Mini-Symposium on Quantum Computing
College Station, Texas
May 4 - May 6, 2001

Program

The Mini-Symposium will be held in the Hilton hotel in College Station. The event was made possible by kind support of the Santa Fe Institute. A total of 14 invited talks from national and international experts gives an overview over various aspects of Quantum Computing.

Friday, May 4

6:00-9:00pmRECEPTION

Saturday, May 5

8:45-9:00WELCOME

9:00-9:40Marlan Scully (TAMU)
.What is the Big Deal About Quantum Computing?
9:40-10:20M. Suhail Zubairy (TAMU)
.Implementation of Quantum Computing Algorithms

10:40-11:20Thomas Walther (TAMU)
.From Entanglement of Atoms to an Atom Based Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment
11:20-12:00David Church (TAMU)
.Prospects for Computation using Cold, Confined, Multiply-Charged Ions

12:00-1:20LUNCH BREAK

1:20-2:00Mary-Beth Ruskai (UML)
.Capacity of Noisy Quantum Channels: Recent Results and Open Questions
2:00-2:40Cris Moore (UNM,SFI)
.Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms and Quantum Walks on the Hypercube

3:00-3:40Martin Rötteler (U Karlsruhe)
.Efficient Quantum Signal Transforms and Quantum Software Reusability
3:40-4:20Ron Spencer (TAMU)
.Spectral Associative Memories
4:20-5:00Dan Ventura (PSU)
.Quantum Neural Computing

Sunday, May 6

8:20-9:00Chuck Bowden (Redstone Arsenal, Alabama)
.Universality in Quantum Computation
9:00-9:40Ranee Brylinski (PSU)
.Universal Quantum Gates

10:00-10:40Goong Chen (TAMU)
.Remarks on the Optimality Proof of a Multiobject Quantum Search Algorithm
10:40-11:20Jean-Luc Brylinski (PSU)
.Deformations of Quantum Codes
11:20-12:00Andreas Klappenecker (TAMU)
.The Magical World of Clifford Codes

Organizer: Andreas Klappenecker, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3112, Phone (979) 458 0608, FAX (979) 847 8578

The Mini-Symposium is sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute