CQIF Seminar

Classification of quantum states under k-local and sequential quantum circuits

Arpit Dua, Virginia Tech.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85955101140?pwd=SUdqb25Ic1RSRDBKQmtPcG9UQ095Zz09.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

CQIF Seminar

Dynamical magic transitions in monitored Clifford+T circuits

Mircea-Andrei Bejan, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Statistical Query Learning

Vojtěch Havlíček, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

MR9.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Fast navigation with icosahedral golden gates

Zachary Stier, UC Berkeley.

MR2.

Thursday 11 January 2024, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Exact dynamics and hydrophobicity in constrained circuits: classical and quantum Floquet East models

Juan P. Garrahan, University of Nottingham.

MR2.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Classically simulating quantum computations

Oliver Reardon-Smith, Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

MR2.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Constant-depth circuits for Uniformly Controlled Gates and Boolean functions with application to quantum memory circuits

Alessandro Luongo, CQT, National University of Singapore.

MR2.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Efficient Quantum State Synthesis with One Query

Gregory Rosenthal, CST, University of Cambridge .

MR2.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Squaring the circle - quantum consequences

Michael Wolf (TU Munich).

MR3.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

What dimension is necessary for quantum correlations in the commuting operator framework?

Lauritz van Luijk (Leibniz University Hannover).

MR2.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Noisy decoding by shallow circuit with parities: classical and quantum

Davi Silva (QuSoft).

MR9.

Friday 20 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Non-Locality in Networks

Nicolas Gisin, Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

MR2.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Time-Efficient Constant-Space-Overhead Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Hayata Yamasaki, University of Tokyo.

MR9 (Ground Floor Pavillion B).

Thursday 28 September 2023, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Spectral properties of quantum channels and applications

Mizanur Rahaman, ENS Lyon.

MR2.

Thursday 21 September 2023, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Fine-Grained Complexity

Subhasree Patro, Utrecht University and QuSoft, CWI.

MR2.

Thursday 24 August 2023, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Two results on the stabiliser formalism

Nadish de Silva.

MR14.

Tuesday 01 August 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

A unified graph-theoretic framework for free-fermion solubility

Sam Elman (UTS Sydney).

MR14.

Friday 21 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

Combinatorial Theory of Matrix Spaces and Its Applications in Quantum Information

Yinan Li.

MR14.

Wednesday 19 July 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The grasshopper problem

Olga Goulko and David Llamas (UMass Boston) .

MR19.

Thursday 22 June 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Relating non-locality and device-independent randomness

Roger Colbeck, University of York.

MR2.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum state tomography via non-convex Riemannian gradient descent

Wei-Hsuan Yu (俞韋亘), National Central University.

MR4.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 14:00-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Pseudoentanglement

Soumik Ghosh, University of Chicago.

MR14.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 14:00-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Nature of Gravity through a Table-Top Experiment

Sougato Bose, University College London.

MR2.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

Learning in a quantum world

Professor John Preskill - California Institute of Technology.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:30-16:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum reference frames for gravity

Caslav Brukner, University of Vienna.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

A Semantics for Counterfactuals in Quantum Causal Models

Eric Cavalcanti, Griffith University.

Zoom.

Friday 05 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum divide and conquer

Andrew Childs (University of Maryland).

Zoom.

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 15:00-16:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum gravity experiments: a biased overview

Daniel Carney, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

MR2.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum cryptographic insights into black holes

Renato Renner, ETH Zurich.

MR2.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The sum-of-squares for fermionic systems, and the SYK model

Matthew Hastings (Microsoft Research).

Via Zoom.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum reference frames: a relational perspective on nonclassical spacetime

Flaminia Giacomini, ETH Zurich.

MR2.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Temporal correlations under finite-memory constraints

Lucas Vieira Barbosa, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

Zoom.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

An Improved Approximation Algorithm for Quantum Max-Cut

Robbie King, California Institute of Technology.

Zoom.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Worst-case to Average-case reductions for all linear problems

Sathyawageeswar Subramanian, University of Warwick.

MR15.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:15-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Simulation of quantum circuits with tensor networks

Pan Zhang, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Zoom.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Fundamental limits on Correlated Catalytic State Transformations

Roberto Rubboli, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore.

Zoom.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum machine learning from a theoretical perspective

Ronald de Wolf (QuSoft, CWI and University of Amsterdam).

Zoom: https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99470224885?pwd=Uk9SbGhhNmFVWnVLQnB6Q0h4TWtXZz09.

