Introduction to Quantum Information Processing
QIC 710, CS 768, CO 681, PHYS 767, AMATH 871, PMATH 871 (Fall 2021)

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Draft schedule of final presentations (tentative)

December 7 (Tuesday) 10:00am-10:55am (in AHS 1689)
10:00-10:25
Adam Teixido-Bonfill ..Black Holes as Quantum Circuits I
10:30-10:55 T. Rick Perche .............Black Holes as Quantum Circuits II

December 13 (Monday) 10:00am-11:55am (in AHS 1689)
10:00-10:25 Jonathan Gold ............Universal blind computation
10:30-10:55 Maeve Wetland ...........Using quantum algorithms to brake & remake classical cryptography
11:00-11:25 Raphael Husistein ......A quantum algorithm for finding the intersection of sets
11:30-11:55
Camryn Steckel ..........Hardness of the quantum separability problem

December 14 (Tuesday) 1:30pm-2:55pm (in AHS 1689)
01:30-01:55 Owen Chambers .........The HHL algorithm for sparse linear systems
02:00-02:25
Christina Rodriguez ...Quantum walks
02:30-02:55
Stéphane Vinet ............Device-independent quantum key distribution

December 15 (Wednesday) 1:30pm-3:25pm (in AHS 1689)
01:30-01:55 Spencer Wilson ..........Quantum attack on symmetric-key crypto using Simon's algorithm
02:00-02:25 Omar Hussein .............How are thermodynamics and information connected?
02:30-02:55
Lucas Hak ...................Alternative measurement-based quantum computation
03:00-03:25
Jack deGooyer ...........An introduction to quantum game theory

December 16 (Thursday) 10:00am-11:55am (in AHS 1689)

10:00-10:25
Benjamin MacLennan.Measurement-based quantum computing
10:30-10:55
Matthew Piatt ..............Higher dimensional quantum computing
11:00-11:25
Evan White .................Quantum repeaters
11:30-11:55 Vahid Asadi ................Quantum zero-knowledge proof systems
11:00-11:25 Victor Marton ..............Quantum machine learning via the HHL algorithm

December 16 (Thursday) 1:30pm-2:55pm
(on-line session, connect via Zoom)
01:30-01:55 Jennifer Zhu ...............Quantum interactive proof systems and their perfect completeness
02:00-02:25
Victor Marton ...............Quantum machine learning via the HHL algorithm
02:30-02:55
Patrick Hompe ...........Quantum random walks
03:00-03:25

December 17 (Friday) 10:00am-11:55am (in AHS 1689)
10:00-10:25 Stephanie Maaz .........PSPACE has 2-round interactive proof systems
10:30-10:55
Jae Jong Oh ..............Quantum computing with qudits
11:00-11:25
Lemieux Wang ...........Black hole information paradox and firewall
11:30-11:55
Zach Merino ...............Aspects of fault tolerant surface codes for application with silicon

December 17 (Friday) 1:30pm-3:55pm
(on-line session, connect via Zoom)
01:30-01:55 Marian Dietz ...............Privacy-preserving quantum computation-as-a-service
02:00-02:25
Owen Zila ...................The quantum Turing machine
02:30-02:55
Roeland Wiersema ....Efficient quantum circuit simulation with stabilizer circuits
03:00-03:25
Jamal Busnaina .........Quantum algorithms for solving linear systems and applications

December 20 (Monday) 9:00am-12:25pm (in AHS 1689)
09:00-09:25 Jingwen Zhu ...............Quantum speedup of Markov chain Monte Carlo method
09:30-09:55
Olivia Woodman .........Linear optical quantum computing
10:00-10:25
Justin Su .....................Blind quantum computing
10:30-10:55 break
11:00-11:25
Nicolas Olsen .............Algorithmic cooling in quantum information
11:30-11:55
Parth Padia .................Quantum machine learning
12:00-12:25

December 20 (Monday) 1:30pm-4:55pm (in AHS 1689)

01:30-01:55
Mohammad Hossein Ebtehaj.......Quantum lower bounds by polynomials
02:00-02:25
Abhibhav Garg ............Quantum algorithms for finding the structure of solvable groups
02:30-02:55 Satchel Armena ..........Speedup from quantum models for classification problems
03:00-03:25 break
03:30-03:55
Yueheng Zhang ...........Discrete quantum on a line and on the hypercube
04:00-04:25
Namanish Singh ..........Quantum machine learning
04:30-04:55

December 21 (Tuesday) 9:00am-12:25pm (in AHS 1689)

09:00-09:25
Arsalan Motamedi .......Complexity of local Hamiltonians (part 1)
09:30-09:55
Alev Orfi .......................Complexity of local Hamiltonians (part 2)
10:00-10:25
Abdolreza Pasharavesh..Quantum oracle interrogation
10:30-10:55 break
11:00-11:25
Manar Naeem ..............TBA
11:30-11:55
Xingyu Zhou ................PSPACE has 2-round quantum interactive proof systems
12:00-12:25


December 21 (Tuesday) 1:30pm-4:55pm
(on-line session, connect via Zoom)
01:30-01:55 José Polo-Gómez ........Quantum state distinguishing & 2nd law of thermodynamics
02:00-02:25
Collin Epstein ..............Device independent QKD
02:30-02:55
Aroosa Ijaz ...................Barren plateaus & training variational quantum circuits
03:00-03:25 break
03:30-03:55
Nicki Caswell ...............Black holes and quantum information
04:00-04:25
Xiaoxuan Fan ...............Quantum walks and quantum walk search
04:30-04:55

December 22 (Wednesday) 9:00am-12:25pm (in AHS 1689)

09:00-09:25
09:30-09:55
Luke Neal ......................Applications of quantum approximate optimization algorithm
10:00-10:35
Alex Kirillova ................Device independent QKD
10:30-02:25 break
11:00-02:55
Rahul Menon .................Measurement-based quantum computing
11:30-11:55
Sarah Ming Li ................Introduction to stabilizer codes
12:00-12:25

December 22 (Wednesday) 8:30am-8:55am (on-line session, connect via Zoom)
08:30-08:55
Sarah Ming Li ................Introduction to stabilizer codes

(to be completed ...)