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  • Monday, 14 June 2010
    • 08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Administrative formalities
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 Registration and Administrative formalities 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 09:40 Opening
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Opening 10'
    • 09:40 - 10:30 Quantum money
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:40 Quantum money 50'
        Speaker: P. Shor
        Material: abstract
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:50 Anderson localization casts clouds over adiabatic quantum optimization
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Anderson localization casts clouds over adiabatic quantum optimization 50'
        Speaker: B. Altshuler
        Material: abstract
    • 12:00 - 12:50 Quantum Adiabatic Algorithms, Small Gaps and Path Change
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Quantum Adiabatic Algorithms, Small Gaps and Path Change 50'
        Speaker: E. Farhi
    • 12:50 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Lunch 1h40'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 First order phase transition in the quantum adiabatic algorithm
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 First order phase transition in the quantum adiabatic algorithm 50'
        Speaker: P. Young
        Material: abstract
    • 15:30 - 17:00 Discussion: Adiabatic algorithm, many-body localization and quantum glassiness
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Discussion: Adiabatic algorithm, many-body localization and quantum glassiness 1h30'
  • Tuesday, 15 June 2010
    • 09:30 - 10:20 A fast renormalization group decoding algorithm for topological quantum codes
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 A fast renormalization group decoding algorithm for topological quantum codes 50'
        Speaker: D. Poulin
        Material: abstract
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:50 Competition between quantum tunnelling and classical random field effects in an experiments on adiabatic quantum optimization
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Competition between quantum tunnelling and classical random field effects in an experiments on adiabatic quantum optimization 50'
        Speaker: G. Aeppli
        Material: abstract
    • 12:00 - 12:50 QMA-complete problems for stoquastic Hamiltonians and Markov matrices
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 QMA-complete problems for stoquastic Hamiltonians and Markov matrices 50'
        Speaker: S. Jordan
        Material: abstract
    • 12:50 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Lunch 1h40'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 Some classical results for hard optimization problems relevant for quantum information research
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Some classical results for hard optimization problems relevant for quantum information research 50'
        Speaker: L. Zdeborova
        Material: abstract
    • 15:30 - 16:20 Quantum spin models on sparse random graphs
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Quantum spin models on sparse random graphs 50'
        Speaker: G. Semerjian
        Material: abstract
  • Wednesday, 16 June 2010
    • 09:30 - 10:20 The statistical mechanics of random quantum satisfiability
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 The statistical mechanics of random quantum satisfiability 50'
        Speaker: R. Moessner
        Material: abstract
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:50 Topological quantum order: stability under local perturbations
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Topological quantum order: stability under local perturbations 50'
        Speaker: S. Bravyi
        Material: abstract
    • 12:00 - 12:50 Optimization Under Uncertainty
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Optimization Under Uncertainty 50'
        Speaker: R. Zecchina
        Material: abstract
    • 12:50 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Lunch 1h40'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 A quantum Lovász Local Lemma
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 A quantum Lovász Local Lemma 50'
        Speaker: J. Kempe
        Material: abstract
    • 20:00 - 20:00 Conference dinner
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 20:00 Conference dinner
  • Thursday, 17 June 2010
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Quantum first-order transitions: The problems that quantum annealing cannot solve
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Quantum first-order transitions: The problems that quantum annealing cannot solve 50'
        Speaker: F. Krzakala
        Material: abstract
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:50 Level crossings, first order transitions and the role of entropy
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Level crossings, first order transitions and the role of entropy 50'
        Speaker: F. Zamponi
        Material: abstract
    • 12:00 - 12:50 Dissipative processes for quantum information processing
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Dissipative processes for quantum information processing 50'
        Speaker: F. Verstraete
        Material: abstract
    • 12:50 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Lunch 1h40'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 The commuting Hamiltonian problem and tight conditions for topological order
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 The commuting Hamiltonian problem and tight conditions for topological order 50'
        Speaker: D. Aharonov
    • 15:30 - 17:00 Discussion: QMA, typical and worst case
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Discussion: QMA, typical and worst case 1h30'
  • Friday, 18 June 2010
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Quantum Noise as an Entanglement Meter
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Quantum Noise as an Entanglement Meter 50'
        Speaker: L. Levitov
    • 10:30 - 11:20 Computational Complexity of Translationally-Invariant Systems
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 Computational Complexity of Translationally-Invariant Systems 50'
        Speaker: D. Gottesman
        Material: abstract
    • 11:30 - 11:30 Closing
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Closing