Monday, May 2, 2011

TQC 2011 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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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:

     Mohammed 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)
     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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