QNET Workshop 2006 / Qday III: Programme

In order to encourage discussion, the time period for each talk includes 10 or 15 minutes for questions. The invited talks are 1 hour + 15 minutes, and the contributed talks are 30 minutes + 10 minutes.

Here is the programme as a single-page PDF.

Monday 4th December

8.30 Registration; tea/coffee
9.00 Bob Coecke, University of Oxford, UK
Classical and quantum structures
Slides
9.40 Ellie D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Distributed leader election
10.20 Dan Browne, University of Oxford, UK
Quantum circuit depth
11.00 Break; tea/coffee
11.30 Invited lecture: Paulo Mateus
Security and Quantum Information Group, Institute of Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal
Exogenous quantum logics
12.45 Lunch (on site)
13.50 Peter Ryan, University of Newcastle, UK
Spooky voting at a distance
14.30 Elham Kashefi, University of Oxford, UK
Parallelizing quantum circuits
15.10 Break: tea/coffee
15.40 Nick Papanikolaou, University of Warwick, UK
Towards a model-checker for quantum stabilizer protocols
16.20 Pablo Arrighi, University of Grenoble / IMAG, France
Linear-algebraic lambda-calculus: higher order, encodings, confluence (joint work with Gilles Dowek)
Slides Paper
17.00 End
There are several pubs and bars in Ashton Lane and Byres Road (see maps), which might help to fill the interval before dinner.
19.00 Dinner at Gong Restaurant, 17 Vinicombe Street

Tuesday 5th December

8.30 Tea/coffee
9.00 Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford, UK
Axiomatics of (no-)cloning and (no-)deleting
9.40 Bill Edwards, University of Oxford, UK
Adding causal structure to categorical QM
10.20 Dmitri Akatov, University of Oxford, UK
Categorical modelling of quantum protocols
11.00 Break; tea/coffee
11.30 Invited lecture: Stephen Barnett
Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, UK.
The physics of quantum information processing
Slides
12.45 Lunch (on site)
13.45 Business meeting
14.00 Peter Hines, University of York, UK
Temperley-Lieb algebras as two-way automata
14.40 Hynek Mlnarik, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Semantics of the LanQ programming language
15.20 Thorsten Altenkirch, University of Nottingham, UK
The quantum IO monad in Haskell
16.00 End: tea/coffee