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QIP

QIP · 2012

Montreal, Canada, 12–16 December 2011.


44
talks
128
posters
349
unique authors
28
regular papers
9
invited talks
0
awards
32
committee members

Announced at the business meeting

Figures as reported by the chairs. They can differ from the counts above.

40
talks accepted a
122
posters accepted

Slides and reports

Notes

  1. Talks accepted. PC-chair report in program booklet: "pick 40 papers and 122 posters"

Programme

Title Type Date Min Authors Award
Topological qubits: stability against thermal noise plenary 2011-12-12 09:15 55 Sergey Bravyi —
Advances in classical communication for network quantum information theory invited 2011-12-12 10:10 30 Omar Fawzi, Patrick Hayden, Ivan Savov, Pranab Sen, Mark M. Wilde —
Quantum rate distortion, reverse Shannon theorems, and source-channel separation ↗
regular 2011-12-12 11:05 25 Nilanjana Datta, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Mark M. Wilde —
Quantum communication with gaussian channels of zero quantum capacity regular 2011-12-12 11:30 25 Graeme Smith, John Smolin, Jon Yard —
Bounds on the distance between a unital quantum channel and the convex hull of unitary channels, with applications to the asymptotic quantum Birkhoff conjecture ↗
regular 2011-12-12 11:55 25 Nengkun Yu, Runyao Duan, Quanhua Xu —
Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Atoms - A Microscopic View of Artificial Quantum Matter plenary 2011-12-12 14:00 55 Markus Greiner —
Optimal Bounds for Quantum Bit Commitment ↗
invited 2011-12-12 14:55 30 Andre Chailloux, Iordanis Kerenidis —
Merkle Puzzles in a Quantum World invited 2011-12-12 15:50 30 Gilles Brassard, Peter Høyer, Kassem Kalach, Marc Kaplan, Sophie Laplante, Louis Salvail —
Simplified instantaneous non-local quantum computation with applications to position-based cryptography ↗
regular 2011-12-12 16:25 25 Salman Beigi, Robert König —
The Garden-Hose Game and Application to Position-Based Quantum Cryptography regular 2011-12-12 16:50 25 Harry Buhrman, Serge Fehr, Christian Schaffner, Florian Speelman —
An improved area law for 1D frustration-free systems plenary 2011-12-13 09:00 55 Itai Arad, Zeph Landau, Umesh Vazirani —
Stability of Frustration-Free Hamiltonians regular 2011-12-13 09:55 25 Spyridon Michalakis, Justyna Pytel —
Three Proofs of a Constructive Commuting Quantum Lovasz Local Lemma regular 2011-12-13 10:40 25 Toby Cubitt, Martin Schwarz, Frank Verstraete, Or Sattath, Itai Arad —
Complexity of commuting Hamiltonians on a square lattice of qubits ↗
regular 2011-12-13 11:05 25 Norbert Schuch —
Infinitely many constrained inequalities for the von Neumann entropy ↗
regular 2011-12-13 11:30 25 Josh Cadney, Noah Linden, Andreas Winter —
Local stabilizer codes in three dimensions without string logical operators ↗
plenary 2011-12-13 14:00 55 Jeongwan Haah —
Fault-tolerant quantum computing with color codes ↗
regular 2011-12-13 14:55 25 Andrew Landahl, Jonas Anderson, Patrick Rice —
Equivalence of Topological Codes and Fast Decoding Algorithms ↗
invited 2011-12-13 15:40 30 Guillaume Duclos-Cianci, Hector Bombin, David Poulin —
Quantum Polar Coding regular 2011-12-13 16:15 25 Joseph M. Renes, Frédéric Dupuis, Renato Renner —
Disorder-assisted error correction in Majorana chains ↗
invited 2011-12-13 16:40 30 Sergey Bravyi, Robert König —
A strong direct product theorem for quantum query complexity ↗
invited 2011-12-14 09:00 30 Troy Lee, Jeremie Roland —
The Complexity of the Separable Hamiltonian Problem regular 2011-12-14 09:35 25 Andre Chailloux, Or Sattath —
Epsilon-net method for optimizations over separable states regular 2011-12-14 10:00 25 Yaoyun Shi, Xiaodi Wu —
Hedging bets with correlated quantum strategies ↗
regular 2011-12-14 10:45 25 Abel Molina, John Watrous —
Explicit lower and upper bounds on the entangled value of multiplayer XOR games regular 2011-12-14 11:10 25 Jop Briët, Thomas Vidick —
Parallel approximation of min-max problems with applications to classical and quantum zero-sum games ↗
invited 2011-12-14 11:35 30 Gus Gutoski, Xiaodi Wu —
Span Programs for Functions with Constant-Sized 1-certificates ↗
plenary 2011-12-15 09:00 55 Aleksandrs Belovs —
Improved Output-Sensitive Quantum Algorithms for Boolean Matrix Multiplication regular 2011-12-15 09:55 25 François Le Gall —
