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The Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations typically organises seminars on Thursdays of full term at 2.15pm in room MR4 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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If you have a question about this list, please contact: Dr Adrian Kent; Sergii Strelchuk; Ashley Montanaro; Paul Skrzypczyk; Richard Jozsa; William Matthews. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

2 upcoming talks and 131 talks in the archive.

Magic-State Distillation in All Prime Dimensions Using Quantum Reed-Muller Codes

UserEarl Campbell (Freie Universität Berlin).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism and its scalar boson

UserProfessor François Englert - Université libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 14:45-16:00

Stability of local quantum dissipative systems

UserAngelo Lucia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

A sheaf-theoretic approach to the contextuality of cluster states

UserRaymond Lal (University of Oxford).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Quantum control of continuous variables

UserAlessio Serafini (UCL).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 02 May 2013, 14:15-15:15

Noise effects and non-Markovianity in an otherwise perfect transfer protocol

UserFabio Benatti (University of Trieste).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Information techniques for detecting Topological Order

UserJiannis Pachos (University of Leeds).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

Limitations on the psi-epistemic view of quantum states

UserOwen Maroney (University of Oxford).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Some recent results on quantum nonlocality

UserCarlos Palazuelos (Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Madrid).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Shaking Entanglement

UserNicolai Friis (University of Nottingham).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 14:15-15:15

Lessons for Foundations of Quantum Mechanics from Quantum Gravity

UserFay Dowker (Imperial College London).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Continuous-variables graph state generation and reconstruction

UserAlessandro Ferraro (University of Sussex).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

Freudenthal triple classification of 3-qubit entanglement

UserLeron Borsten (Imperial College London).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Control: reachability, recurrence & perhaps complexity

UserDaniel Burgarth (Aberystwyth University).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Quantum information causality

UserDamian Pitalua-Garcia (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Processing quantum information with relativistic motion of atoms

UserEduardo Martin-Martinez (University of Waterloo).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Estimating multipartite entanglement with few local measurements

UserMarcus Huber (University of Bristol).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Finite blocklength converse bounds for quantum channels

UserWill Matthews (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 14:15-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topics in Quantum Entropy and Entanglement

Spectral Theory of Relativistic Operators

UserLieb, E (Princeton University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 13 August 2012, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Limits on Noise in Linear Amplifiers

UserCarlton M. Caves (Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico; and Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems, University of Queensland).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 19 July 2012, 12:00-13:00

Different permutations are almost orthogonal

UserAram Harrow (University of Washington).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 July 2012, 12:00-13:00

Preparing topological states on a quantum computer

UserToby Cubitt (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 10 July 2012, 14:15-15:15

Improving Quantum Query Complexity of Boolean Matrix Multiplication Using Graph Collision

Note change of time and room

UserRobin Kothari (IQC).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 05 July 2012, 12:00-13:00

A remarkable representation of the Clifford group

Please note change of room.

UserSteve Brierley (University of Bristol).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

Philosophical Foundations of Aharonov-Bohm-"type" Phenomena

Please note change of room.

UserNicholas Teh.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

Quantum States: Are they the real thing?

*** Please note change of time and room ***

UserTerry Rudolph (Imperial College London).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Universal Blind Quantum Computation with Weak Coherent Pulses

UserVedran Dunjko (Heriot-Watt University).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

Is the end of the Standard Model nigh ?

UserProfessor John Ellis, FRS Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics - King's College London..

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 14:45-16:00

Free randomness can be amplified

UserRenato Renner (ETH Zurich).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Robust Self testing and Non-locality

UserTzyh Haur Yang (National University of Singapore).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 14:15-15:15

Paradoxes of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

UserLev Vaidman (Tel Aviv University).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 05 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Pilot-wave theory and quantum fields

UserWard Struyve (KU Leuven).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Quantum correlations versus entanglement in composite systems

UserGerardo Adesso (University of Nottingham).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Retrocausality - what would it take?

UserHuw Price (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

A class of quantum field states inside the `physical corner of Hilbert space'

UserDavid Jennings (Imperial College London).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Spacetime Quantum Mechanics: 20 Years On

UserJames Yearsley (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

The Link between Uncertainty Relations and Non-Locality

UserMarco Tomamichel (ETH Zurich).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Too Good to be True? Precisely! The Real Cost of Non-Standard Computation

UserEd Blakey (University of Bristol).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Strongly driven coherent quantum systems

UserDieter Jaksch (University of Oxford).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

The non-additivity saga continues: entanglement of purification

UserAndreas Winter (University of Bristol).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Reading of Digital Memories

UserStefano Pirandola (University of York).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 14:15-15:15

Renyi relative entropies in quantum information theory

UserMilan Mosonyi (University of Bristol).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Unifying typical entanglement and coin tossing: on randomization in probabilistic theories

UserOscar Dahlsten (University of Oxford/National University of Singapore).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Perspectives on Information Causality

UserSabri Al-Safi (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Inverting the central limit theorem

UserMiguel Navascues (University of Bristol).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

The semantics and unitarity of measurement-based computations

UserNeil de Beaudrap (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

A compact entanglement distillery

UserAnimesh Datta (University of Oxford).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Almost Quantum Theory

UserMichael Westmoreland (Denison University).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 29 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Using Berry's phase to detect the Unruh effect at lower accelerations

UserIvette Fuentes (University of Nottingham).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

A one-shot family tree of quantum protocols

UserNilanjana Datta (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 02 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

The Nature of True Mathematical Physics

UserProfessor Ludwig Faddeev, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, St Petersburg.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 May 2011, 14:45-16:00

On Computational Power of Classical and Quantum Branching Programs

UserFarid Ablayev (University of Kazan).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Small thermal machines

UserPaul Skrzypczyk (CQIF).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

On Telescopes and Cuckoo Clocks

UserKoenraad Audenaert (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

Position-Based Quantum Cryptography: Impossibility and Constructions

UserChristian Schaffner (CWI).