Friday 01 July 2022, 14:00-15:15

CQIF Seminar

On the discrimination of quantum measurements

Aleksandra Krawiec, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Entanglement in a qubit-qubit-tardigrade system

Kai Sheng Lee, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Zoom.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

The entropy of Hawking Radiation.

Professor Juan Maldacena - Institute for Advanced Studies.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:30-16:00

CQIF Seminar

Witnesses of non-classicality beyond quantum theory

Chiara Marletto, Physics Department, University of Oxford.

Zoom.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The structure of noncontextuality, in particular for the stabilizer subtheory

Matthew Pusey, University of York.

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Perspective-neutral approach to quantum frame covariance

Philipp Höhn, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

Zoom.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Anomalous Distillation of Metrological Quantum Information

David Arvidsson Shukur, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Time symmetry in operational quantum theory

Lucien Hardy, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Zoom.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Reducing the Expected Runtime of Grover Search

Johannes Bausch, Google.

Zoom.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum computing and the classical complexity of computational counting

Miriam Backens, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The measurement postulates are redundant

Lluis Masanes, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Levitating nanodiamond experiments: towards a test of quantum gravity

Gavin W Morley, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, UK.

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Routed quantum circuits

Hlér Kristjánsson, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Efficient Algorithms for Approximating Quantum Partition Functions

Ryan Mann, University of Bristol.

MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Towards a Space Quantum Internet

Daniel Oi, University of Strathclyde.

MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Contextuality in quantum mechanics and quantum computations

Please use face mask (unless exempt), do not consume any food or drinks, and keep socially distanced, in order to comply with the department's covid-19 guidelines.

Farid Shahandeh, Department of Physics, Swansea University.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Port-based teleportation performance for teleporting large quantum systems

Michal Studzinski, The University of Gdansk.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Cayley path and quantum supremacy: Average case #P-Hardness of random circuit sampling

Ramis Movassagh, IBM Research.

Zoom.

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Sevag Gharibian, University of Paderborn.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum linear network coding for entanglement distribution in restricted architectures

Steven Herbert.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Continuous groups of transversal gates for quantum error correcting codes from finite clock reference frames

Mischa Woods (ETH Zurich, Swizerland).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

One-out-of-m spacetime-constrained oblivious transfer

Damian Pitalua-Garcia (CQIF, DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 15:15-15:45

CQIF Seminar

Versions of Quantum Oblivious Transfer

Erika Andersson (Heriot-Watt University) .

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:30-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Information and Relativistic Causality: distinguishing quantum states instantaneously

Boris Groisman (CQIF, DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories: towards a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration

Damian Pitalua-Garcia (CQIF, DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:30-17:00

CQIF Seminar

An Introduction to S-money

Adrian Kent (CQIF, DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-16:30

CQIF Seminar

Towards easier protocols for quantum position-verification

Andreas Bluhm (University of Copenhagen).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:45-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum position verification with experimental constraints

Florian Speelman (University of Amsterdam) .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:15-14:45

CQIF Seminar

Optimal quantum measurements and applications in cryptographic tasks

Sarah Croke (University of Glasgow) .

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

CQIF Seminar

A Quantum Search Decoder for Natural Language Processing

Johannes Bausch (University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Zeno goes to Copenhagen

Kelvin McQueen.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Tradeoff relations between accessible information, informational power, and purity

Michele Dall'Arno.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Randomized benchmarking on the Clifford group and beyond

Jonas Helsen, QuTech, Delft University.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum advantage with shallow circuits (Bravyi-Gosset-König)

Nadish de Silva, University of Cambridge.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Investigating obfuscation using quantum homomorphic encryption

Florian Speelman, CWI.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The Quantum Strong Exponential-Time Hypothesis

Harry Buhrman.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for Learning and Loading Random Distrubitions

Christa Zoufal, IBM Research/ETH.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Expectation Maximization and algorithms for learning representations

Alessandro Luongo (IRIF, Paris).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Monads, comonads and resource-limited computation

Adam Ó Conghaile.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Speedup for Graph Sparsification, Cut Approximation and Laplacian Solving

Simon Apers, INRIA and CWI.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

On recent developments in quantum zero-error information theory

Yinan Li, CWI.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Chain rule for quantum relative entropies and their applications in quantum information theory

Kun Fang, DAMTP.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Compatibility of quantum measurements and inclusion constants for free spectrahedra

Andreas Bluhm, QMATH at University of Copenhagen.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Optimal probabilistic storage and retrieval of unitary channels

Michal Sedlák, Slovak Academy of Sciences.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum advantage from energy measurements

Leonardo Goncalves Novo, QuIC, Université libre de Bruxelles.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum-inspired low-rank stochastic regression with logarithmic dependence on the dimension

Andras Gilyen, QuSoft / CWI / University of Amsterdam.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Generalized quantum measurements

Yan Pautrat (Orsay, France).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum algorithms from foundations to applications

Ashley Montanaro, University of Bristol.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

The Computational Complexity of the Ground State Energy Density Problem

James Watson (UCL).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

When is a Hamiltonian Stoquastic?

