Schedule:
Monday 19 January 2015
- Keynote Speakers. Abstracts
Venue: University Hall, LKC Wing, Level 2 Auditorium
| Official speeches and welcome address | ||
|---|---|---|
| MC: A/Prof. Kwek Leong Chuan (NIE), PI at CQT and Deputy Director at IAS (NTU) | ||
| 13h30-13h35 | Andrew WEE, Vice President University and Global Relations, NUS | |
| 13h35-13h40 | Michael KHOR, Director, Research Support Office & Bibliometrics Analysis, NTU | |
| 13h40-13h45 | His Excellency Mr Benjamin DUBERTRET, Ambassador of France to Singapore | |
| 13h45-13h50 | Luc LE CALVEZ, Head of CNRS Asean Office, Singapore | |
| 13h50-14h00 | Christian MINIATURA, Director of MajuLab, International Joint Research Unit CNRS-UNS-NUS-NTU, Singapore | |
| Keynote Session | ||
| Schedule | Speaker | Title |
| 14h00-15h00 | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Collège de France) | Manipulating Atoms with Photons and Photons with Atoms |
| 15h00-16h00 | Tony Leggett (Urbana-Champaign) | What can we do with a quantum liquid? |
| 16h00-16h30 | coffee/tea break | |
| 16h30-17h30 | Ronald de Wolf (CWI) | Quantum property testing |
| 17h30-18h30 | David Quéré (PHHM and Ecole polytechnique) | Water pearls |
| 18h30 | Cocktail Reception | |
Tuesday 20 January 2015:
- Computer Science session. Abstracts
Venue: CQT Level 3 Seminar Room, S15-03-15
| Schedule | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | ||
| 9h15-10h00 | Troy Lee (CQT, NTU) | Quantum query complexity in expectation |
| 10h00-10h30 | Coffee | |
| 10h30-11h15 | Hartmut Klauck (CQT, NTU) | Communication complexity bounds over distributions with limited information |
| 11h15-12h00 | Dima Gavinsky (Czech Academy of Sciences) | Equality, revisited |
| 12h00-14h00 | Lunch break | |
| Afternoon | ||
| 14h00-14h45 | Iordanis Kerenidis (CNRS) | Privacy in Quantum Communication Complexity |
| 14h45-15h30 | Antonios Varvitsiotis (CQT, NTU) | Determining the existence of perfect quantum strategies for nonlocal games |
| 15h30-16h00 | Coffee break | |
| 16h00-16h45 | Robin Kotari (MIT) | Quantum algorithms for simulating sparse Hamiltonians |
- Soft Matter session. Abstracts
Venue: Hilbert Space, room PAP 02-02, SPMS building, NTU
Except for Tony Leggett’s talk: LT3
| Schedule | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | ||
| 9h00-10h00 | David Quéré (École Polytechnique and ESPCI) | On the Leidenfrost phenomenon (and beyond) |
| 10h00-10h30 | Tomasz Paterek (NTU) | Quantum+ |
| 10h30-11h00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11h00-11h30 | Claus-Dieter Ohl (NTU) | Nanobubbles, do they exist? |
| 11h30-12h30 @LT3 | Tony Leggett (Urbana-Champaign) | The marriage of condensed matter theory and quantum information: some potential honeymoon problem |
| 12h30-14h00 | Lunch break @Peach Garden | |
| Afternoon | ||
| 14h00-15h00 | Fabrice Laussy (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Russian Quantum Center ) | What happens to photon correlations when retaining the frequency information |
| 15h00-15h30 | Christophe Couteau (Université de Technologie de Troyes and NTU) | Towards integrated single photon sources |
| 15h30-16h00 | Sun Handong (NTU) | Microlasers: Flexible fabrication and applications |
| 16h00-16h30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16h30-17h00 | Pinaki Sengupta (NTU) | The Haldane phase – an example of a topological insulator |
| 17h00-17h30 | Gagik Gurzadyan (NTU) | Ultrafast dynamics in molecules, thin films, organic crystals, graphene |
