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2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Boston, MA, October 5-6, 2002
Meeting #979

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Special Session on Quantum Information Theory

  • Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, I

    Room 70, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
    Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Entanglement and Quantum Error Correction.
      Michael D Westmoreland*, Denison University
      (979-81-183)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Continuous-time quantum error correction.
      C S Ahn, Caltech
      A C Doherty, Caltech
      A J Landahl*, MIT
      (979-81-139)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Empirically Combining Methods of Quantum Error Correction and Avoidance.
      Mark S. Byrd*, Harvard University
      Daniel A. Lidar, University of Toronto
      (979-81-96)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Quantum Dynamical Semigroup Tomography.
      Timothy F Havel*, MIT
      (979-15-81)
  • Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, II

    Room 70, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
    Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Introduction to bidirectional channels.
      Charles A Bennett, IBM Research
      Aram W Harrow, MIT
      Debbie W Leung, IBM Research
      John A Smolin*, IBM Research
      (979-81-221)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Classical communication with bidirectional channels.
      Charles H Bennett, IBM
      Aram W Harrow*, MIT
      Debbie W Leung, IBM
      John A Smolin, IBM
      (979-81-211)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Capacities of quantum bidirectional channels.
      Charles H Bennett, IBM
      Aram W Harrow, MIT and IBM
      Debbie W Leung*, IBM and MSRI
      John A Smolin, IBM
      (979-81-182)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Entanglement capacity of the Ising and anisotropic Heisenberg interactions.
      Andrew M Childs*, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
      (979-81-103)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Practical High-Speed Quantum Cryptography.
      Gerald N Gilbert*, MITRE
      (979-81-216)
  • Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, III

    Room 70, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
    Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Exponential speedup via quantum random walk.
      Sam Gutmann*, Northeastern University
      (979-81-121)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Conditions for Equality in the Strong Subadditivity Inequality.
      Andreas Winter*, University of Bristol
      Patrick Hayde, Institution for Quantum Information, Caltech
      Richard Jozsa, University of Bristol
      (979-94-87)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Quantum Channels with Limited Access.
      Neal G. Anderson*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
      (979-81-185)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      The communication cost of entanglement transformations.
      Patrick Hayden*, California Institute of Technology
      Sumit Daftuar, California Institute of Technology
      Andreas Winter, University of Bristol
      (979-81-243)
  • Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, IV

    Room 70, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
    Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu

    • 2:00 p.m.
      Discussion.
    • 2:30 p.m.
      Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem.
      Charles H. Bennett*, IBM Research Division
      (979-94-239)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Application of operator space methods to conditional expectation and completely positive maps in $L_p$ spaces.
      Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      (979-46-151)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Entanglement Breaking Channels.
      M. Beth Ruskai*, Arlington, MA
      (979-81-69)
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