4th Workshop
on
Quantum Information Science

Department of Applied Mathematics,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
December 28-29, 2012

Purpose

The purpose of this workshop, as with previous workshops, is to bring together mathematicians and physicists working in quantum information so that scholars can exchange ideas and understand the important problems and results in this interdisciplinary field.

Organizers

  • Hoi-Fung Chau, The University of Hong Kong.
  • Raymond Nung-Sing Sze, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  • Guofeng Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Venue

Room AG710, Chung Sze Yuen Building, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong (Campus Map)
(Take elevator to 7/F at Core A or Core G)

Workshop Poster (link)

Tentative Schedule and program (as at 23th December, 2012) (Abstract)

  28th December, 2012 (Friday)
09:10 - 09:20

Opening
09:20 - 10:10 Shengjun Wu (University of Science and Technology of China)

Weak Measurement and its Applications
10:10 - 10:40 Hoi-Kwong Lo (University of Toronto)

Absolutely Maximally Entangled (AME) States
10:40 - 11:00

Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30 Shuang Cong (University of Science and Technology of China)

Adaptive Trajectory Tracking of Quantum Systems

11:30 - 12:00

Mankei Tsang (National University of Singapore)

Fundamental Quantum Limits to Waveform Sensing
12:00 - 12:30

Haidong Yuan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Optimal Control of Quantum Systems
12:30 - 14:00

Group Photo / Lunch
14:00 - 14:50

Peng Xue (Southeast University)

Implementation of Quantum Walks
14:50 - 15:20 Hoi-Fung Chau (The University of Hong Kong)

Entanglement Transformation between Sets of Bipartite Pure States by Local Operations Alone
15:20 - 15:40

Tea Break
15:40 - 16:10

Yiu-Tung Poon (Iowa State University)

Quantum Error Correction for Phase-flip Errors
16:10 - 17:40

Mikio Nakahara (Kinki Univerisity)

Concatenated Composite Pulses
17:40 - 17:10 Chi-Hang Fred Fung (The University of Hong Kong)

Disguising Quantum Channels by Mixing and Channel Distance Trade-off
 

 
  29th December, 2012 (Saturday)
09:20 - 10:10 Seung-Hyeok Kye (Seoul National University)

Simplicial Faces and Lengths for Separable States
10:10 - 10:40

Chi-Kwong Li (College of William and Mary)

Basic Results in Quantum Computing and Elementary Linear Algebra
10:40 - 11:00

Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30 Ming Zhang (National University of Defense Technology)

On Robust Quantum Information Processing
11:30 - 12:00 Hong-Yi Dai (National University of Defense Technology)

TBA
12:00 - 12:30 Yuchun Wu (University of Science and Technology of China)

Correlation Polytope and Bell Inequalities
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 14:30

Kan He (Taiyuan University of Technology)

Quantum Measurement Maps and Maps Preserving Convex Combinations of Quantum States

14:30 - 15:00

Guofeng Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Geometric Measure of Entanglement Using Tensor Spectra
15:00 - 15:30

Utkan Güngördu (Kinki University)

Geometric Quantum Gates Based on Dynamical Invariants

15:30 - 15:50

Tea Break
15:50 - 16:20

Xiaofei Qi (Shanxi University)

Constructing Optimal Entanglement Witnesses by Permutations
16:20 - 16:50

Siqing Yan (Taiyuan University of Technology)

The Generalized Partial Transposition Separability Criterion for Infinite-dimensions Quantum System
16:50 - 17:00

Closing Ceremony

 

Registration and deadlines

There will be no registration fee for the meeting.

To register, please send the following information to Raymond Nung-Sing Sze (raymond.sze@polyu.edu.hk).

  • Name
  • Affiliation
  • Email

In case you want to give a contributed talk, please also send the title and abstract to (raymond.sze@polyu.edu.hk) by December 1, 2012 using the template.

Accommodation

Workshop participant will stay at Harbour Plaza Metropolis (都会海逸酒店)

There are several ways to arrive the hotel from HK airport:

  • By Taxi: From the airport directly to hotel. (Fee: around HKD$250 – $300)

  • By Airport Express: From the airport to Kowloon Station. Then take a free shuttle bus (Route K1), which will stop in front of the hotel. (Free: HKD$90 each)

  • By Airport Bus: Route A21 from the airport to Hung Hom Bus Terminal (Last stop). The hotel is around 7 min walk from the bus station. (Fee: HKD$33 each)

You may find the Map of HK airport andmore transportation information in the link.


Confirmed participants (as at November 28, 2012)

  • Hoi-Fung Chau, The University of Hong Kong.
  • Shuang Cong, University of Science and Technology of China.
  • Hong-Yi Dai, National University of Defense Technology.
  • Chi-Hang Fred Fung, The University of Hong Kong.
  • Utkan Güngördu, Kinki University.
  • Kan He, Taiyuan University of Technology.
  • Siqing Yan, Taiyuan University of Technology.
  • Zejun Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  • Seung-Hyeok Kye, Seoul National University.
  • Chi-Kwong Li, College of William and Mary.
  • Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto.

 
  • Mikio Nakahara, Kinki University.
  • Yiu-Tung Poon, Iowa State University.
  • Xiaofei Qi, Shanxi University.
  • Raymond Nung-Sing Sze, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  • Mankei Tsang, National University of Singapore.
  • Shengjun Wu, University of Science and Technology of China.
  • Yuchun Wu, University of Science and Technology of China.
  • Peng Xue, Southeast University.
  • Haidong Yuan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  • Guofeng Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  • Ming Zhang, National University of Defense Technology.

 

Workshop Photos (link)

Sponsors

The AMSS-PolyU Joint Research Institute and Hong Kong Research Grant Council

Past Workshops

(Updated on December 23, 2012)