Université de Montréal

Summer School on

QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING

16-20 July, 2002

Organizer

Gilles Brassard (Montréal)

PROGRAM

(Lecture Room: M-415, Pavillon Principal, Université de Montréal)

TUESDAY, JULY 16

08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Morning breakfast

09:30 - 10:30 Gilles Brassard
"Introduction to Quantum Information Processing"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Gilles Brassard
"Introduction to Quantum Information Processing"


13:45 - 14:45 Gilles Brassard
"Introduction to Quantum Information Processing"

14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:15 Peter Høyer
"Simple Quantum Algorithms"

16:15 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:30 Alain Tapp
"Quantum Searching and Applications"

17:30 Reception (Hall d'honneur, Pavillon Principal)


WEDNESDAY, JULY 17

08:30 - 09:30 Morning breakfast

09:30 - 10:30 John Watrous
"The Quantum Fourier Transform and Factorization"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 John Watrous
"The Quantum Fourier Transform and Factorization"


13:45 - 14:45 Peter Høyer
"Amplitude Amplification and Applications"

14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:15 Richard Cleve
"Nonlocality and Quantum Communication Complexity"

16:15 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:30 Richard Cleve
"Nonlocality and Quantum Communication Complexity"


THURSDAY, JULY 18

08:30 - 09:30 Morning breakfast

09:30 - 10:30 Daniel Gottesman
"Introduction to Quantum Error Correction and
Fault-Tolerance"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Daniel Gottesman
"Introduction to Quantum Error Correction and
Fault-Tolerance"

13:45 - 14:45 Raymond Laflamme
"Physical Implementations of Quantum Information Processors"

14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:15 Charles Bennett
"Quantum Channels"

16:15 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:30 Charles Bennett
"Quantum Channels"


FRIDAY, JULY 19

08:30 - 09:30 Morning breakfast

09:30 - 10:30 Claude Crépeau
"Theory of Quantum Cryptography"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Claude Crépeau
"Theory of Quantum Cryptography"


13:45 - 14:45 Nicolas Gisin
"Implementation of Quantum Cryptography"

14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:15 Harry Buhrman
"Quantum Lower Bounds (Polynomial Method)"

16:15 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:30 Andris Ambainis
"Quantum Lower Bounds (Adversary Method)"


SATURDAY, JULY 20

More-Advanced-Topics Day

08:30 - 09:30 Morning breakfast

09:30 - 10:30 Andris Ambainis
"Quantum Coin Flipping"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Raymond Laflamme
"Quantum Information Processing and Linear Optics"

13:45 - 14:45 Nicolas Gisin
"Quantum Privacy Amplification"

14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:15 John Watrous
"Quantum Interactive Proofs"