Joel Klassen, TU Delft.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Grover's algorithm, databases and quantum machine learning

Aram Harrow (MIT).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Dirac Lecture

From fractional quantum Hall effect to field-theoretic dualities

Professor Dam Thanh Son University of Chicago.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 14:30-16:00

CQIF Seminar

Hong-Ou-Mandel effect under partial time reversal: a destructive interference effect in the amplification of light

Nicolas J. Cerf (Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Logical paradoxes in quantum computation

Nadish de Silva.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Multi-partite subspaces containing no non-local information

Sarah Croke (University of Glasgow).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Biology, Mathematics and Quantum Information: A symposium in memory of Graeme Mitchison

Graeme Segal, Robert Koenig, Matthias Christandl, Aram Harrow, Richard Jozsa, .....

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Saturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-16:00

CQIF Seminar

Controlled results in quantum many-body physics: from a dream to reality

Olga Goulko (Boise State).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Spatial Isolation Implies Zero Knowledge Even in a Quantum World

Dr Tom Gur (University of Warwick).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

A new approach to prove von Neumann inequalities

David Sutter (ETH).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

S-money: virtual tokens for a relativistic economy

Adrian Kent (Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) .

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Fast-Forwarding: Markov Chains and Graph Property Testing

Simon Apers, INRIA.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Energy exchanges in open quantum systems, applied to quasi-free fermions.

Simon Andreys.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Post-selected Classical Query Complexity

Chris Cade (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Port-based teleportation stretching of adaptive protocols and conditional channel simulation

Riccardo Laurenza.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Probing the Quantum Coherent Behaviour of Gravity

Sougato Bose.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Asymptotic performance of port-based teleportation

Felix Leditzky.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation and recent advances in quantum annealing

Georg Hahn.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Multi-agent paradoxes in quantum theory & Discovering physical principles with neural networks(2 mini talks)

Nuriya Nurgalieva & Lídia del Río.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Pure state separable transformations which are not possible via LOCC & coarse-gaining of entanglement classes

Martin Hebenstreit.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Classical approximations of quantum Hamiltonian dynamics with the Nyström method

Andrea Rocchetto (University of Oxford and UCL).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Computing Hackathon

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 June 2018, 10:00-14:00

CQIF Seminar

On Superposition, Interference and Feynman paths

Urbasi Sinha.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 21 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Dirac Lecture

Symmetries, Duality, and the Unity of Physics

All are welcome to attend.

Professor Nathan Seiberg (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton)..

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 May 2018, 14:30-16:00

CQIF Seminar

Approximate randomized benchmarking for finite groups

Daniel Stilck França, TU Munich.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Lecture room MR5.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Why and how to program a quantum computer

Will Zeng, Rigetti.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Lecture room MR5.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

CQIF Seminar

On Composite Quantum Hypothesis Testing

Mario Berta (Imperial).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quasi-factorization of the quantum relative entropy

Ángela Capel Cuevas (ICMAT).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Classical simulation of photonic linear optics with lost particles

Michał Oszmaniec .

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Heilbronn Quantum Algorithms Meeting 2018

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 09:30-17:30

CQIF Seminar

Axiomatic information thermodynamics

Ben Schumacher (Kenyon College, Ohio).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Locality at the boundary implies gap in the bulk for 2D PEPS

Michael Kastoryano.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Metrics on quantum channels: issues, fixes, applications

Andreas Winter, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Recent developments in variational quantum algorithms

Yudong Cao, Harvard.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

On Classical Tractability of Quantum Schur Sampling

Vojtech Havlicek, University of Oxford.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Error Exponent Analysis in Quantum Shannon Theory

Hao-Chung Cheng.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The information content of quantum sources

Giulio Chiribella, Oxford.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantifying the effect of interactions in many-body systems

Jiannis Pachos, Leeds.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Universal points in the asymptotic spectrum of tensors

Matthias Christandl, University of Copenhagen.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

CQIF Seminar

The Quantum Complexity of Computing Schatten p-norms

Chris Cade, University of Bristol.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Entanglement fluctuation theorems

Lluis Masanes, UCL.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The learnability of stabiliser states and DNF formulae

