism and objectivism in quantum mechanics			Paul Merriam	http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1203/1203.0179.pdf
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37	David Deutsch	Oxford	Good Explanations	Yes, in a few months		Daniel Burgarth
38	Reinhard Werner	Hannover		Probably, but not immedeatly		Daniel Burgarth
39	IBM Solid State	IBM		No reply		Matt Leifer
40	Matt Hastings	Station Q	Area law and applications	Not sure yet		Daniel Burgarth
41	Hans Briegel	Innsbruck	Quantum actuators	Yes, in principle, ask again mid 2013		Daniel Burgarth
42	Dorit Aharonov	Hebrew University		Probably in autumn term		Daniel Burgarth
43	Michael Biercuk	Sydney	Ion traps	No reply		Daniel Burgarth
44	Patrick Hayden	McGill University	Towards the fast scrambling conjecture	Yes, available during mid-July or end of August (contact for details)		Mark Wilde	APS14
45	Matthew Leifer	UCL	Formulating Quantum Theory as a Causally Neutral Theory of Bayesian Inference	Will think about it. Maybe ask Rob Spekkens instead.		Ravi Kunjwal
46	Michael Nielsen		Reinventing Discovery	Declined. Is taking a break from advocacy to work on new projects		Teiko Heinosaari
47	Jeremy O'Brien	Bristol	Quantum Optics Chips	Yes in principle (no follow up reply)		Daniel Burgarth
48	Aephraim Steinberg	Toronto	Uncertainty principle and weak measurements	No reply		Matt Leifer
49	Frank Verstraete	Vienna		Waiting for reply		Daniel Burgarth
50	David Wineland	NIST		Declined. Too busy, but Didi Leibfried has agreed to be scheduled soon.		Matt Leifer
51	Andy Doherty	Sydney		Sometime after May 2013		Steve Flammia	Sometime after May
52	Ataç İmamoğlu	ETH Zurich	Controlling dynamics of quantum dot spins	Yes in fall 2013		Sankalp Ghatpande
53	John Preskill	Caltech	Fault-tolerant quantum computing with superconducting qubits	No reply		Matt Leifer	APS14
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57	Daniel Gottesman	Perimeter Institute	The overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computing	Yes	5/20/2014	Matt Leifer	APS14
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61	Adrian Kent	University of Cambridge	Unconditionally Secure Bit Commitment with Flying Qudits	Yes	2011-08-23	Matthew Leifer
62	Andreas Winter	University of Bristol	Zero-error communication via quantum channels, non-commutative graphs and a quantum Lovasz theta-function	Yes	2011-09-27	Daniel Burgarth
63	Matthew Pusey	Imperial College	Interpretation of Quantum State	Yes	2011-11-30	Daniel Burgarth
64	Martin Plenio	Universität Ulm	Systems, environment and long-lived coherence	Yes	2011-12-13	Daniel Burgarth
65	Huw Price	Cambridge	Retrocausality	Yes	2012-01-24	Huw Price
66	Lucien Hardy	Perimeter Institute	Operator Tensor Formalism (arXiv:1201.4390)	Yes	2012-02-21	Ravi Kunjwal
67	Jeff Lundeen	NRC Ottawa	Measuring the wavefunction with weak measurements	Yes	2012-03-27	Matt Leifer
68	Jonathan Oppenheim	UCL	Fundamental limitations for quantum and nano thermodynamics (arXiv:1111.3834)	Yes (early March)	2012-04-24	Marco Piani
69	Vlatko Vedral	Oxford	Entanglement (probably)	Yes	2012-08-05	Joe Hooper
70	Joe Fitzsimmons	Singapore	Blind quantum computation	Yes	2012-05-29	Daniel Burgarth
71	Scott Aaronson	MIT	Quantum Money	Yes, prefers during summer after teaching is finished	2012-06-19	Daniel Burgarth
72	Caslav Brukner	Vienna	Quantum correlations with indefinite causal structure	Yes, prefers during summer after teaching is finished	2012-07-24	Matt Leifer
73	Francesco Buscemi	Nagoya University	All Entangled Quantum States Are Nonlocal	Yes, contact him for scheduling for July or August	2012-08-28	Mark Wilde
74	Stephanie Wehner	Singapore	Uncertainty and the generation of randomness	Yes	2012-09-25	Matthew Leifer
75	Markus Müller	Perimeter	Three-dimensionality of space and the quantum bit: how to derive both from information-theoretic postulates (arXiv:1206.0630)	Yes	2012-10-23	Frédéric Grosshans
76	Rob Spekkens	Perimeter		Yes	2012-11-20	Matt Leifer
77	Roger Colbeck	ETH Zurich	No extension of quantum theory can have improved predictive power	Yes	2013-01-29	Mark Wilde
78	Ivette Fuentes	Nottingham	Quantum information processing in spacetime	Yes	2013-03-26	Antje Kohnle
79	Didi Leibfried	NIST		Yes	2013-04-23	Matt Leifer
80	David Poulin	University of Sherbrooke	Tradeoffs Between Thermal and Quantum Fluctuations in 2D Quantum Memories	Yes	2013-05-27	Matt Leifer
81	Bill Wootters	Williams	What is the origin of complex probability amplitudes?	Yes	2013-06-18	Matt Leifer
82	Steve Flammia	University of Sydney	Thermalization, Error-Correction, and Memory Lifetime for Ising Anyon Systems	Yes	2013-07-30	Matt Leifer
83	Renato Renner	ETH Zurich	Does freedom of choice imply that the wave function is real?	Yes	2013-10-29	Piotr Cwiklinski
84	Mark Wilde	Louisiana State University	Strong converse theorems in quantum information theory	Yes	2013-11-26	Daniel Burgarth
85	Troels Frimodt Rønnow	ETH Zurich	Quantum Annealing with 503 qubits	Yes	2014-01-28	Daniel Burgarth
86	Nicholas Brunner	Univeristy of Geneva	Dimension of Physical Systems	Yes	2014-02-25	Daniel Burgarth
87	Tobias Fritz	Perimeter Institute	A Combinatorial Approach to Nonlocality and Contextuality	Yes	2014-03-25	Jonathan Barrett
88	Chris Richardson	University of Liege	Collapse and relativity	Yes	4/22/2014	Matt Leifer
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