Introduction to Quantum Information Processing
QIC 710, CS 768, CO 681, PHYS 767, AMATH 871, PMATH 871 (Fall 2022)

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Schedule of final presentations (as of Dec. 17, 9:00am)

December 5 (Monday) 9:30am-11:25am in QNC 0101
09:30-09:55
Ravi Mudaliar ................. Quantum algorithms for the order of solvable groups
10:00-10:25 Mark Dittmer .................. Quantum proof of group nonmembership
10:30-10:55 Break
11:00-11:25 Matthew Duschenes ...... Efficient sampling complexity for quantum state tomography

December 5 (Monday) 12:30pm-1:55pm in QNC 0101 (** note unusual early start time)
12:30-12:55
Maria Preciado ............... Quantum computation with linear optics
01:00-01:25 Megan Schuyler Moss ... Approximate but efficient quantum state tomography
01:30-01:55 Amit Anand ..................... Anticoherence – measures of entanglement in symmetric subspaces

December 6 (Tuesday) 9:30am-11:55am in QNC 0101
09:30-09:55
Wenxue Zhang ............... Quantum walk algorithm for the triangle finding problem (part 1)
10:00-10:25 Zhiying Yu ...................... Quantum walk algorithm for the triangle finding problem (part 2)
10:30-10:55 Break
11:00-11:25 Sanchit Srivastava ......... Multipartite device independent protocols
11:30-11:55
Leanna Gittins ................ Quantum pseudo randomness and its cryptographic applications

December 6 (Tuesday) 1:00pm-3:25pm in QNC 0101
01:00-01:25
Zhengyu (Brian) Li ......... Quantum SAT solving and applications
01:30-01:55 Artem Klashtorny ........... Quantum copy-protection
02:00-02:25 Break
02:30-02:55 Andrew Jreissaty ........... Mixed state entanglement and quantum error correction
03:00-03:25 Kelly Wurtz ...................... Black holes as mirrors

December 9 (Friday) 9:30am-11:55am in QNC 0101
09:30-09:55
Jeffrey Cheng ............................ Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations
10:00-10:25 Colin Hong ................................. Making practical advances in quantum machine learning
10:30-10:55 Break
11:00-11:25 Bruno de Souza Leao Torres ... Quantum information recovery from black holes
11:30-11:55 Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi ......... Quantum key distribution

December 9 (Friday) 1:00pm-2:25pm in QNC 0101
01:00-01:25
Pravek Sharma ...... Provably secure key exchange
01:30-01:55 Sonell Malik ........... Quantum walks
02:00-02:25 Manoj R. Naick ....... QML for application development (HHL and VQC algorithms)

December 12 (Monday) 9:30am-11:55am in QNC 0101
09:30-09:55
Lewis Glabush ....... Entanglement-based quantum key distribution
10:00-10:25 Fiona Thompson .... Theory of topological qubits
10:30-10:55 Break
11:00-11:25 Tristan Lismer ....... Theory and applications of one-way quantum computation
11:30-11:55 Zhiqian Ding .......... Quantum singular value transformation

December 12 (Monday) 1:00pm-3:25pm in QNC 0101
01:00-01:25
Chi Zhang ................ Predicting properties of quantum systems from few measurements
01:30-01:55 Jeanne Laflamme ... Merkle puzzles "secure" against quantum computers
02:00-02:25 Break
02:30-02:55 Jeremy Chizewer .... Capabilities and limitations of blind quantum computation
03:00-03:25 Zach St. Pierre ........ Universal quantum computation gate set

December 13 (Tuesday) 9:30am-11:55am in QNC 0101
09:30-09:55
Noah Gorgichuk ............................... Bell inequalities and the separability criterion
10:00-10:25 Adrián López .................................... Quantum proofs for classical theorems
10:30-10:55 Break
11:00-11:25 Caroline de Lima Vargas Simoes ... Magic states in universal quantum computing
11:30-11:55
Jorrit van Assen ............................... Security proofs in quantum cryptography