Andrea Rocchetto.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum information and the Planck scale

Achim Kempf, University of Waterloo.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

An alternative proof of the Shannon-McMillan theorem for ergodic quantum lattice systems

Yoshiko Ogata, Tokyo.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Moderate and Large Deviation Analysis for C-Q Channels

Min-Hsiu Hsieh.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

All-photonic quantum networks

Koji Azuma, NTT Basic Research Laboratories.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Absolutely Maximally Entangled States In Quantum Error Correction and Holography

Pawel Mazurek, University of Gdansk.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum states cannot be transmitted efficiently classically

Ashley Montanaro, Bristol.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 12 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Dirac Lecture

Antimatter: Dirac's incredible prediction and its consequences

All are welcome to attend.

Professor Helen Quinn (Harvard).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-16:00

CQIF Seminar

On the quantum capacity of the qubit depolarizing channel

Felix Leditzky, JILA, University of Colorado Boulder.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Self-testing of binary observables based on commutation

Jed Kaniewski.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Some new insights on multipartite entanglement

Barbara Kraus, Universität Innsbruck.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Bell nonlocality from bound entanglement

Tamas Vertesi.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Certifying Randomness in quantum theory

Paul Skrzypczyk, University of Bristol.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Leggett Garg Inequalities: a Quasi-probability Approach to No-Signalling in Time and New Measurement Protocols

Jonathan Halliwell, Imperial.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Entropy Accumulation

Omar Fawzi.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 23 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

The computational power of projective measurements

Stefan Weigert, University of York.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Universal Quantum Hamiltonians

Stephen Piddock, University of Bristol.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Structure of the irreducibly covariant quantum channels

Marek Mozrzymas.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Flexible constrained de Finetti reductions and parallel repetition of multi-player non-local games

Cécilia Lancien, University of Madrid.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Convex separation from convex optimization for large-scale problems

Steve Brierley, University of Cambridge.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Theory of the quantum internet

Koji Azuma, NTT Tokyo.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Speed of Environment Induced Decoherence using Quantum Functional Inequalities

Ivan Bardet, Lyon.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Recovery maps in quantum thermodynamics

Alvaro Martín Alhambra, UCL.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

From Circuit Designs for Multi-body Interactions in Quantum Annealers to Embedding Schemes for Satisfiability Problems

Stefan Zohren, Oxford.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Relaxations of Graph Isomorphism

David Roberson, UCL.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Information and Relativistic Causality: distinguishing quantum states instantaneously

Berry Groisman, Sidney Sussex College.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 October 2016, 12:15-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Beyond i.i.d. in quantum information theory

Nilanjana Datta, Statslab.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 October 2016, 11:30-12:15

Dirac Lecture

"Too beautiful to be false"

Professor Michael Green FRS (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 June 2016, 14:30-16:00

CQIF Seminar

Verification of Quantum Programs

Mingsheng Ying (UTS Sydney).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum steering inequalities

Adam Rutkowski, Gdansk.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Simulating Quantum Circuits with Sparse Output Distributions

Martin Schwarz, Freie Universität Berlin.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Application of majorization theory to quantum communication

Nicolas Cerf, ULB.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Unifying gate-synthesis and magic state distillation

Earl Campbell, University of Sheffield.

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Towards homomorphic encryption secured by the laws of physics

Joe Fitzsimons, Singapore University of Technology and Design.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Causal structure relations

Roger Colbeck, University of York.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The limits of Matrix Product States

Miguel Navascues, University of Vienna.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Heilbronn and QALGO quantum algorithms meeting 2016

Various.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Saturday 16 April 2016, 09:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Heilbronn and QALGO quantum algorithms meeting 2016

Various.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 April 2016, 09:00-17:30

CQIF Seminar

Heilbronn and QALGO quantum algorithms meeting 2016

Various.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 April 2016, 10:20-17:30

CQIF Seminar

Hidden variables, hidden states and hidden nonlocality: the in-equivalence of entanglement and nonlocality

Joseph Bowles, University of Geneva.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

A derivation of the third law of thermodynamics

Lluis Masanes, UCL.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Resource robustness and discrimination of physical processes

Marco Piani, University of Strathclyde.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Network information theoretic results for classical-quantum channels in the information spectrum setting

Naqueeb Warsi, University of Oxford.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Irreducible representations of partially transposed permutation operators with applications to quantum information problems

Michał Studziński, University of Cambridge.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Coherence-assisted single-shot cooling by quantum absorption refrigerators

Note the unusual time

Mark Mitchison (Imperial College).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

CQIF Seminar

A quantum generalization of the Hammersley-Clifford theorem

Fernando Brandão (Microsoft Research).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 December 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Some algebraic structures in computational quantum mechanics

Pranav Singh (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

Dynamical error bounds for continuum discretisation via Gauss quadrature rules - a Lieb-Robinson bound approach

Mischa Woods.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Coherence and measurement in quantum thermodynamics

Please note the unusual day, time and venue.

