Annual Report 2005 - Fields Institute - University of Toronto

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David Tannor, Michele Mosca, Aephraim Steinberg and Charlie Bennett Philip H. Bucksbaum (Michigan) Control analysis based on learning feedback experiments Richard Cleve (Calgary) Consequences and limits of nonlocal strategies Claude Crepeau (McGill) Cryptography in a quantum world David DiVincenzo (IBM) Control and decoherence in Josephson junction qubits Mark Dykman (Michigan State) Localizing excitations in a quantum computer with perpetually coupled qubits G e n e r a l S c i e n t i f i c A c t i v i t i e s Mark Eriksson (Wisconsin) Silicon/Silicon-Germanium for quantum computation Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute High fidelity to low weight Manny Knill (NIST) Postselected quantum computation Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) Quantum molecular computing: Optimal control theory for unitary transformations Gershon Kurizki (Weizmann Inst. Science) A unified approach to dynamical control of decoherence Christian Kurtsiefer (Munich) Tools for experimental quantum cryptography Daniel Lidar (Toronto) Hybrid quantum error prevention, reduction, and correction method Raymond Laflamme (Waterloo) Experimental quantum error correction Hoi-Kwong Lo (Toronto) Extending the distance of unconditionally secure quantum key distribution Workshop participants Fields Institute 2005 ANNUAL REPORT 56
Norbert Lütkenhaus (Erlangen) Quantum correlations in quantum cryptography Hideo Mabuchi (Caltech) David Meyer (UCSD) Topological quantum codes Ari Mizel (Penn State) Teleportation in ground state quantum computation Herschel Rabitz (Princeton) The landscape for controlling quantum phenomena Stuart A. Rice (Chicago) Variations on adiabatic passage in optical control of molecular processes Vwani Roychowdhury (UCLA) Marlan Scully (Texas A & M) Peter Shor (MIT) Aephraim M. Steinberg (Toronto) Shedding a bit of information on light: measurement and manipulation of quantum states McMaster Optimization Conference: Theory and Applications (MOPTA 04) July 28–30, 2004 Held at McMaster University - see Commercial Industrial Mathematics section for a description of the event The 4th University of Manitoba Statistics Research Workshop August 4–6, 2004 Held at the University of Manitoba Organizers: Alexandre Leblanc, Lisa Lix, Saumen Mandal and Xikui Wang (Manitoba) This was the first year that the University of Manitoba Statistics Research Workshop was jointly organized by representatives from both the Faculties of Science and Medicine. The goals of the workshop were to promote research collaboration between statisticians and health and social science researchers, and to highlight current develop- G e n e r a l S c i e n t i f i c A c t i v i t i e s ments in both theoretical and applied statistical research. More than 60 participants attended the 2-1/2 day event, which brought together faculty, students, and staff from a variety of departments, universities, and government research departments, in both Canada and USA. The meeting was sponsored by the Fields Institute and the University of Manitoba. The workshop included presentations on both the theory and applications of statistics, probability, and stochastic processes. Emphasis was given to applications in: (1) health and social science research, and (2) economics, business and finance. These topics reflect areas of current research and expertise among members of the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Department of Statistics, respectively. Applications in health and social sciences were the focus of the first day of the workshop. Topics that were addressed included recent developments in random effects models, analysis of longitudinal data, spatial regression analyses, statistical design and analysis of clinical trials, and statistical genetics. Theoretical statistics and applications of statistics in economics, business, and finance were highlighted on the second and third days of the workshop. Topics that were addressed included mathematical finance, bandit models, and GARCH models. Roundtable discussions were organized in the first two days, facilitated by experts in various research areas. Formal evaluation forms were distributed and collected. Feedbacks on both the organization of the workshop and on the coverage of the topics were overwhelmingly positive. Participants appreciated the opportunity for interaction and exchange of research ideas, and the chance to engage in in-depth discussions on specific topics via a series of roundtable sessions. The organizers are planning another workshop in 2006. Speakers: T.M. Beasley (Alabama at Birmingham) Using genetic admixture to control for population stratification and residual confounding J.F. Brewster (Manitoba) Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of a model for SARS transmission D. Chateau and O. Ekuma (Manitoba) Application of hierarchical models to administrative health data Fields Institute 2005 ANNUAL REPORT 57
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