HouseMR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Strong subadditivity of entropy: when is it (nearly) saturated?

UserAndreas Winter (University of Bristol).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Entropy of a correlation matrix and (in)fidelity between several quantum states

UserKarol Zyczkowski (Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

An informational derivation of Quantum Theory

UserGiulio Chiribella (Perimeter Institute).

HouseMR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 14:15-15:15

NP-hardness of decoding quantum error correction codes

UserMin-Hsiu Hsieh (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 14:15-15:15

Information causality

UserMarcin Pawlowski (University of Bristol).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Causality, Bell's Theorem and Ontic Definiteness

UserJoe Henson (Perimeter Institute).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Beyond the quantum

UserAntony Valentini (Imperial College).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

The smallest possible heat engines and refrigerators

UserSandu Popescu (University of Bristol).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

An area law for the entropy of low-energy states

UserLluis Masanes (ICFO).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Low-dimensional quite noisy bound entanglement with cryptographic key

UserLukasz Pankowski (University of Gdansk).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Separations between quantum and classical one-way communication complexity

UserAshley Montanaro (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Determining a class of symmetric multiqubit pure states from its parts

UserSudha Shenoy (Kuvempu University).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

The Princess and the EPR pair

UserAram Harrow (University of Bristol).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 03 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

AMOP list

Collective qubits and hybrid schemes for quantum computing

UserKlaus Moelmer (University of Aarhus, Denmark).

HouseRutherford building, Seminar Room B.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Quantum theory from four requirements

UserLluis Masanes (ICFO).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

Phase Transitions: Scaling, Universality and Renormalization

UserProfessor Leo P. Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 14:45-16:00

An efficient test for product states

UserAshley Montanaro.

HouseMR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Can we derive quantum formalism from first principles?

Out of term informal talk

UserShmuel Marcovitch (University of Tel Aviv).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 01 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Probabilistic theories with purification

UserGiulio Chiribella (Perimeter Institute).

HouseMR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Memories

UserDr Alastair Kay (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Entropy in general physical theories

UserTony Short (CQC).

HouseMR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Non-Locality Beyond Quantum Theory

UserDamian Pitalua-Garcia.

HouseMR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Indeterminism and Decoherence in Standard Quantum Theory

UserChristian Schilling, ETH Zurich.

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

On minimum reversible entanglement generating sets

UserFernando Brandao, Imperial College London.

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Measurement process in superconducting flux qubit

UserSergei Strelchuk (Cambridge CQC).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Information and Computer Networks

UserJuan Carlos Garcia Escartin (Cambridge CQC ).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Bell-based Quantum Key Distribution

UserLluis Masanes, University of Barcelona.

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Highly Entangled States With Almost No Secrecy

UserMatthias Christandl, LMU Munich.

HouseMR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Relative entropies and entanglement monotones

UserNilanjana Datta (Cambridge).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Indirect Hamiltonian Estimation and Restricted Control

UserDaniel Burgarth (Imperial College London).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

From Plato to Quarks and Back

UserProfessor Alexander Polyakov (Princeton).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 14:45-16:00

A photonic cluster state machine gun

UserTerry Rudolph (Imperial College London).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Relative Entropy of Entanglement and Restricted Measurements

UserMarco Piani (IQC, Waterloo).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

The Bohrification of quantum logic

This is not an official CQC Seminar

UserKlaas Landsman (Nijmegen).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 03 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

In support of ontic view of quantum states

UserBerry Groisman (CQC Cambridge).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Quantum privacy: introducing mutual independence

UserJonathan Oppenheim.

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Monogamy, entanglement and deep hidden variables

UserMichael Seevinck (Utrecht).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Realistic quantum-enhanced phase estimation

UserKonrad Banaszek.

HouseMR10, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Ancilla-Driven Quantum Computation and Twisted Graph States

UserDaniel Oi (Strathclyde).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Quantum graphity: a model of emergent locality in quantum gravity

UserFotini Markopoulou (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 08 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Secure decoupling of quantum systems: how to shred quantum information

UserFrancesco Buscemi (CQC Cambridge).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Simulating Time Travel

The talk will be informal.

UserCharlie Bennett (IBM).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 01 December 2008, 14:30-15:30

CQC seminar: Sandu Popescu

UserSandu Popescu.

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

CQC seminar: Sandu Popescu

UserSandu Popescu.

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Information and Ultracold Atomic Gases

Note the room (MR4)

UserMaciej Lewenstein, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Barcelona.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

CQC Seminar: Joonwoo Bae

UserJoonwoo Bae.

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 18 April 2007, 16:00-17:00

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