Janet Anders (University of Exeter).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Alice, Bob, and Eve in Quantumland

Please note the unusual day, time and venue.

Tal Mor (Technion).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Completeness results for graphical quantum process languages

Miriam Backens (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The efficiency of small quantum heat engines

Nelly Ng Huei Ying (Delft University of Technology).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Aharonov meets Spekkens: What do quantum paradoxes tell us about the nature of reality?

Matthew Leifer (Perimeter Institute).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

The complexity of antiferromagnetic 2-qubit interactions and 2D lattices

Stephen Piddock (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Open quantum random walks

Yan Pautrat (Orsay, France).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 September 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The Topology of Contextuality

Kohei Kishida (University of Oxford).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Quantum Thermodynamics

Terry Rudolph (Imperial College London).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

On computing with 'probabilities' modulo k

Note unusual time

Niel de Beaudrap (University of Oxford).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

More Randomness from the Same Qubits

Matty Hoban (University of Oxford).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Resource theories of knowledge and applications to thermodynamics

Lídia del Rio (University of Bristol).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

What is an Electron?

Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 May 2015, 16:00-17:15

CQIF Seminar

A Classical Analog to Entanglement Reversibility

University of Technology Sydney.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Hierarchies and nets for separable states

Aram Harrow (MIT).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

CQIF Seminar

Gapped and gapless phases of frustration-free spin-1/2 chains

David Gosset (Caltech).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 April 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Bulk-edge correspondence of one-dimensional quantum walks

Reinhard Werner (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum theory from simple physical principles for single systems

Howard Barnum (University of New Mexico).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The Rate of Convergence in the Quantum Central Limit Theorem and Applications

Marcus Cramer, Ulm University.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Contextuality and nonlocality: a unifying framework

Ana Belen Sainz (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Complete criterion for convex-Gaussian-state detection.

Anna Vershynina (RWTH Aachen).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Search with Bose-Einstein Condensates and Effective Nonlinearities

Tom Wong, University of Latvia.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Attempting to reverse the irreversible in quantum physics

(Note the unusual time!)

Mark Wilde (Louisiana State University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 January 2015, 11:00-12:00

CQIF Seminar

Quantum annealing on Ising spin glasses

Troels Frimodt Rønnow (NRC Cambridge).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Thermodynamics in extreme quantum regimes.

David Jennings (Imperial College London).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum pattern matching fast on average

Ashley Montanaro (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The Fawzi-Renner Inequality by State Redistribution

Ferndando Brandão (University College London).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

New perspectives on the Great Exhibition

Geoffrey Cantor (University College London).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

CQIF Seminar

Efficient quantum Gibbs samplers

Michael Kastoryano (Freie Universitaet Berlin).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Sparse Quantum Codes from Quantum Circuits

Aram Harrow (MIT).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

An optimal adiabatic quantum query algorithm

Mathieu Brandeho (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Purifications of multipartite states: limitations, constructive methods and some connections to other fields

Gemma De las Cuevas (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik ).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum channels with polytopic image and image additivity

Michael Wolf (Technische Universität München).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 August 2014, 14:15-15:15

Wolfson College Science Society

I spy with my MRI....

Dr Mick Mantle, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Seminar Room, Wolfson College.

Friday 13 June 2014, 18:15-19:15

CQIF Seminar

Negative Probabilities, Fine's Theorem and Quantum Histories

Please note the unusual venue and time

Jonathan J. Halliwell (Imperial College London).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

Local Unitary Symmetries of Hypergraph States

David W. Lyons, Lebanon Valley College.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Friday 30 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

CQIF Seminar

Phase-phenomena in probabilistic theories

Oscar Dahlsten (University of Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum digital signatures

Erika Andersson (Heriot Watt).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

General probabilistic theories on arbitrary causal structures

Raymond Lal (University of Oxford).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

CQIF Seminar

Strong converse theorems in quantum information theory

Ciara Morgan (Leibniz University of Hanover).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

Paul Dirac and the Development of Quantum Theory

Professor Peter Goddard, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and St John's College.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

CMS Colloquia

Relativistic Quantum Cryptography: controlling Information by fundamental physics

Adrian Kent, DAMTP.

