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Winter College on Quantum and Classical Aspects of Information Optics | (smr 1738)
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  • Monday, 30 January 2006
    • 08:30 - 09:30 REGISTRATION
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Opening
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Opening 30'
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Classical and Quantum Imaging"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Classical and Quantum Imaging" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Knight (Imperial College London, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Foundations and Background"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "Foundations and Background" 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Friberg (Royal Institute of Optics, Stockholm, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 "Polarization of EM Fields"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 "Polarization of EM Fields" 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Friberg (Royal Institute of Optics, Stockholm, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 "Linear Signal Dependence"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 "Linear Signal Dependence" 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Bastiaans (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 15'
    • 16:45 - 17:45 Introduction to the ICTP Computer System and Organization of LAMP Seminars
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:45 Introduction to the ICTP Computer System and Organization of LAMP Seminars 1h0'
  • Tuesday, 31 January 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 "Bilinear Signal Dependence"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 "Bilinear Signal Dependence" 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Bastiaans (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Electromagnetic Coherence"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Electromagnetic Coherence" 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Friberg (Royal Institute of Optics, Stockholm, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Relatives of the Wigner Distribution"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "Relatives of the Wigner Distribution" 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Bastiaans (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 "From Geometric Optics to Wave Optics"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 "From Geometric Optics to Wave Optics" 1h0'
        Speaker: T. Alieva (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 "Optical Integral Transforms: Basic Properties and Optical Schemes"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 "Optical Integral Transforms: Basic Properties and Optical Schemes" 1h0'
        Speaker: T. Alieva (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 1 February 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 "The Origin of Light's Angular Momentum"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 "The Origin of Light's Angular Momentum" 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Padgett (University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Applications for Information Processing"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Applications for Information Processing" 1h0'
        Speaker: T. Alieva (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum, their Similarities and Differences"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum, their Similarities and Differences" 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Padgett (University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 "Optical Vortices, the Generic State of Light"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 "Optical Vortices, the Generic State of Light" 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Padgett (University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 ICO-ICSU Celebration
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 ICO-ICSU Celebration 1h0'
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:00 - 18:00 ICO/ICTP Prize Award and Seminar
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
    • 18:00 - 21:00 ICO Reception
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 18:00 ICO Reception 3h0'
  • Thursday, 2 February 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 "Ince-Gaussian Modes of the Paraxial Wave Equation and Laser Resonators"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 "Ince-Gaussian Modes of the Paraxial Wave Equation and Laser Resonators" 1h0'
        Speaker: J.C. Gutierrez-Vega (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Propagation Properties of Nondiffracting Beams"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Propagation Properties of Nondiffracting Beams" 1h0'
        Speaker: J.C. Gutierrez-Vega (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Scalar and Vector Helmholtz-Gauss Beams"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "Scalar and Vector Helmholtz-Gauss Beams" 1h0'
        Speaker: J.C. Gutierrez-Vega (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h0'
    • 13:30 - 14:30 LAM Network Meeting
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 13:30 LAM Network Meeting 1h0'
    • 14:30 - 16:30 LAMP Seminars
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 LAMP Seminars 2h0'
  • Friday, 3 February 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 "The Physical Principles"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 "The Physical Principles" 1h0'
        Speaker: M.L. Calvo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Optical Media and Holographic Techniques"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Optical Media and Holographic Techniques" 1h0'
        Speaker: M.L. Calvo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Fundamentals and Background"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "Fundamentals and Background" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Cheben (National Research Council of Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 "Modern Photonics. Telecom and Beyond"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 "Modern Photonics. Telecom and Beyond" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Cheben (National Research Council of Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 "Advanced Devices and Future Trends"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 "Advanced Devices and Future Trends" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Cheben (National Research Council of Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Monday, 6 February 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 "Introduction to Quantum Optics, Coherent and Squeezed States"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 "Introduction to Quantum Optics, Coherent and Squeezed States" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Tombesi (University of Camerino, Italy)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Density Operator and Master Equation"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Density Operator and Master Equation" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Tombesi (University of Camerino, Italy)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Optimal Quantum-State Estimations"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "Optimal Quantum-State Estimations" 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Buzek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 "Optimal Manipulations with Quantum Information"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 "Optimal Manipulations with Quantum Information" 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Buzek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 "Quantum Repeaters"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 "Quantum Repeaters" 1h0'
        Speaker: I. Cirac (Max-Planck-Institut für Quanten Optik, Garching, Germany)
    • 16:30 - 18:00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
  • Tuesday, 7 February 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 "Quantum Computing"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 "Quantum Computing" 1h0'
        Speaker: I. Cirac (Max-Planck-Institut für Quanten Optik, Garching, Germany)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Realization of a Decoherence-Free Mesoscopic Quantum Superposition"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Realization of a Decoherence-Free Mesoscopic Quantum Superposition" 1h0'
        Speaker: F. De Martini (Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Introduction to Photonic Quantum Information"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "Introduction to Photonic Quantum Information" 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Rarity (Bristol University, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 CEI (Central European Initiative) Round Table
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 CEI (Central European Initiative) Round Table 30'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 "Quantum Cryptography, Free Space Experiments"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 "Quantum Cryptography, Free Space Experiments" 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Rarity (Bristol University, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 "Dynamics of Open Systems from a Perspective of Quantum Information"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 "Dynamics of Open Systems from a Perspective of Quantum Information" 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Buzek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 8 February 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 "Introduction to Multi-Photon Quantum Logic"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 "Introduction to Multi-Photon Quantum Logic" 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Rarity (Bristol University, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Optical Communication and Its Quantum Limits"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Optical Communication and Its Quantum Limits" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Kumar (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Communication Channels"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "Communication Channels" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Kumar (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 16:30 LAMP Seminars
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 LAMP Seminars 2h0'
  • Thursday, 9 February 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 "Bits and Qubits: an Introduction to Quantum Information 1"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 "Bits and Qubits: an Introduction to Quantum Information 1" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Knight (Imperial College London, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Fiber-Optic Quantum Communication and Applications"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Fiber-Optic Quantum Communication and Applications" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Kumar (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "The Wigner Representation"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "The Wigner Representation" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Tombesi (University of Camerino, Italy)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 LAMP Seminars
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 LAMP Seminars 1h0'
    • 15:30 - 18:30 Visit to Elettra Laboratories
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Visit to Elettra Laboratories 3h0'
  • Friday, 10 February 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 "Recent Results on Digital Processing of Information and Digital Holography"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 "Recent Results on Digital Processing of Information and Digital Holography" 1h0'
        Speaker: L. Yaroslavsky (University of Tel-Aviv, Israel)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 "Bits and Qubits: an Introduction to Quantum Information 2"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 "Bits and Qubits: an Introduction to Quantum Information 2" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Knight (Imperial College London, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Quantum Optical Realizations of Qubits"
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 "Quantum Optical Realizations of Qubits" 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Knight (Imperial College London, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 16:30 LAMP Seminars
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 LAMP Seminars 2h0'
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