Third Feynman Festival

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

Friday, 25 August 2006

Friday Morning (Rm. 1201)

Chairs.. Brandt & Raizen
8:00..Registration and opening remarks
8:30.. Apostal Vourdas (University of Bradford) Fourier multiport devices
9:00..Suhail Zubairy (Texas A&M University) Quantum lithography with classical light
9:30.. Lov Grover (Bell Labs Lucent) Physical applications of quantum searching
10:00..Break
10:30.. Andrei Khrennikov (Vaxjo Univ.) Quantum mechanics as an asymptotic projection of statistical mechanics of classical fields
11:00.. Nathan L. Harshman (American Univ.) Tensor product structures and entanglement in particle
11:30..Martin Roetteler (NEC Labs America) Non-catastrophic encoders for quantum convolutional codes
12:00.. Robert MacFarland (Univ. of Maryland, LPS) Multi-valley physics of 2D electrons on silicon surfaces
12:30..Lunch

Friday Afternoon (Rm. 1201)

Chairs..Vourdas & Zubairy
13:30.. David Cory (MIT) Spin based test-beds for quantum information processing
14:00..Mark Raizen (Univ. of Texas, Austin) Experiments with 'particle in a box': Bose Einstein condensates, and Maxwell's demon
14:30.. Howard Brandt (Army Research Lab.) Renyi information gain on quantum key
15:00.. Janos Bergou (Hunter College) Optimum strategies for the discrimination and testing of operators
15:30..Break
16:00.. Mark Dykman (Michigan State Univ.) Switching via quantum activation, scaling, and quantum measurements
16:30.. Edo Waks (Stanford Univ.) Nanophotonic devices for quantum information processing
17:00..Mariyln E. Noz (New York Univ.) O(3,3)-like symmetries of coupled harmonic oscillators
17:45..Reception

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

Saturday, 26 August 2006

Saturday Morning (Rm. 1201)

Chairs..Perinnoti & Sica
8:00..Jason Ralph (Univ. of Liverpool) Purification protocols for solid state qubits
8:30.. Susana Huelga (Univ. of Hertfordshire) When cooler is not better: stochastic resonance phenomena in quantum many-body systems
9:00.. Jeremy Levy (Univ. of Pittsburgh) Designer quantum materials
9:30.. Otfried Guehne (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Improved entanglement detection
10:00..Break
10:30.. Anastasia Konstadopoulou (Univ. of Bradford) Entanglement, measurement and correlations in tri-partite systems
11:00.. Vladimir Korepin (SUNY Stony Brook) Quantum algorithm for partial search
11:30.. Gregg Jaeger (Boston University) Quantum codes
12:00.. Paul Benioff (Argonne National Laboratory) Fields of iterated quantum reference frames based on gauge transformations of rational string states
12:30.. Brahim Lamine (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie) Quantum decoherence and gravitational waves
13:00..Lunch

Saturday Afternoon, Session A (Rm. 1201)

Chairs.. Jaeger & Korepin
14:00.. Paolo Perinotti (Univ. of Pavia) On the impossibility of stretching a quantum spatial vector
14:30.. Jens Eisert (University of Potsdam) Entanglement in quantum many-body systems
15:00.. Martin Plenio (Imperial College) Quantum information and quantum many body systems
15:30..Break
16:00.. Louis Sica (Naval Research Lab) Models for the Bell correlation and their attributes
16:30.. Sheng Zhang (Queens College of CUNY) Fourier multiport devices
17:00.. Shantilal Goradia (Gravity Research Inst.) Gravity and nuclear force linked

Saturday Afternoon, Session B (1402)

Chairs..Low & Noz
14:00.. Andrew Beckwith (Fermilab) Does the formation of temperature dependence of axion walls help delineate a regime where the Wheeler de Witt equation holds?
14:30.. Alain Berard (University of Metz) From Feynman proof of Maxwell equations to noncommutative quantum mechanics
15:00.. Rafael Diaz (Univ. Central de Venezuela) Feynman-Jackson integrals
15:30..Break
16:00.. Semih Gulzari (Northeastern University) Fractal Feynman propagators
16:30.. Jack Uretsky (Argonne National Lab.) Feynman's divergent series
17:00.. Arun Pratap (Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda) Feynman's great law of nature