NOTE ROOM CHANGE TO MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 28 April 2014, 17:00-18:00

CQIF Seminar

Topological foundations for classical encryption and quantum teleportation

Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Causal realism in quantum physics and the cosmological invariant set postulate

Tim Palmer (University of Oxford).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Spectral methods for quantum Markov chains

Oleg Szehr (Technische Universität München).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Limitations on Quantum Key Repeaters

Matthias Christandl.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

A histories perspective on characterising quantum correlations

Joe Henson (Imperial College, London).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 14:15-15:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Demotic mathematics and modernism's shipwrecked poetics of insurance

Alice Bamford (Faculty of English).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

CQIF Seminar

Computing with a full memory

Florian Speelman (CWI).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Computer-Based Maths: Stop Teaching Calculating, Start Learning Maths

Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram & computerbasedmath.org).

Center for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 17:45-18:45

CQIF Seminar

Exploiting relativity in quantum technologies and how a macroscopic clock can make you younger

Ivette Fuentes (University of Nottingham).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

The classical analogue of quantum mechanics

Maris Ozols (University of Cambridge).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Mixed state entanglement: bounds, computation and optimal ensembles

Peter Love (Haverford College).

Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 07 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 1: Operator Space theory: a natural framework for Bell inequalities

Mathematical Challenges in Quantum Information

Perez Garcia, D (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 September 2013, 11:30-12:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 2: Information-Theoretic Techniques in Many-Body Physics

Mathematical Challenges in Quantum Information

Brandao, F (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 September 2013, 10:00-11:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 2: Entanglement in quantum interactive proofs (tutorial)

Mathematical Challenges in Quantum Information

Vidick, T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Tuesday 03 September 2013, 09:00-10:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Lecture 1: Information-Theoretic Techniques in Many-Body Physics

Mathematical Challenges in Quantum Information

Brandao, F (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

Monday 02 September 2013, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

Energy diffusion from relativistic spontaneous localization.

Daniel Bedingham (Imperial College).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

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

Earl Campbell (Freie Universität Berlin).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Dirac Lecture

The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism and its scalar boson

Professor François Englert - Université libre de Bruxelles.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

CQIF Seminar

Stability of local quantum dissipative systems

Angelo Lucia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

CQIF Seminar

A sheaf-theoretic approach to the contextuality of cluster states

Raymond Lal (University of Oxford).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum control of continuous variables

Alessio Serafini (UCL).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

New de Finetti theorems and the quantum PCP conjecture

Aram Harrow (MIT).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

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

Fabio Benatti (University of Trieste).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Information techniques for detecting Topological Order

Jiannis Pachos (University of Leeds).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Limitations on the psi-epistemic view of quantum states

Owen Maroney (University of Oxford).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Some recent results on quantum nonlocality

Carlos Palazuelos (Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Madrid).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Shaking Entanglement

Nicolai Friis (University of Nottingham).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Lessons for Foundations of Quantum Mechanics from Quantum Gravity

Fay Dowker (Imperial College London).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Cavity optomechanics in new regimes and with new devices: Single-photon strong coupling and dissipative interaction

Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Basel).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Two-message quantum interactive proofs and the quantum separability problem

Mark M. Wilde (McGill University).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

CQIF Seminar

Continuous-variables graph state generation and reconstruction

Alessandro Ferraro (University of Sussex).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

The status of device independent quantum key distribution

Jon Barrett.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Freudenthal triple classification of 3-qubit entanglement

Leron Borsten (Imperial College London).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Control: reachability, recurrence & perhaps complexity

Daniel Burgarth (Aberystwyth University).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum information causality

Damian Pitalua-Garcia (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Electronic coherence and recoherence in pigment protein complexes: The fundamental role of non-equilibrium vibrational structures

Alex Chin (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Processing quantum information with relativistic motion of atoms

Eduardo Martin-Martinez (University of Waterloo).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Estimating multipartite entanglement with few local measurements

Marcus Huber (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Finite blocklength converse bounds for quantum channels

Will Matthews (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Topics in Quantum Entropy and Entanglement

Spectral Theory of Relativistic Operators

Lieb, E (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Limits on Noise in Linear Amplifiers

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

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Different permutations are almost orthogonal

Aram Harrow (University of Washington).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Preparing topological states on a quantum computer

Toby Cubitt (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Improving Quantum Query Complexity of Boolean Matrix Multiplication Using Graph Collision

Note change of time and room

Robin Kothari (IQC).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

A remarkable representation of the Clifford group

Please note change of room.