| 17h30-18h00 | David Wilkowski (UMI-NTU-CQT) | An atom/surface Metamaterial Hybrid device |
| 18h00-18h30 | Ivan Shelykh (NTU) | Polariton Spin Transport |
Wednesday 21 January 2015
- Computer Science session. Abstracts
Venue: CQT Level 3 Conference Room, S15-03-18
| Schedule | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | ||
| 10h00-10h30 | Coffee | |
| 10h30-11h15 | Frédéric Magniez (CNRS) | Optimal parallel quantum query algorithms |
| 11h15-12h00 | Stacey Jeffery (Caltech) | Approximate span programs |
| 12h00-14h00 | Lunch break | |
| Afternoon | ||
| 14h00-14h45 | Miklos Santha (CNRS, CQT) | Hidden subgroups and hidden polynomials |
| 14h45-15h30 | Zhaohui Wei (CQT, NTU) | The square root rank of the correlation polytope is exponential |
| 15h30-16h00 | Coffee break | |
| 16h00-16h45 | Jamie Sikora (CQT) | QMA with subset state witnesses |
| 16h45-17h30 | Thomas Vidick (Caltech) | A multiprover interactive proof system for the local Hamiltonian problem |
- Cold Atomic Gases session. Abstracts
Venue: CQT Level 3 Seminar Room, S15-03-15
| Schedule | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | ||
| 9h00-9h45 | Vincent Josse (Institut d’Optique, France) | Weak (and Anderson) localization of ultracold atoms |
| 9h45-10h15 | Cord Müller | The superfluid fraction of disordered Bose-condensates |
| 10h15-10h45 | Gong Jiangbin (NUS) | Coherence-induced correction to quantum adiabatic theorem: Influence of Interband-coherence on adiabatic pumping in periodically driven systems |
| 10h45-11h15 | Coffee break | |
| 11h15-11h45 | Thibault Vogt (CQT) | Excitation of a quantum gas to Rydberg states |
| 11h45-12h15 | Rainer Dumke (NTU) | Superconducting and Cryogenic Atom Chips |
| 12h15-14h15 | Lunch break | |
| Afternoon | ||
| 14h15-15h00 | Mark Goerbig (LPS, Orsay) | Two-dimensional materials beyond graphene — a playground for novel electronic properties |
| 15h00-15h30 | Riadh Rebhi (CQT) | Trapped ions, precision measurements and beyond |
| 15h30-16h00 | David Wilkowski (UMI-CQT-NTU) | Cooperative phenomena in optically thick scattering medium |
| 16h00-16h30 | Coffee break | |
| 16h30-17h00 | Pinaki Sengupta (NTU) | Strange correlations in symmetry protected topological phases |
| 17h00-17h30 | Dario Poletti (SUTD) | Emergent quantum many-body physics in driven Hamiltonians and in Dissipative systems |
- Conference dinner (details coming soon)
Thursday 22 January 2015
- Quantum Information session. Abstracts
Venue: CQT Level 3 Seminar Room, S15-03-15
| Schedule | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | ||
| 9h00-9h40 | Dario Poletti (SUTD) | Quantum Heat Engines: Otto cycles in Power-Law Trapping Potentials |
| 9h45-10h25 | Joe Fitzsimmon (SUTD) | Towards quantum homomorphic encryption |
| 10h30-11h00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11h00-11h40 | Tomasz Paterek (SPMS, NTU) | Random correlations and quantum entanglement |
| 11h45-12h25 | Leonid Krivitsky (DSI -A*Star) | Interaction of biological photodetectors with quantum light |
| 12h30-14h00 | Lunch break | |
| Afternoon | ||
| 14h00-14h40 | Qinghai Wang (NUS) | Stabilizing non-Hermitian systems by periodic driving |
| 14h45-15h25 | Hui Khoon Ng (Yale-NUS) | Fighting quantum noise |
| 15h30-16h10 | Coffee Break | |
| 16h15-16h55 | Zilong Chen (DSI -A*Star) | Generation of atomic spin squeezed states by cavity-aided measurements |
| 17h00-17h40 | Teck Seng Koh (MOE) | A semiconductor quantum dot spin-charge hybrid qubit |