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

Sunday, 27 August 2006

Sunday Morning, Session A (Rm. 1201)

Chairs..Lopata & Hellberg
8:30.. Vadim Smelyanskiy (NASA Ames Research Center) Quantum annealing and quantum phase transition in satisfiability problem
9:00.. Raj Mohanty (Boston University) Realizing quantum nanomechanics
9:30.. Werner Vogel (Univ. of Rostock) Observable conditions for continuous variable entanglement
10:00.. Dana Berkeland (Los Alamos National Lab.) Quantum simulations in ion traps
11:30..Break
10:00.. Stephen Bullock (IDA Computer Sceinces) Generic n-qudit register initialization in O(d^n) gates
11:30.. Verne Jacobs (Naval Research Lab.) Liouville-space descriptions for intense-field coherent electromagnetic interactions
12:00.. Ronald Folman (Ben Gurion University) One-mirror Fabry-Perot and one-slit Young interferometry
12:30.. Yaakov S. Weinstein (MITRE) Generalized entanglement as a natural framework for exploring quantum chaos
13:00..Lunch

Sunday Morning, Session B (1402)

Chairs..Haven & D'Hooghe
8:30.. Stephen G. Low (HP Texas) Reciprocal relativity of noninertial frames: quantum mechanics
9:00.. Chary Rangacharyulu (Univ. of Saskachewan) Detailed balance and macroscopic world
9:30..Michael Steiner (Naval Research Lab.) General closed system dynamics
10:00.. Gary Bowman (Northern Arizona University) The classical limit and decoherence in Bohm's theory
10:30..Break
11:00.. Michael Cifone (Univ. of Maryland) Quantum to classical transition per the relational blockworld
11:30.. Dionisios Margatis (MIT) State transformation in quantum memory: impurity imposed by time limits
12.00.. Bill Poirier (Texas Tech University) Multipolar quantum trajectory methods
12:30.. Jeff Tollaksen (George Mason University) Weak values, pre- and post-selection, and contextuality
13:00..Lunch

Sunday Afternoon, Session A (Rm. 1201)

Chairs..Gurvitz & V. Jacobs
14:00.. Hellberg, C. Stephen (Naval Research Lab.) A scalable architecture for coherence-preserving qubits
14:30.. Dan Gammon (Naval Research Lab.) Quantum dots and quantum information
15:00.. Paul Lopata (Army Research Lab.) Sending sensitive messages in quantum packages
15:30..Break
16:00.. Sultan Catto (City Univ. of New York and Rockefeller University) Split Cayley algebra and its uses in QCD
16:30.. Alexander F. Mayer (Jay Pritzker Chair in Theoretical Physics) On the unification of the binding forces
17:00.. Raman Kumar Jha (Sikkim Manipal Inst. of Tech., India) Aspects of quantum manipulation
17:30.. Ajay Sharma (Fundamental Physics Society, India) The origin of generalized mass-energy equation and its applications in general physics and cosmology

Sunday Afternoon, Session B (Rm. 1402)

Chairs..Khrennikov & Rangacharyulu
14:00.. Olga Choustova (Vaxjo University) Quantum description of incomplete financial markets
14:30.. Emmanuel Haven (Univ. of Essex) Arbitrage and curvature
15:00.. Fred Kronz (Univ. of Texas) Non-monotonic probability theory for n-state quantum systems
15:30..Break
16:00.. Bart D'Hooghe (Free Univ. of Brussels) Macroscopic models for quantum systems and computers
16:30.. Shahriar S. Afshar (Rowan University) Measurement without measurement: Experimental violation of Complementarity and its aftermath
17:00.. Ghenadie Mardari (Rutgers University) Qualitative insights on fundamental mechanics
17:30.. William Kallfelz (Univ. of Maryland) Applications of the Finkelstein and Garakhani's finite quantum oscillator in quantum information theory