Steve Brierley (University of Bristol).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Philosophical Foundations of Aharonov-Bohm-"type" Phenomena

Please note change of room.

Nicholas Teh.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum States: Are they the real thing?

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

Terry Rudolph (Imperial College London).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Universal Blind Quantum Computation with Weak Coherent Pulses

Vedran Dunjko (Heriot-Watt University).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Dirac Lecture

Is the end of the Standard Model nigh ?

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

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

CQIF Seminar

Voyage to Alpha Centauri: degradation, creation and detection of cavity mode entanglement due to motion.

David Bruschi (University of Nottingham).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Free randomness can be amplified

Renato Renner (ETH Zurich).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Robust Self testing and Non-locality

Tzyh Haur Yang (National University of Singapore).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Paradoxes of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Pilot-wave theory and quantum fields

Ward Struyve (KU Leuven).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum correlations versus entanglement in composite systems

Gerardo Adesso (University of Nottingham).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Retrocausality - what would it take?

Huw Price (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

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

David Jennings (Imperial College London).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Spacetime Quantum Mechanics: 20 Years On

James Yearsley (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

The Link between Uncertainty Relations and Non-Locality

Marco Tomamichel (ETH Zurich).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

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

Ed Blakey (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Strongly driven coherent quantum systems

Dieter Jaksch (University of Oxford).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

The non-additivity saga continues: entanglement of purification

Andreas Winter (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Reading of Digital Memories

Stefano Pirandola (University of York).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Renyi relative entropies in quantum information theory

Milan Mosonyi (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

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

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

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Perspectives on Information Causality

Sabri Al-Safi (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Inverting the central limit theorem

Miguel Navascues (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

The semantics and unitarity of measurement-based computations

Neil de Beaudrap (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

A compact entanglement distillery

Animesh Datta (University of Oxford).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Theory, Relativity and Information

Adrian Kent (CQIF).

F0.11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences; and via web on Google+.

Tuesday 23 August 2011, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

Almost Quantum Theory

Michael Westmoreland (Denison University).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

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

Ivette Fuentes (University of Nottingham).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

A system equilibrates if diagonalizing its hamiltonian is difficult

Lluis Masanes (ICFO).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

A one-shot family tree of quantum protocols

Nilanjana Datta (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Measurement, Correlation, and Contextuality in Quantum Mechanics

Masanao Ozawa.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Dirac Lecture

The Nature of True Mathematical Physics

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

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

CQIF Seminar

Symmetry vs Controllability: Spin Chains and Beyond

Xiaoting Wang.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

On Computational Power of Classical and Quantum Branching Programs

Farid Ablayev (University of Kazan).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Physical interpretation of the Wigner rotations and its implications to relativistic quantum information

Pablo Saldanha (University of Oxford).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum matchgate computations and linear threshold gates

Maarten van den Nest.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 31 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Small thermal machines

Paul Skrzypczyk (CQIF).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

On Telescopes and Cuckoo Clocks

Koenraad Audenaert (Royal Holloway, University of London).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Conditional States, Bayes' Rule, and State Compatibility

Matthew Leifer (UCL).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Position-Based Quantum Cryptography: Impossibility and Constructions

Christian Schaffner (CWI).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Ancilla-driven quantum computation and Landauer's erasure principle

Janet Anders (UCL).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

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

Andreas Winter (University of Bristol).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

CHSH Bell Inequalities made simple(r): Linear functions, loopholes, and how to post-select data without causing one.

Dan Browne (UCL).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Probabilistic representation of quantum correlation

Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

CQIF Seminar

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

Karol Zyczkowski (Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

An informational derivation of Quantum Theory

Giulio Chiribella (Perimeter Institute).

MR13, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

NP-hardness of decoding quantum error correction codes

Min-Hsiu Hsieh (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Information causality

Marcin Pawlowski (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Causality, Bell's Theorem and Ontic Definiteness

Joe Henson (Perimeter Institute).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Beyond the quantum

Antony Valentini (Imperial College).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Verification of Quantum Mechanics

Dr Elham Kashefi.

The Plant Science Lecture Theatre on Downing Site (www.scisoc.com for directions).

