Wednesday, May 4, 2011

[DMANET] TQC 2011: Call for Participation (Madrid, Spain, May 24-26, 2011)

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The 6th Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation,
Communication, and Cryptography
---- TQC 2011 ----

Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Prof. Botella Lecture Room, Faculty of Medicine
Ciudad Universitaria - Madrid, Spain
24 - 26 May 2011
http://gcc.ls.fi.upm.es/tqc2011/
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<> Invited Speakers:

* Hector Bombin (Perimeter Institute)
* Hans Briegel (Innsbruck)
* Nicolas Gisin (Geneva)
* Mio Murao (Tokyo)
* Tobias Osborne (Hannover)
* Umesh Vazirani (Berkeley)

<> Accepted Talks:

* Approximating the Turaev-Viro invariant of mapping tori is
complete for one clean qubit (Gorjan Alagic and Stephen Jordan)
* Telescopic relative entropy (Koenraad Audenaert)
* Large violation of Bell inequalities using both particle and wave
measurements (Daniel Cavalcanti, Nicolas Brunner, Paul
Skrzypczyk, Alejo Salles and Valerio Scarani)
* The locking-decoding frontier for generic dynamics (Frederic
Dupuis, Jan Florjanczyk, Patrick Hayden and Debbie Leung)
* Unconditionally-secure and reusable public-key authentication
(Lawrence Ioannou and Michele Mosca)
* Long distance quantum key distribution with continuous variables
(Anthony Leverrier and Philippe Grangier)
* Local unitary group stabilizers and entanglement for
multiqubit symmetric states (David Lyons, Scott Walck and Curt
Cenci)
* Quantum discord in quantum information theory - from strong sub-
additivity to the Mother protocol (Vaibhav Madhok and Animesh
Datta)
* A generalization of Noether's theorem and the information-
theoretic approach to the study of symmetric dynamics
(Iman Marvian and Robert Spekkens)
* Secure device-independent quantum key distribution with causally
independent measurement devices (Lluis Masanes, Stefano
Pironio and Antonio Acin)
* Self-testing graph states (Matthew Mckague)
* Multi-query quantum sums (David Meyer and James Pommersheim)
* Which graph states are useful for quantum information processing?
(Mehdi Mhalla, Mio Murao, Simon Perdrix, Masato Someya and Peter
S. Turner)
* Span-program-based quantum algorithm for evaluating unbalanced
formulas (Ben Reichardt)
* Mistrustful quantum cryptography in a device-independent setting
(Jonathan Silman, Andre Chailloux, Nati Aharon, Iordanis
Kerenidis, Stefano Pironio and Serge Massar)
* Towards a tight finite key analysis for BB84 (Marco Tomamichel,
Charles Ci Wen Lim, Renato Renner and Nicolas Gisin)
* Bitwise quantum min-entropy sampling and new lower bounds for
random access codes (Juerg Wullschleger)

<> Accepted Posters:

http://gcc.ls.fi.upm.es/tqc2011/posters.php

<> Program Committee:

Mohammad Amin (D-Wave)
Dave Bacon (Washington; Co-chair)
Dagmar Bruss (Duesseldorf)
Andrew Childs (IQC)
Richard Cleve (IQC)
Steve Flammia (Caltech)
Markus Grassl (CQT Singapore)
Peter Hoyer (Calgary)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto)
Elham Kashefi (Edinburgh)
Debbie Leung (IQC)
Hoi-Kwong Lo (Toronto)
Chiara Macchiavello (Pavia)
Vicente Martin-Ayuso (UPM)
Miguel Martin-Delgado (UCM)
Dmitri Maslov (IQC/NSF)
Michele Mosca (IQC)
Kae Nemoto (NII Tokyo)
Martin Roetteler (NEC Princeton; Chair)
Miklos Santha (Paris/CQT Singapore)
Pranab Sen (Tata Institute)
Simone Severini (London)
Jean-Pierre Tillich (INRIA)
Andreas Winter (Bristol/CQT Singapore)

<> Contact:

quitemad.gestion@gmail.com

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Inés Escribano
QUITEMAD Network Manager
Dpto. Física Teórica I
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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