PRACQSYS 2007
The Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems


9-13 July 2007
Sydney, Australia


Schedule PRACQSYS 2007

Sunday 8 July    
6:00-8:00pm Reception  
     
Monday 9 July    
9:00-9:25 Opening  
Coherent Feedback    
9:25-10:15 Matthew James Quantum Networks: Modelling, Analysis, and Design
10:15-10:45 Break  
10:45-11:35 Luc Bouten Quantum feedback control and quantum stochastic models
11:35-12:00 Hideo Mabuchi Coherent feedback with dynamic compensation: a practical design study
12:00-3:00 Lunch  
Quantum Optics    
3:00-3:50 Akira Furusawa Quantum teleportation and related quantum information processing
4:50-4:15 Jeremy O'Brien Quantum metrology with multi-photon states
4:15-4:45 Break  
4:45-5:35 Andrew White Experimental demonstration of Shor's algorithm with quantum entanglement
5:35-6:00 Thomas Jennewein Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication with Entangled Photons
     
Tuesday 10 July    
Adaptive Measurements  
9:00-9:25 Howard Wiseman An Overview of Adaptive Measurements
9:25-9:50 Stephen Bartlett Quantum operations and measurements on a qubit using feedback control
9:50-10:15 Elanor Huntington Quantum Optical Adaptive Phase Estimation of Sidebands
10:15-10:45 Break  
10:45-11:20 Dominic Berry Theory of entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation
11:20-12:00 Geoff Pryde Experimental entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation
12:00-2:00 Lunch  
Real-time Feedback Control   
2:00-2:50 Poul Jessen Quantum Control of Atomic Spins
2:50-3:40 Mazyar Mirrahimi Some results on the feedback control of multi-qubit systems
3:40-4:05 Coffee/Tea  
4:05-4:55 Andrew Silverfarb TBA
4:55-8:00pm Poster Session  
     
Wednesday 11 July    
NMR and Molecular Control  
9:00-9:40 Navin Khaneja TBA
9:40-10:15 Robert Zeier Time-optimal synthesis of unitary transformations in coupled slow and fast qubit systems
10:15-10:45 Coffee/Tea  
10:45-11:20 Steffen Glaser Optimal Control of Spin Systems in Liquid-State NMR
11:20-11:55 Niels Chr. Nielsen Optimal control in relation to solid-state NMR spectroscopy: Recent achievements and future challenges
12:00-3:00 Lunch  
3:00-5:00pm Free/Excursion  
     
Thursday 12 July    
Quantum Information Processing  
9:00-9:50 Daniel Lidar Open-Loop Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation
9:50-10:15 Lloyd Hollenberg Fault-tolerant operation and thresholds for quantum computation in silicon
10:15-10:45 Break  
10:45-11:35 Dan Browne Quantum computing by measurements on entangled states
11:35-12:00 Jason Twamley Globally controlled quantum computation and error correction
12:00-3:00 Lunch  
Atom Optics    
3:00-3:50 Joe Hope Atom lasers as a Challenge for Quantum Control
3:50-4:40 Dan Steck Continuous Measurement of Atomic Motion
7pm Conference Banquet  
     
Friday 13 July    
Quantum Stochastic Control Theory  
9:25-10:15 Slava Belavkin Quantum Optimal Nets and Quantum Feedback Chains
10:15-10:45 Break  
10:45-11:10 Madalin Guta Optimal estimation of quantum states with continuous time measurements
11:10-11:35 Naoki Yamamoto Quantum robust filtering
11:35-12:00 Elanor Huntington Laser-Cavity Frequency Locking using Modern Control
12:00-3:00 Lunch  
Emerging Quantum Technologies  
3:00-3:50 Jay Gambetta Quantum optics with microwave photons in circuit QED
3:50-4:15 Dave Kielpinski Novel Optical Technologies for Ion-Trap Quantum Computing
4:15-4:40 Matt Lahaye Coupling Mechanics to Quantum Electronics At the Nanoscale
4:40-5:00 Close