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 20:00-21:15

CQIF Seminar

The smallest possible heat engines and refrigerators

Sandu Popescu (University of Bristol).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

An area law for the entropy of low-energy states

Lluis Masanes (ICFO).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Low-dimensional quite noisy bound entanglement with cryptographic key

Lukasz Pankowski (University of Gdansk).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Separations between quantum and classical one-way communication complexity

Ashley Montanaro (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Determining a class of symmetric multiqubit pure states from its parts

Sudha Shenoy (Kuvempu University).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Comparison of statistical models on general quantum systems: a "Quantum Blackwell Theorem"

Francesco Buscemi.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 23 September 2010, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Entanglement can increase asymptotic rates of zero-error classical communication over classical channels

William Matthews (IQC, Waterloo).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

The Princess and the EPR pair

Aram Harrow (University of Bristol).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Specker's Parable of the Over-protective Seer: Implications for Contextuality, Nonlocality and Complementarity

Rob Spekkens (Perimeter Institute).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Recent results on the classical simulation of quantum circuits

Richard Jozsa (CQC).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

AMOP list

Collective qubits and hybrid schemes for quantum computing

Klaus Moelmer (University of Aarhus, Denmark).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum theory from four requirements

Lluis Masanes (ICFO).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Dirac Lecture

Phase Transitions: Scaling, Universality and Renormalization

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

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

CQIF Seminar

If quantum mechanics were more non-local it would violate the uncertainty principle

Jonathan Oppenheim (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

An efficient test for product states

Ashley Montanaro.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

The compositional structure of multipartite quantum entanglement

Bob Coecke (Oxford).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Can we derive quantum formalism from first principles?

Out of term informal talk

Shmuel Marcovitch (University of Tel Aviv).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Probabilistic theories with purification

Giulio Chiribella (Perimeter Institute).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Memories

Dr Alastair Kay (University of Cambridge).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

How to find half the local unitary invariants of pure qubit states

Graeme Mitchison.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Entropy in general physical theories

Tony Short (CQC).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Entanglement-assisted communication of classical and quantum information

Min-Hsiu Hsieh.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Non-Locality Beyond Quantum Theory

Damian Pitalua-Garcia.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Indeterminism and Decoherence in Standard Quantum Theory

Christian Schilling, ETH Zurich.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

On minimum reversible entanglement generating sets

Fernando Brandao, Imperial College London.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Measurement process in superconducting flux qubit

Sergei Strelchuk (Cambridge CQC).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Information and Computer Networks

Juan Carlos Garcia Escartin (Cambridge CQC ).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Bell-based Quantum Key Distribution

Lluis Masanes, University of Barcelona.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Highly Entangled States With Almost No Secrecy

Matthias Christandl, LMU Munich.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Towards a theory of entanglement for finite resources: single-shot entanglement cost

Francesco Buscemi (Cambridge CQC).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Cambridge Summer Workshop on Quantum Information Theory

multiple speakers.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 06 July 2009, 09:30-13:30

CQIF Seminar

Relative entropies and entanglement monotones

Nilanjana Datta (Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Can dynamical equations be deduced from measurement data?

Toby Cubitt (Bristol).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Indirect Hamiltonian Estimation and Restricted Control

Daniel Burgarth (Imperial College London).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Dirac Lecture

From Plato to Quarks and Back

Professor Alexander Polyakov (Princeton).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

CQIF Seminar

A photonic cluster state machine gun

Terry Rudolph (Imperial College London).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Relative Entropy of Entanglement and Restricted Measurements

Marco Piani (IQC, Waterloo).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

The Bohrification of quantum logic

This is not an official CQC Seminar

Klaas Landsman (Nijmegen).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

In support of ontic view of quantum states

Berry Groisman (CQC Cambridge).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

On the contractivity of Hilbert-Schmidt distance under open quantum dynamics

Xiaoting Wang (CQC Cambridge).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

CQIF Seminar

Quantum privacy: introducing mutual independence

Jonathan Oppenheim.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Monogamy, entanglement and deep hidden variables

Michael Seevinck (Utrecht).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Realistic quantum-enhanced phase estimation

Konrad Banaszek.

MR10, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Ancilla-Driven Quantum Computation and Twisted Graph States

Daniel Oi (Strathclyde).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum graphity: a model of emergent locality in quantum gravity

Fotini Markopoulou (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Secure decoupling of quantum systems: how to shred quantum information

Francesco Buscemi (CQC Cambridge).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Simulating Time Travel

The talk will be informal.

Charlie Bennett (IBM).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Post-selection technique for quantum channels with applications to quantum cryptography

Matthias Christandl (LMU Munich).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 November 2008, 15:00-16:00

CQIF Seminar

CQC seminar: Sandu Popescu

Sandu Popescu.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

CQC seminar: Sandu Popescu

Sandu Popescu.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

Quantum Information and Ultracold Atomic Gases

Note the room (MR4)

Maciej Lewenstein, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Barcelona.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CQIF Seminar

CQC Seminar: Joonwoo Bae

Joonwoo Bae.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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