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

Monday, 28 August 2006

Monday Morning (Rm. 1201)

Chairs..Rendell & Wootters
8:00.. Viacheslav Belavkin (Univ. of Nottingham) Relative fidelities for quantum channels
8:30.. Navin Khaneja (Harvard University) Quantum gate design metric
9:00.. Robert Cooper (Univ. of Maryland) Quantum computing with Josephson junction phase qubits
9:30.. Joshua Bienfang (NIST) Free-space quantum cryptography in the H-alpha Fraunhofer window
10:00..Break
10:30.. Sam Lomonaco (UMBC) Topological quantum computing and the Jones polynomial
11:00.. Louis Kauffman (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) Knot theory and anyonic topological quantum computation
11:30..Kirill Shtengel (UC Riverside) Non-abelian anyons and topological quantum computation
12:00.. Margarita Man'ko (Lebedev Institute) Symplectic entropy
12:30..Lunch

Monday Afternoon (Rm. 1201)

Chairs..Bienfang & Lomonoco
13:30.. Joseph Eberly, Univ. of Rochester Entanglement sudden death in quantum optics: what is it, and what to do about it?
14:00.. William Wootters (Williams College) Discrete phase space and minimum uncertainty quantum states
14:30.. James Franson, (UMBC) Entangled photon holes
15:00.. Bryan Jacobs (Johns Hopkins Univ. APL) Single-photon sources using two-photon absorption and the quantum Zeno effect
15:30..Break
16:00.. Jean-Pierre Leburton (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana) Coulomb interaction and entanglement in coupled quantum dots: simulation and reality
16:30.. Muhammet A. Can (Clatech JPL) Quantum fluctuations: a characteristic trait of quantum entanglement
17:00.. Ronald Rendell (Naval Research Lab.) Characteristics of quantum measurement dynamics
17:30.. Austin Fowler (Univ. of Waterloo) Large-scale superconducting quantum computing: challenges and prospects
18:00.. Selim Shahriar (Northwestern University) Making a quantum internet using Schroedinger cats
19:00..Banquet (at Best-Western Maryland Inn)

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

Tuesday, 29 August 2006

Tuesday Morning (Rm. 1201)

Chairs..Can & Weinstein
8:00..Nicholas Cumming (Univ. of Maryland) Evolution of atom-field entanglement
8:30.. Salomon S. Mizrahi (Univ. Federal de Sao Carlos) Reversible computation, from bits to qubits and to the Schroedinger equation
9:00.. Vladimir S. Malinovsky, (MagiQ Technologies) Selective coherent one-qubit operations and coherent spectroscopy
9:30.. Yanhua Shih (UMBC) Can two-photon correlation of chaotic light be considered as statistical correlation of intensity fluctuations?
10:00..Break
10:30..Schmuel Gurvitz (Weizmann Institute) Quantum mechanical approach to decoherence due to random force
11:00.. Amr F. Fahmy (Harvard University) Systematic thermal-state NMR quantum computation
11:30.. Raimund Marx (Technical Univ. of Munich) Experimental demonstration of scalable NMR quantum computing
12:00..Martin Weitz (Univ. of Tuebingen) Stern-Gerlach experiment for slow light
12:30.. Victor Yakovenko (Univ. of Maryland) Statistical mechanics of money, income, and wealth
13:00..Farewell Lunch

Tuesday Afternoon (Rm. 1201)

Chairs..Anderson & Man'ko
14:00.. Dimitri A. Polyakov (American Univ. of Beirut) New discrete states in two-dimensional supergravity
14:30.. Wayne Witzel (Univ. of Maryland ) Quantum theory of decoherence in solid-state spin quantum computing architectures
15:00.. A. Lews Licht (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) Operators in non-commutative geometry
15:30.. Young S. Kim (Univ. of Maryland) Feynman and coupled harmonic oscillators
16:00..Closing Remarks, Future Plans