Discrete simulations of continuous-time query algorithms that are efficient with respect to queries, gates and space regular 2011-12-15 10:20 25 Dominic Berry, Richard Cleve, Sevag Gharibian —
Hidden Symmetry Subgroup Problems regular 2011-12-15 11:05 25 Thomas Decker, Gabor Ivanyos, Miklos Santha, Pawel Wocjan —
A quantum information cost trade-off for the Augmented Index regular 2011-12-15 11:30 25 Rahul Jain, Ashwin Nayak —
Hardness of approximation for quantum problems regular 2011-12-15 11:55 25 Sevag Gharibian, Julia Kempe —
Quantum rejection sampling ↗
regular 2011-12-15 14:00 — Jeremie Roland, Martin Rötteler, Maris Ozols —
Spectral Gap Amplification regular 2011-12-15 14:55 25 Rolando Somma, Sergio Boixo —
Quantum query complexity for state conversion invited 2011-12-15 15:40 30 Troy Lee, Rajat Mittal, Ben Reichardt, Robert Spalek, Mario Szegedy —
Local random quantum circuits are approximate polynomial-designs invited 2011-12-15 16:15 30 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Aram Harrow, Michał Horodecki —
Increasing Entanglement by Separable Operations and New Monotones for W-type Entanglement ↗
plenary 2011-12-16 09:00 55 Eric Chitambar, Wei Cui, Hoi-Kwong Lo —
Quantum correlations require multipartite information principles ↗
regular 2011-12-16 09:55 25 Rodrigo Gallego, Lars Erik Würflinger, Antonio Acin, Miguel Navascués —
Preparing projected entangled pair states on a quantum computer regular 2011-12-16 10:40 25 Martin Schwarz, Kristan Temme, Frank Verstraete, Toby Cubitt, David Perez-Garcia —
The Link between Uncertainty Relations and Non-Locality ↗
regular 2011-12-16 11:05 25 Esther Hänggi, Marco Tomamichel —
Information Causality is a Special Point in the Dual of the Gray-Wyner Region ↗
regular 2011-12-16 11:30 25 Salman Beigi, Amin Gohari —
Practical characterization of quantum devices without tomography regular 2011-12-16 13:35 25 Marcus P. Da Silva, Steven Flammia, Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Yi-Kai Liu, David Poulin —
Paranoid tomography: Confidence regions for quantum hardware ↗
regular 2011-12-16 14:00 25 Robin Blume-Kohout —
The smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics plenary 2011-12-16 14:25 55 Sandu Popescu —
9-State 1-Dim Hamiltonians is QMA-complete poster — — Sandeep Narayanaswami, Sean Hallgren —
A Class of Quantum Double Subsystem Codes poster — — Prashant Kumar, Andrew Doherty —
A Computational Modeling Framework for Quantum Fourier Transform Algorithms poster — — Domingo Rodriguez —
A Nearest-Neighbor Architecture for Shor's Factoring Algorithm with Sub-Quadratic Depth poster — — Paul Pham, Krysta Marie Svore —
A Perturbative Approach to PEPS Parent Hamiltonians poster — — Courtney Brell, Stephen D. Bartlett, Andrew Doherty —
A generalization of Schur-Weyl duality with applications in quantum estimation poster — — Iman Marvian, Robert Spekkens —
A monomial matrix formalism to describe quantum many-body states poster — — Maarten Van den Nest —
A novel quantum key distribution protocol and its experimental implement poster — — Sheng-Mei Zhao, Xiang-Liang Dong, Fei Cao, Long-Yan Gong —
A quantum protocol for sampling correlated equilibria unconditionally and without a mediator poster — — Iordanis Kerenidis, Shengyu Zhang —
A short proof of the Quantum Substate Theorem poster — — Rahul Jain, Ashwin Nayak —
Algorithmic Cooling of a Quantum Simulator poster — — Dvir Kafri, Jacob Taylor —
An All-But-One Entropic Uncertainty Relation, and Application to Password-based Identification poster — — Niek J. Bouman, Serge Fehr, Carlos Gonzalez-Guillen, Christian Schaffner —
An extension of the exchange fluctuation theorem for initially correlated systems poster — — Yuji Hirono, Shojun Nakayama, David Jennings, Terry Rudolph, Mio Murao —
An information-driven approach to thermodynamics poster — — Adrian Hutter, Lidia del Rio, Renato Renner, Stephanie Wehner —
Asymptotic local hypothesis testing between a pure bipartite state and the completely mixed state poster — — Masaki Owari, Masahito Hayashi —
Band Diagonal Strategies for Two-Prover One-Round Entangled Non-Local Games poster — — Mateus De Oliveira Oliveira —
Causal structure of MERA poster — — Cédric Bény —
Classification of Four qubit Entangled States via negativity Fonts poster — — Santosh Shelly Sharma, Naresh Kumar Sharma, Paulo Jose Dos Reis —
Classification of Multipartite Entanglement via Negativity Fonts poster — — Santosh Shelly Sharma, Naresh Kumar Sharma —
