Intensive Month on Operator Algebra and Quantum Information

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First week: Banach space tools in quantum information
(17th June-22nd June)

Morning talks
Guillaume Aubrun Université Lyon 1	Quantum marginals: the generic entanglement regime
Andreas Defant University of Oldenburg	The Bohnenblust-Hille inequality: yesterday and today
Ashley Montanaro University of Cambridge	Some applications of hypercontractive inequalities in quantum information theory
Stanislaw Szarek Case Western Reserve University	Emergence of entanglement: the phase transition
Kristan Temme MIT	Quantum logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and rapid mixing

Afternoon talks
Cecilia Lancien Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)	Distinguishing multi-partite states by local measurements
Angelo Lucia Universidad Complutense	Stability of local quantum dissipative systems
Timur Oikhberg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Ideals of operators on non-commutative function spaces
Adam Paszkiewicz University of Lodz	On some consequences of Gleason theorem and on Wootters conjecture

Abstracts

* Monday morning session will start at 9:45 with a short reception.

All talks will be delivered in Aula Gris 1.

Second week: Quantum channels
(24th June- 29th June)

Morning talks
Fernando Brandao University College London	The quantum separability problem and the unique games conjecture
Michal Horodecki University of Gdansk	Searching for contructive counterexamples for nonadditivity of minimal output entropy of channel
Stefano Pirandola University of York	Entanglement-breaking channels: Restoring entanglement by separable correlations
Graeme Smith IBM	Gaussian Bosonic States and Channels
Michael Wolf Technische Universität München	On spectral convergence bounds and the undecidability of control problems

Afternoon talks
Piotr Cwiklinski University of Gdansk	Local random quantum circuits are approximate polynomial-designs - numerical results
Raul Garcia-Patrón Max-Planck-Institut for Quantum Optics	The Holy Grail of Quantum Optical Communication
Carlo Ottaviani University of York	Two-way continuous variable quantum cryptography versus general attacks
Gaetana Spedalieri University of York	Quantum channel discrimination
Michal Studzinski University of Gdansk	On Irreducible representations of partially transposed permutation operators

Abstracts

* Monday morning session will start at 9:45 with a short reception.

All talks will be delivered in Aula Gris 1.

Third week: Quantum foundations and quantum cryptography
(1st July-6th July)

Morning talks
Antonio Acín ICFO (Barcelona)	Randomness and quantum non-locality
Adrain Kent University of Cambridge	Path Integrals, Reality and Generalizations of Quantum Theory
Lluis Masanes Cambridge University & Bristol University	The existence of an information unit as a postulate of quantum theory
Christian Schaffner University of Amsterdam & CWI	Complete Insecurity of Quantum Protocols for Classical Two-Party Computation
Stephanie Wehner CQT, National University of Singapore	Entanglement sampling and its applications

Afternoon talks
Pankajkumar Joshi University of Gdansk	DIQKD for 3 party using only one device per party
Corsin Pfister Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore	If no information gain implies no disturbance, then any discrete physical theory is classical
Ravishankar Ramanathan University of Gdansk	Free randomness amplification using bipartite chain correlations

Abstracts

* Monday morning session will start at 9:45 with a short reception.

All talks will be delivered in Aula Naranja.

Fourth week: Non-local games and Bell inequalities
(8th July- 13th July)

Morning talks
Harry Buhrman CWI Amsterdam	Applications of non-locality to mathematics and algebraic complexity
Ronald de Wolf CWI Amsterdam	Near-Optimal and Explicit Bell Inequality Violations
Aram Harrow MIT	Monogamy of non-signaling correlations
Marius Junge University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	TBA
Thomas Vidick MIT	NP-hardness of approximating the value of entangled 3-player XOR games

Afternoon talks
Tom Cooney Universidad Complutense de Madrid	Rank-One Quantum Games
Lukasz Czekaj University of Gdansk	Universal scheme for violation of local realism from quantum advantage in one-way communication complexity
Marcin Marciniak University of Gdansk	Description of various sets of correlations in terms of operator systems
Keiji Matsumoto National Institute of Informatics	Universally optimal input states for channel estimation/query complexity problems

Abstracts

* Monday morning session will start at 9:45 with a short reception.

All talks will be delivered in Aula Naranja.