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Schedule for: 19w5146 - Quantum Walks and Information Tasks

Beginning on Sunday, April 21 and ending Friday April 26, 2019

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, April 21
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, April 22
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:45 Igor Jex: Photons walking the line (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:15 - 11:00 Felix Thiel: The quantum first detection problem (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:45 Carlos Lardizabal: Mean hitting times of open quantum walks in terms of generalized inverses (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
14:30 - 15:00 Group Photo and Coffee Break (TCPL 201 and TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:45 Tom Bannink: Power series in stochastic processes (TCPL 201)
15:45 - 17:30 Informal discussions (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, April 23
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:45 Reinhard Werner: Quantum walks and coarse structure (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:15 - 11:00 Tobias Geib: Quantum walks in external gauge fields (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:45 Tamás Kiss: Measurement induced complex chaos in quantum protocols (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 13:45 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:45 - 14:30 Janos Asboth: Detecting topological invariants of quantum walks via weak measurements and losses (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:45 David Feder: Detecting two-dimensional topological states using quantum walks (TCPL 201)
15:45 - 17:30 Informal discussions (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, April 24
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:45 Andris Ambainis: Quadratic speedup for finding marked vertices by quantum walks (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:15 - 11:00 Jérémie Roland: Finding a marked node on any graph by continuous time quantum walk (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:45 Debbie Leung: Embezzlement-based nonlocal game (Bell inequality) that cannot be won (violated) optimally with finite amount of entanglement (i.e., proving the set of quantum correlations is not closed using embezzlement) (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 13:45 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:45 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, April 25
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:45 Gabriel Coutinho: Open problems in continuous-time quantum walks (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:15 - 11:00 Krystal Guo: Average mixing matrix of quantum walks (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:45 Xiaohong Zhang: Fractional revival of threshold graphs under Laplacian dynamics (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 13:45 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:45 - 14:30 Hanmeng Zhan: Quantum walks, orthogonal polynomials, and spectral graph theory (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:45 Hiroshi Miki: Multivariate Krawtchouk polynomials and quantum walks on the associated graphs (TCPL 201)
15:45 - 17:30 Informal discussions (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, April 26
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:45 Francisco Alberto Grunbaum: Time-band limiting: searching for a miracle, armed with a new motivation (TCPL 201)
09:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:15 - 11:00 Albert Werner: Tensor network representations from the geometry of entangled states (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:45 Informal discussions (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:45 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)