Closed timelike curves in measurement-based quantum computation poster — — Ernesto F. Galvão, Raphael Dias Da Silva, Elham Kashefi —
Conservation law for distributed entanglement of formation and quantum discord poster — — Felipe Fanchini, Marcio Cornelio, Marcos C. de Oliveira, Caldeira Amir —
Decoherence on Szegedy's Quantum Walk poster — — Raqueline A. M. Santos, Renato Portugal, Franklin De Lima Marquezino —
Degenerate Viterbi Decoding poster — — Emilie Pelchat, David Poulin —
Designing quantum circuits for efficient many-body quantum simulation poster — — Sadegh Raeisi, Nathan Wiebe, Barry Sanders —
Dipole-Dipole-Interaction-Induced Anyon Dynamics in the Toric Code poster — — Christian Schuette-Nuetgen, Cyril Stark, Renato Renner —
Distinguishing Maximally Entangled States by PPT Operations and Entanglement Discrimination Catalysis poster — — Nengkun Yu, Runyao Duan, Mingsheng Ying —
EWL Scheme for Quantum Voting poster — — Dmitry Kravchenko —
Efficient simulation of dissipative quantum dynamics on a quantum computer poster — — Martin Kliesch, Thomas Barthel, Christian Gogolin, Michael Kastoryano, Jens Eisert —
Entanglement Cost of Quantum Channels poster — — Mario Berta, Matthias Christandl, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Stephanie Wehner —
Entanglement Irreversibility from Quantum Discord and Quantum Deficit poster — — Marcio Fernando Cornelio, Marcos C. de Oliveira, Felipe Fanchini —
Entanglement Swapping in an Imperfect Channel poster — — Jin Woo Jun —
Entanglement generation between remote atomic qubits interacting with two mode Squeezed vacuum field poster — — Naresh Kumar Sharma, Santosh Shelly Sharma, Paulo Jose Dos Reis —
Entanglement of phase-random states poster — — Yoshifumi Nakata, Peter Turner, Mio Murao —
Error Correction Property of the Surface Codes with General Lattices poster — — Keisuke Fujii, Yuuki Tokunaga —
Exact infinite-time statistics of the Loschmidt echo for a quantum quench poster — — Siddhartha Santra, N. Tobias Jacobson, Lorenzo Venuti, Paolo Zanardi —
Exact quantum query algorithms for small boolean functions poster — — Ashley Montanaro, Richard Jozsa, Graeme Mitchison —
Extended Clifford Group Circuit and Applications poster — — Yasuhito Kawano —
Extended Nonlocality-Assisted Random Access Coding and Information Causality poster — — Eyuri Wakakuwa, Mio Murao —
Extending matchgates into universal quantum computation poster — — Daniel Jost Brod, Ernesto F. Galvão —
Extension Theorems for Quantum Operations poster — — David Reeb, Teiko Heinosaari, Anastasia Jivulescu, Michael Wolf —
Gaussification and entanglement distillation of continuous variable systems: a unifying picture poster — — Earl Campbell, Jens Eisert —
Graphical calculus for Gaussian pure states poster — — Nicolas Menicucci, Steven Flammia, Peter Van Loock —
Heisenberg scaling of time-limited quantum metrology with realistic decoherence poster — — Maxime Hardy, William A. Coish —
Homological Stabilizer Codes poster — — Jonas Anderson, Chris Cesare —
Hypothesis testing of a maximally entangled state under the unknown unitary process poster — — Fuyuhiko Tanaka, Takuma Takeuchi —
I Come To Bury Entanglement, Not To Praise It poster — — Nathan Harshman —
Improved Upper Bounds on the Quantum Capacity of the Depolarizing Channel with Higher Dimension Amplitude Damping Channels poster — — Yingkai Ouyang —
In the search of operational quantities for characterizing large quantum systems poster — — Pascal Basler, Normand Beaudry, Renato Renner —
Inequalities for Testing Non-local Hidden Variable Models Versus Quantum Correlations poster — — Akbar Fahmi —
Inverting the Central Limit Theorem poster — — Miguel Navascués, David Perez-Garcia, Ignacio Villanueva —
Lieb-Robinson Bounds and the Existence of the Thermodynamic Limit for a Class of Irreversible Quantum Dynamics poster — — Anna Vershynina, Bruno Nachtergaele, Valentin Zagrebnov —
Linear bounded automata based on unsharp quantum logic poster — — Yun Shang, Xian Lu, Ruqian Lu —
Local unitary classes of symmetric mixed states poster — — David W. Lyons, Scott N. Walck —
Maximal CHSH violations with low efficiency photodetection and homodyne measurements poster — — Marco Túlio Quintino, Mateus Araújo, Daniel Cavalcanti, Marcelo França Santos, Marcelo Terra Cunha —
Measurement based quantum computation as a toy-model for a quantum theory of spacetime poster — — Robert Raussendorf, Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Poya Haghnegahdar —
