Program

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Schedule At A Glance

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Invited speakers

  • Harrow, Aram (MIT): Mary Beth Ruskai Memorial Lecture
  • Khurana, Dakshita (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Cryptographic Hardness in a Quantum World
  • Leung, Debbie (University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics): Christopher King Memorial Lecture
  • Nayak, Ashwin (University of Waterloo): State distinguishability and learning
  • Schumacher, Benjamin (Kenyon College): A brief prehistory of qubits (Public Lecture)
  • Vershynina, Anna (University of Houston): Quantum resource theory of coherence

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Program

Monday, July 29

Morning session: Shannon theory (Chair: Christoph Hirche)

  • 09:00 – 10:00: Harrow, Aram (MIT): Mary Beth Ruskai Memorial Lecture
  • 10:00 – 10:30: Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Mazzola, Giulia (ETH Zürich): Entropy of almost-iid states
  • 11:00 – 11:30: Belzig, Paula (University of Waterloo): Fully quantum arbitrarily varying channel coding for entanglement-assisted communication
  • 11:30 – 12:00: Ji, Kaiyuan (Cornell University): Postselected communication over quantum channels
  • 12:30 – 13:00: Bullock, Michael (University of Arizona): Covert Communication over Classical-Quantum Channels

Afternoon session: Resource theories (Chair: Bartosz Regula)

  • 14:00 – 14:30: Kuroiwa, Kohdai (University of Waterloo): Every quantum helps: Operational advantage of quantum resources beyond convexity
  • 14:30 – 15:00: Son, Jeongrak (Nanyang Technological University): A hierarchy of thermal processes collapses under catalysis
  • 15:00 – 15:30: Xuereb, Jake (Technische Universität Wien): Quantum Coding with Finite Thermodynamic Resources
  • 15:30 – 17:30: Poster session
  • 17:30 – 18:30: Schumacher, Benjamin (Kenyon College): A brief prehistory of qubits (Public Lecture; Chair: Mark Wilde)

Tuesday, July 30

Morning session: One-shot Shannon theory (Chair: Uzi Pereg)

  • 09:00 – 10:00: Nayak, Ashwin (University of Waterloo): State distinguishability and learning
  • 10:00 – 10:30: Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Schmitt, Lukas (ETH Zürich): Cutting circuits with multiple two-qubit unitaries
  • 11:00 – 11:30: Atif, Touheed Anwar (University of Michigan): Quantum soft-covering lemma with applications to rate-distortion coding, resolvability and identification via quantum channels
  • 11:30 – 12:00: Nema, Aditya (RWTH Aachen): One shot multiple access channel simulation
  • 12:00 – 12:30: Nuradha, Theshani (Cornell University): An invitation to the sample complexity of quantum hypothesis testing

Afternoon session: Mathematical physics (Chair: Mario Berta)

  • 14:00 – 14:30: Jabbour, Michael (Université libre de Bruxelles): Tightening continuity bounds on entropies and bounds on quantum capacities
  • 14:30 – 15:00: Arai, Hayato (RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing): One-shot and asymptotic classical capacity in general physical theories
  • 15:00 – 15:30: LaRacuente, Nicholas (University of Indiana Bloomington): Approximate Unitary k-Designs from Shallow, Low-Communication Circuits
  • 15:30 – 16:30: Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 18:00: Open problems session (Chair: Felix Leditzky)

Wednesday, July 31

Morning session: Quantum entropies (Chair: Ludovico Lami)

  • 09:00 – 10:00: Leung, Debbie (University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics): Christopher King Memorial Lecture
  • 10:00 – 10:30: Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Hirche, Christoph (Leibniz Universität Hannover): Quantum Rényi and f-divergences from integral representations
  • 11:00 – 11:30: Koßmann, Gereon (RWTH Aachen): Optimising the relative entropy under semi definite constraints – A new tool for estimating key rates in QKD
  • 11:30 – 12:00: Mishra, Hemant K. (Cornell University): On the optimal error exponents for classical and quantum antidistinguishability MERGED WITH Multivariate Fidelities
  • 12:00 – 12:30: Marwah, Ashutosh (Université de Montréal): Universal smooth min-entropy chain rules from entropic triangle inequalities

Thursday, August 1

Morning session: Entanglement theory (Chair: Eric Chitambar)

  • 09:00 – 10:00: Khurana, Dakshita (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Cryptographic Hardness in a Quantum World
  • 10:00 – 10:30: Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Kondra, Tulja Varun (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): Catalytic and asymptotic equivalence for quantum entanglement
  • 11:00 – 11:30: Regula, Bartosz (RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing): Connecting entanglement distillation and entanglement testing with restricted measurements
  • 11:30 – 12:00: Zang, Allen (University of Chicago): No-Go Theorems on Universal Entanglement Purification
  • 12:00 – 12:30: Lami, Ludovico (University of Amsterdam & QuSoft): Computable entanglement cost

Afternoon session: Shannon theory beyond IID (Chair: Aditya Nema)

