Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

Ninth Annual Meeting, February 16-18, 2007
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

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Saturday 17 February 2007 (finalized)

07:30 - 08:30 Conference Breakfast
SESSION 5 Quantum Metrology and Precision Measurement
Session Chair: Krzysztof Wodkiewicz
08:30 - 09:15 Dirk Bouwmeester, University of California, Santa Barbara (invited)
Quantum state manipulation with photons, solid-state cavity QED systems and micromechanical structures
09:15 - 09:45 Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Labs
Optimal Quantum Measurements
09:45 - 10:15 Morning Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45 Steven T. Flammia, University of New Mexico
Generalized Limits for Single-Parameter Quantum Estimation
10:45 - 11:15 Ben Lev, JILA
Stark decelerated OH: magnetic trapping, precision measurement, and cooling
SESSION 6 Quantum Information Theory
Session Chair: Howard Barnum
11:15 - 12:00 Renato Renner, University of Cambridge (invited)
Quantum information theory without independence assumptions
12:00 - 13:30 Conference Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Peter Hoyer, University of Calgary
Strengthening the quantum adversary method with negative weights
14:00 - 14:30 Andrew Childs, California Institute of Technology
Quantum algorithms for hidden quadratic structures
14:30 - 15:00 Jon Yard, California Institute of Technology
The operational meaning of quantum conditional information
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Coffee Break
SESSION 7 Quantum Control
Session Chair: Hideo Mabuchi
15:30 - 16:30 Navin Khaneja, Harvard University (invited tutorial)
Quantum Control Theory
16:30 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 17:30 JM Geremia, University of New Mexico
Optical Quantum State Discrimination with a Closed-Loop Measurement
17:30 - 18:00 Souma Chaudhury, University of Arizona
Quantum State Control in a Large Spin System
SESSION 8 Poster Session
18:00 - 19:00 Additional Poster Viewing Period
19:00 - Conference Banquet