Measurement-based quantum computation with the cluster state is robust to symmetric perturbations in the parent Hamiltonian poster — — Dominic Else, Stephen D. Bartlett, Andrew Doherty —
Measurement-induced nonlocality for an arbitrary bipartite state poster — — Sayyed Yahya Mirafzali, Ali Ahanj —
Measuring quantum correlations using lossy photon-number-resolving detectors with saturation poster — — Si-Hui Tan, Leonid Krivitsky, Berthold-Georg Englert —
Mutual information in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model poster — — Johannes Wilms, Julien Vidal, Frank Verstraete, Sébastien Dusuel —
NP has log-space verifiers with fixed-size public quantum registers poster — — Abuzer Yakaryılmaz, A.C. Cem Say —
No-Signaling Principle, Guessing Probability, and General Structure of Optimal Quantum State Discrimination poster — — Joonwoo Bae, Won-Young Hwang, Yeong-Deok Han —
Non-Abelian Duistermaat-Heckman Measures and the Quantum Marginal Problem poster — — Michael Walter, Matthias Christandl, Stavros Kousidis, Brent Doran —
Nonlocality test for continuous variable system with local symplectic operation poster — — Junghee Ryu, James Lim, Changhyoup Lee, Jinhyoung Lee —
Observable measure of quantum correlations poster — — Davide Girolami, Gerardo Adesso —
On characterizing quantum correlated equilibria poster — — Zhaohui Wei, Shengyu Zhang —
On obtaining maximally nonclassical state from arbitrary classical state using inverse boson operators poster — — J K Sharma, Sushamana Sharma, Rajshri Vyas —
On some special cases of the Entropy Photon-Number Inequality poster — — Smarajit Das, Naresh Kumar Sharma, Siddharth Muthukrishnan —
On the Optimality of Work Extraction in Small Thermodynamical Systems poster — — Philippe Faist, Johan Aaberg, Renato Renner —
On the power quantum computation over real Hilbert spaces poster — — Matthew McKague —
On zero-error communication via quantum channels in the presence of noiseless feedback poster — — Runyao Duan, Simone Severini, Andreas Winter —
One-shot entanglement-assisted classical communication poster — — Nilanjana Datta, Min-Hsiu Hsieh —
Optimal Algorithms for Quantum Clocks poster — — Mike Mullan, Emanuel Knill —
Optimal entanglement manipulation via coherent-state transmission poster — — Go Kato, Koji Azuma —
Optimally Fast Quantum Solitude Detection on Anonymous Directed Networks poster — — Seiichiro Tani —
Parallelization of entanglement-resistant multi-prover interactive proofs poster — — Tsuyoshi Ito —
Perfect discrimination of no-signalling channels via quantum superposition of causal structures poster — — Giulio Chiribella —
Polar codes for classical-quantum channels poster — — Mark M. Wilde, Saikat Guha —
QMA variants with polynomially many provers poster — — Sevag Gharibian, Jamie Sikora, Sarvagya Upadhyay —
Quantifying Quantum Correlations in Fermionic Systems using Witness Operators poster — — Fernando Iemini —
Quantum 2-SAT in 1D with Qutrits poster — — Daniel Nagaj, Libor Caha, Sergey Bravyi, Ramis Movassagh —
Quantum 2-SAT in 1D with Qutrits. poster — — Daniel Nagaj, Libor Caha, Sergey Bravyi, Ramis Movassagh —
Quantum Algorithms for Invariants of Triangulated Manifolds poster — — Gorjan Alagic, Edgar Bering —
Quantum Algorithms for One-Dimensional Infrastructures poster — — Pawel Wocjan, Pradeep Sarvepali —
Quantum Clustering-Based Sampling Algorithms for Active Machine Learning poster — — Tina Yu, Chen-Hsiang Yeang —
Quantum Cryptography Approaching the Classical Limit poster — — Christian Weedbrook, Stefano Pirandola, Seth Lloyd, Timothy C. Ralph —
Quantum Entanglement in Random Physical States poster — — Siddhartha Santra, Alioscia Hamma, Paolo Zanardi —
Quantum Fingerprinting for Quantum Branching Programs poster — — Farid Ablayev, Alexander Vasiliev —
Quantum Nonlocal Boxes Exhibit Stronger Distillability poster — — Peter Høyer, Jibran Rashid —
Quantum adversary lower bounds by polynomials poster — — Loïck Magnin, Jeremie Roland —
Quantum compressed sensing with general measurements poster — — Matthias Ohliger, Vincent Nesme, David Gross —
Quantum computation with narrow CTCs poster — — A.C. Cem Say, Abuzer Yakaryılmaz —
Quantum computing with incoherent resources and quantum jumps poster — — Marcelo França Santos, Marcelo Terra Cunha, Rafael Chaves, André Carvalho —
Quantum correlations require multipartite information principles poster — — Rodrigo Gallego, Lars Erik Würflinger, Antonio Acin, Miguel Navascués —