  • 14:00 – 14:30: Smith, Graeme (University of Waterloo): A class of non-degradable channels with additive maximal coherent information
  • 14:30 – 15:00: Lederman, Meir (Technion): Secure Communication with Unreliable Entanglement Assistance: Interception and Loss
  • 15:00 – 15:30: Nator, Hosen (Technion): Quantum Coordination in Multi-User Networks
  • 15:30 – 16:30: Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 18:00: Career panel (Chair: Marius Junge): with panelists Mario Berta, Emily Edwards, Debbie Leung, Graeme Smith, and Anna Vershynina

Friday, August 2

Morning session: Quantum states and learning theory (Chair: Ian George)

  • 09:00 – 10:00: Vershynina, Anna (University of Houston): Quantum resource theory of coherence
  • 10:00 – 10:30: Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Blakaj, Vjosa (Technische Universität München): On the set of reduced states of translation invariant, infinite quantum systems
  • 11:00 – 11:30: Chen, Xinan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Entanglement distribution from a central source
  • 11:30 – 12:00: Fanizza, Marco (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Learning finitely correlated states: stability of the spectral reconstruction
  • 12:00 – 12:30: Beatty, Emily (ENS Lyon): Order p quantum Wasserstein distances from couplings

Afternoon session: Continuous variables and error correction (Chair: Paula Belzig)

  • 14:00 – 14:30: Falco, Alessandro (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): The multimode conditional quantum Entropy Power Inequality and the squashed entanglement of the extreme multimode bosonic Gaussian channels
  • 14:30 – 15:00: Mele, Francesco Anna (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): Learning quantum states of continuous variable systems
  • 15:00 – 15:30: Coffee break
  • 15:30 – 16:00: Oliviero, Salvatore F. E. (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): Magic-induced computational separation in entanglement theory
  • 16:00 – 16:30: Tanggara, Andrew (National University of Singapore): Strategic Code: A Unified Spatio-Temporal Framework for Quantum Error-Correction

Talks not presented

  • Compression of shallow-circuit quantum states (this work will not be presented)
  • Conditional Independence of 1D Gibbs States with Applications to Efficient Learning (this work will not be presented)
  • Fundamental limits of metrology at thermal equilibrium (this work will not be presented)
  • Locally-Measured Rényi Divergences (this work will not be presented)
  • Quantum communication on the bosonic loss-dephasing channel (this work will not be presented)
  • Quantum Metrology with Constrained Ancilla (this work will not be presented)
  • Three-Receiver Quantum Broadcast Channels: Classical Communication with Quantum Non-unique Decoding (this work will not be presented)
  • Zero-error communication, scrambling, and ergodicity (this work will not be presented)

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Confirmed poster presentations

  • Burri, Laura (ETH Zürich): Doubly minimized Petz Renyi mutual information
  • Cai, Jihong (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Upper and Lower bounds for Simulating the Quantum Birth-Death Process
  • Cheng, Ruo (Nanyang Technological University): Quantum Pattern Engine
  • George, Ian (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Time-Constrained Local Quantum State Discrimination
  • He, Haiyun (Cornell University): Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds for Deep Neural Networks
  • John, Tiju Cherian (University of Arizona): Monotonicity of Entropy of the Distribution of Observables Under the Quantum Central Limit Theorem
  • Kondra, Tulja Varun (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): Coherence Manipulation in Asymmetry and Thermodynamics
  • Lo, Yun-Feng (Georgia Institute of Technology): Degradability of Modified Landau-Streater Type Low-Noise Quantum Channels in High Dimensions
  • Meier, Florian (Technische Universität Wien): Autonomous Quantum Processing Unit: What does it take to construct a self-contained model for quantum computation?
  • Murray, Hailey (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Quantum Channel Masking
  • Nuradha, Theshani (Cornell University): Fidelity-Based Smooth Min-Relative Entropy: Properties and Applications
  • Patel, Dhrumil (Cornell University): Quantum Neural Estimation of Entropies
  • Philip, Aby (Cornell University): Device Independent Certification of Tripartite Distillable Entanglement
  • Singh, Vishal (Cornell University): Limitations on one-way secret-key distillation via unextendibility
  • Son, Jeongrak (Nanyang Technological University): Quantum dynamic programming from quantum instructions
  • Su, Jun (The University of Hong Kong): Effect of Feedback on the Capacity of the Continuous-time ARMA(1,1) Gaussian Channel
  • Vairogs, Chris (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Localizable multipartite entanglement
  • Wosti, Rabins (University of South Carolina): Optimal lower bound for lossless quantum block encoding
  • Yadavalli, Shiv Akshar (Duke University): Noisy Quantum Trees: Infinite Protection without Correction
  • Zeiss, Julius (RWTH Aachen): Approximating Fixed Size Quantum Correlations in Polynomial Time
  • Zhang, Yanbao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory): An efficient method for spot-checking quantum properties with sequential trials
  • Zhou, Stephen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): On the distinguishability of geometrically uniform quantum states

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Open problems session

The title of each open problem links to a zip file with photos of the blackboard presentation.

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