Sydney Quantum Information Workshop    Coogee Bay Hotel, Sydney
           
  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TIME 2-Feb 3-Feb 4-Feb 5-Feb 6-Feb
  Focus Session: Quantum Information and Quantum Many-body Physics  
9:00-9:30 Register/Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
9:30-10:45 Tutorial:               Toric codes and cluster states Uhrig (TU-Dortmund) Girelli (Sydney) Wiseman (Griffith) Möttönen (UNSW)
10:45-11:15 Break Break Break Break Break
11:15-12:30 Tutorial:                   PEPS and matrix product states Stace (UQ) Round Table / Discussion Brennen (MQ) Problem Session / Wrap-Up
12:30-1:00 Lunch Lunch Picnic Lunch Lunch Lunch
1:00-3:15 Free time Free time Free time Free time
3:15-3:30 Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
3:30-4:45 Flammia (PI) Miyake (PI) Menicucci (PI) Doherty (UQ)
All sessions in the Seaview Room, Coogee Bay Hotel Conference Centre
The room is available for workshop activities at any time between 8:30am and 5pm every day
Lunch is provided every day
Talk titles  
Brennen Global operations for protected quantum memories
Doherty 2-local Hamiltonians for the toric code and string-net states
Flammia Heralded Polynomial-Time Quantum State Tomography
Girelli Interplay between quantum gravity and quantum information
Menicucci Unified Graph Calculus for Gaussian Pure States
Miyake Measurement-based quantum computation on a ground state with non-vanishing correlation functions
Möttönen Topological phase imprinting and monopoles in coherent matter fields
Stace How robust are topological error-correction codes against losses?
Uhrig Coherent control of quantum bits:  Optimization of pulse sequences and pulse shapes
Wiseman Joint-measurability and the Overprotective Vizier Problem