Quantum picturalism for topological cluster-state computing poster — — Clare Horsman —
Quantum strategies are better than classical in almost any XOR game poster — — Andris Ambainis, Arturs Backurs, Balodis Kaspars, Dmitry Kravcenko, Raitis Ozols, Juris Smotrovs, Madars Virza —
Quantum turbo-codes with unbounded minimum distance and excellent error-reducing performance poster — — Mamdouh Abbara, Jean-Pierre Tillich —
Reduction from non-injective hidden shift problem to injective hidden shift problem poster — — Mirmojtaba Gharibi —
Relativistic Quantum Bit via Foundations of Relativistic Quantum Theory poster — — Tiago Debarba —
Reliability of a classical-quantum communication system with noisy feedback poster — — Aman Chawla —
Revealing nonlocal correlations without measuring them: Hidden influence explanations of quantum correlations can not remain hidden poster — — Jean-Daniel Bancal, Stefano Pironio, Antonio Acin, Yeong-Cherng Liang, Valerio Scarani, Nicolas Gisin —
Search by quantum walks on two dimensional grid without amplitude amplification poster — — Andris Ambainis, Arturs Backurs, Nikolajs Nahimovs, Raitis Ozols, Alexander Rivosh —
Security of Authentication with Partially Fixed Key in Quantum Key Distribution poster — — Aysajan Abidin, Jan-Åke Larsson —
Sequential, successive, and simultaneous decoders for entanglement-assisted classical communication poster — — Shen Chen Xu, Mark M. Wilde —
Simulating equatorial measurements on GHZ states with finite expected communication cost poster — — Marc Kaplan, Gilles Brassard —
Stability Of Frustration-Free Hamiltonians poster — — Justyna (Pytel) Zwolak, Spyridon Michalakis —
Steering with superconducting transition edge sensors poster — — Devin Hugh Smith, Geoff Gillett, Marcelo de Almeida, Cyril Branciard, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Till J. Weinhold, Adriana E. Lita, Brice Calkins, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Howard Wiseman, Andrew White —
Superactivated Quantum Repeaters poster — — Laszlo Gyongyosi, Sandor Imre —
Tackling Quantum Channel Capacities using suitable Random Codes poster — — Moritz Ernst, Rochus Klesse —
Testing quantum circuits and detecting insecure encryption poster — — Bill Rosgen —
The Capabilities of a Perturbed Toric Code as a Quantum Memory poster — — Alastair Kay —
The Rank-1 Quantum Chromatic Number poster — — Giannicola Scarpa, Simone Severini —
The Smooth Entropy Formalism on von Neumann Algebras poster — — Mario Berta, Fabian Furrer, Volkher Scholz —
The apex of the family tree of protocols: Optimal rates and resource inequalities poster — — Nilanjana Datta, Min-Hsiu Hsieh —
The invalidity of a strong capacity for a quantum channel with memory poster — — Tony Dorlas, Ciara Morgan —
The power of O(1) qubits: perfect state discrimination with tiny quantum computers poster — — Robin Blume-Kohout, Sarah Croke, Michael Zwolak —
The quantum query complexity of read-many formulas poster — — Andrew Childs, Shelby Kimmel, Robin Kothari —
The quantum query complexity of read-many formulas. poster — — Andrew Childs, Shelby Kimmel, Robin Kothari —
Topological Geometric Entanglement of Blocks in Toric Codes poster — — Roman Orus, Tzu-Chieh Wei —
Translating measurement-based quantum computation into compact quantum circuits poster — — Raphael Dias Da Silva, Ernesto F. Galvão —
Tsirelson's bound from a Generalised Data Processing Inequality poster — — Oscar Dahlsten, Daniel Lercher, Renato Renner —
Unambiguously determining the orthogonality of multiple quantum states poster — — Shengshi Pang, Shengjun Wu —
Undecidability of quantum measurement occurrence poster — — Jens Eisert, Markus Müller, Christian Gogolin, Martin Kliesch —
Uselessness for an oracle model with internal randomness poster — — David J. Rosenbaum, Aram Harrow —
Variational quantum tomographies with incomplete information poster — — Thiago O. Maciel, Andre Cesario, Reinaldo Vianna —
When does noise increase the quantum capacity? poster — — Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Jonathan Oppenheim, Sergii Strelchuk —
Where to quantum walk? poster — — Viv Kendon —
Z-States Algebra for the Multi-Party Entanglement-Distillation Protocol poster — — Radel Ben-Av, Iaakov Exman —
Zero-error classical capacity of qubit channels cannot be superactivated poster — — Jeonghoon Park, Soojoon Lee —