December 14 (Wednesday) 1:00pm-3:25pm in QNC 0101
01:00-01:25
Michael Gu ............... Measurement based quantum computation
01:30-01:55 Jiayue Yang ............. Quantum information and information escaping from black holes
02:00-02:25 Break
02:30-02:55 Guang Peng ............. GKP code — encoding a qubit in an oscillator
03:00-03:25 Scott Johnstun ........ Realistic quantum key distribution with decoy-state protocols

December 15 (Thursday) 1:00pm-3:25pm in QNC 0101 (was held on-line, due to weather)
01:00-01:25
Sathursan Kokilathasan ... Quantum computation with linear optics (part 1)
01:30-01:55 Brady Cunard .................... Quantum computation with linear optics (part 2)
02:00-02:25 Break
02:30-02:55 Andrija Paurevic ................ Differential equation solvers using quantum algorithms
03:00-03:25 Dhruv Gopalakrishnan ...... Sample-and-query for the win

December 16 (Friday) 9:30am-11:55am in QNC 0101
09:30-09:55
Guilherme Macieira de Araujo ... The HHL algorithm
10:00-10:25 Yawen Peng ....................... Quantum walk based search algorithm
10:30-10:55 Break
11:00-11:25 Benjamin Wong ................. Non-planar graphs: generalizing the magic square game
11:30-11:55 Ege Ciklabakkal ................. Quantum coin method for numerical integration

December 16 (Friday) 1:00pm-3:25pm in QNC 0101
01:00-01:25
Pulkit Sinha ........................ Power of 2-round quantum interactive proof systems
01:30-01:55 Lewis Hahn ........................ N-body interactions to create N-qubit gates
02:00-02:25 Break
02:30-02:55 Ilyas Sharif ......................... Quantum machine learning and the HHL algorithm
03:00-03:25 Ben Jarvis-Frain ................. Survey of error correcting codes for boson qubits

December 19 (Monday) 9:30am-11:55am in QNC 0101
09:30-09:55
Haochen Sun ..................... Quantum machine learning (part 1)
10:00-10:25 Shufan Zhang .................... Quantum machine learning (part 2)
10:30-10:55 Break
11:00-11:25 Camille Lacroix ................. Quantum oracle interrogation
11:30-11:55 Remy El Sabeh .................. Quantum walks and their algorithmic applications

December 19 (Monday) 1:00pm-3:25pm in QNC 0101
01:00-01:25
Xiao Yang .......................... Quantum oracle interrogation
01:30-01:55 Albie Chan ......................... Efficient simulation of quantum circuits using stabilizers
02:00-02:25 Break
02:30-02:55
Tiasa Mondol .................... Quantum PCP conjecture
03:00-03:25 Alec Gow ........................... TBA

December 20 (Tuesday) 1:00pm-3:25pm in QNC 0101
01:00-01:25
Justin Schrier .................... Six State - four state quantum key distribution
01:30-01:55 Brian Rojkov ...................... HHL algorithm for systems of linear equations
02:00-02:25 Break
02:30-02:55 Tejas Naik ........................... Blind quantum computing
03:00-03:25 Ali Ghadirli ......................... The parity bit in quantum cryptography

December 21 (Wednesday) 9:30am-11:55am in QNC 0101
09:30-09:55
Owen Lailey ....................... Discrete time quantum random walk
10:00-10:25 Alice Murphy ...................... Fully device-independent quantum key distribution
10:30-10:55 Break
11:00-11:25 Albert Shi ........................... Quantum algorithm for finding the variables of a function
11:30-11:55 Hawking Tan ...................... Fault-tolerance

December 22 (Thursday) 1:00pm-3:25pm in QNC 0101
01:00-01:25
YiDan Zheng ...................... Fault-tolerant quantum computation
01:30-01:55 Kimia Shaban .................... Post-quantum Merkle puzzles
02:00-02:25 Break
02:30-02:55 Amolak Ratan Kalra .......... Approximating gates from simple generating operations
03:00-03:25
Abrar Kazi ...........................Security of quantum key distribution from entropy accumulation