Conference Program
 
QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE

February 27 - March 4, 2005
Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express
Ventura, CA

Chairs:
Wilfred G. Van Der Wiel, Leo P. Kouwenhoven & Seigo Tarucha

Vice Chairs:
Ignacio Cirac & Peter Zoller

SUNDAY
4:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmTo be and not to be, that's the qubit
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Daniel Loss (U. Basel)
7:40 pm - 8:35 pmAnthony Leggett
"Testing quantum mechanics in the direction of the everyday world"
8:35 pm - 9:30 pmStu Wolf (DARPA)
"A Wolf's Eye View of Quantum Information Science"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 am Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSuperconductor qubits I
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: John Martinis (UCSB)
9:10 am - 10:05 amKees Harmans (Delft)
"Superconducting Flux-Qubits"
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:30 amIrfan Siddiqi (Yale)
"Using a Dynamical Bifurcation to Readout a Quantum Bit"
11:30 am - 12:25 pmYuri Pashkin (RIKEN, NEC)
"Charge qubits: coupling, CNOT and energy relaxation"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmCavity QED
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Jeff Kimble (Caltech)
7:40 pm - 8:35 pmSerge Haroche (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
"Giant atoms and photons in a box: a bottom-up approach to mesoscopic physics"
8:35 pm - 9:30 pmRob Schoelkopf (Yale)
"Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Doing Quantum Optics on a Chip"
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSpins in semiconductors I
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: Alex Rimberg (Dartmouth College)
9:10 am - 10:05 amElisa Molinari (Modena)
“Theory of quantum dots”
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:30 amHongWen Jiang (UCLA)
"Single electron spin detection in Si-based semiconductor structures"
11:30 am - 12:25 pmKeiji Ono (RIKEN)
"Nuclear spin effects in quantum dots"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSpins in semiconductors II
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Charlie Marcus (Harvard)
7:40 pm - 8:35 pm Lieven Vandersypen (Delft)
"Electron spin qubits in quantum dots"
8:35 pm - 9:30 pmSankar Das Sarma (Maryland)
"Perspectives on semiconducting spin qubits"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSpins and optics
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Stanford)
9:10 am - 10:05 amRobert Clark (UNSW)
"Progress towards the demonstration of single atom qubits in silicon"
10:05 amCoffee Break
10:35 am - 11:30 amJonathan Finley (Walter Schottky, Munich)
"Optically probing charge and spin states"
11:30 am - 12:25 pmYuichiro Kato (UCSB)
"Current-induced electron spin polarization and the spin Hall effect in semiconductors"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session II
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNanophotonics and quantum control
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Evelyn Hu (QUEST)
7:40 pm - 8:35 pmJelena Vuckovic (Stanford)
"Nanophotonic devices for quantum information science"
8:35 pm - 9:30 pmDan Gammon (NRL)
"Perspective on exciton qubits"
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmQuantum Optics I
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: Mark Sherwin (UCSB)
9:10 am - 10:05 am Mikhail Lukin (Harvard)
"Strong coupling of light and matter: new approaches and applications"
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:30 amHideo Mabuchi (CalTech)
"Measurement and control in quantum information science"
11:30 am - 12:25 pmBoris Blinov (Michigan)
"Entangled states of ions ang photons for scalable quantum computing"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmQuantum optics II
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Dik Bouwmeester (UCSB)
7:40 pm - 8:35 pmAtac Imamoglu (ETH)
"Quantum optics using quantum dots"
8:35 pm - 9:30 pmIgnacio Cirac (MPI)
"Quantum information processing and simulations with quantum optical systems"
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

Last Updated: May 4, 2006