Committees

Organizing Committee 6 members
Name Position Role Affiliation
Louis Salvail chair — general
Benno Salwey member — rump session
David Touchette member — webmaster
Kassem Kalach member Poster Session —
Magalie Lascar member — coordinator
Marc Kaplan member — visas and support
Program Committee 18 members
Name Position Role Affiliation
Dorit Aharonov chair — Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Christian Schaffner member — U. Amsterdam
David DiVincenzo member — Julich-Aachen
Debbie Leung member — Waterloo
Fernando G. S. L. Brandão member — Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Graeme Smith member — IBM, T.J. Watson
Hirotada Kobayashi member — NII
John Watrous member — Waterloo
Matthew B. Hastings member — UCSB
Michael Ben-Or member — Hebrew University
Norbert Schuch member — Caltech
Peter Shor member — MIT
Renato Renner member — ETH
Ronald de Wolf member — CWI
Sandy Irani member — UCI
Sergey Bravyi member — IBM, T.J. Watson
Stephanie Wehner member — NUS
Thomas Vidick member — UCB
Steering Committee 8 members
Name Position Role Affiliation
Louis Salvail chair — Universite de Montreal
Andreas Winter member — University of Bristol/ CQT, NUS
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao member — Tsinghua University
Aram Harrow member — University of Washington
Barbara Maria Terhal member — RWTH Aachen
Edward Farhi member — MIT
Ignacio Cirac member — MPQ, Garching
Patrick Hayden member — McGill University