The 31st Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics: Frontiers of Quantum Information Science

Date: 
Mon, 30/12/2013 to Thu, 09/01/2014
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Frontiers of Quantum Information Science

All lectures will take place at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies,
at the Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram Campus

General Director: David Gross, University of California at Santa Barbara

Director: John Preskill, Caltech

Co-directors: 
Michael Ben-Or, The Hebrew University
Patrick Hayden, Stanford University

 

Lecture Recordings >

 

Advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from all over the world are invited to participate in this Winter School, which will explore the current frontiers of quantum information science.

Topics to be addressed include:
Quantum complexity and algorithms, foundations of quantum theory, physical implementations of quantum computing, quantum error correction, topological quantum computing, quantum entanglement in manybody systems and in quantum field theory, quantum information and black holes.

 

Speakers:

Scott Aaronson, MIT
David DiVincenzo, RWTH Aachen University
Daniel Harlow, Princeton University
Michal Horodecki, Gdansk University
Stephen Jordan, NIST
Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute
Renato Renner, ETH Zurich
Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute
Barbara Terhal, RWTH Aachen University
Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna

 

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