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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting

• Northeastern University, Boston, MA
• April 21-22, 2018 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1139

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Special Session on Mathematical Perspectives in Quantum Information Theory

• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Perspectives in Quantum Information Theory, I
  420, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Christopher King, Northeastern University c.king@northeastern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A nonlocal game that cannot be played optimally using a finite amount of entanglement.
    Zhengfeng Ji, University of Technology Sydney
    Debbie Leung*, University of Waterloo
    Thomas Vidick, Caltech
    (1139-81-218)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Classical Homomorphic Encryption for Quantum Circuits.
    Urmila Mahadev*, UC Berkeley
    (1139-68-105)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Low-degree testing for quantum states.
    Anand Natarajan*, MIT
    Thomas Vidick, California Institute of Technology
    (1139-68-301)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Classical Lower Bounds from Quantum Upper Bounds.
    Shalev Ben-David*, University of Maryland
    Adam Bouland, University of California, Berkeley
    Ankit Garg, Microsoft Research
    Robin Kothari, Microsoft Research
    (1139-81-592)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Symmetric Informationally Complete Measurements Identify the Essential Difference between Classical and Quantum.
    John B. DeBrota*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Christopher A. Fuchs, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Blake C. Stacey, University of Massachusetts Boston
    (1139-81-628)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the existence of symmetric quantum measurements.
    Jon Yard*, University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute
    (1139-81-701)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Perspectives in Quantum Information Theory, II
  420, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Christopher King, Northeastern University c.king@northeastern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quantum states cannot be transmitted efficiently classically.
    Ashley Montanaro*, University of Bristol
    (1139-68-345)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exploiting wave function symmetries in quantum simulation.
    James D Whitfield*, Dartmouth College
    Sahil Gulania, University of Southern California
    (1139-81-426)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantum Algorithms for Connectivity: Applications and Analysis.
    Shelby Kimmel*, Middlebury College
    Michael Jarret, Perimeter Institute
    Stacey Jeffery, Qusoft, CWI
    Alvaro Piedrafita, Qusoft, CWI
    (1139-81-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximate unitary $t$-designs by short random quantum circuits using nearest-neighbor and long-range gates.
    Aram W. Harrow, MIT
    Saeed Mehraban*, MIT
    (1139-81-536)
• Sunday April 22, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Perspectives in Quantum Information Theory, III
  420, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Christopher King, Northeastern University c.king@northeastern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quantum Error Correction Dualities.
    Isaac Hyun Kim*, Stanford University
    (1139-81-228)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Local state discrimination and transformation in multipartite systems.
    Michael Nathanson*, Saint Mary's College of California
    (1139-81-333)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Optimized quantum $f$-divergences and data processing.
    Mark M. Wilde*, Louisiana State University
    (1139-81-312)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Using local additivity to find examples of superadditivity of classical capacity of qubit channels.
    Mary Beth Ruskai*, University of Vermont
    (1139-81-369)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Simple tricks to squeeze more out of your noisy quantum device.
    Kristan Temme*, IBM Research
    Sergey Bravyi, IBM Research
    Jay M Gambetta, IBM Research
    (1139-81-368)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Advances and challenges in Markovian quantum state stabilization under resource constraints.
    Lorenza Viola*, Dartmouth College
    (1139-93-305)
• Sunday April 22, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Perspectives in Quantum Information Theory, VI
  420, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Christopher King, Northeastern University c.king@northeastern.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Applications of Free Probability Theory to Quantum Many-Body Systems.
    Ramis Movassagh*, IBM Research, MIT-IBM A.I. Lab, Cambridge MA 02142
    (1139-81-434)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stat mech models for any stabilizer code and Pauli channel.
    Chris Chubb, University of Sydney
    Steven Flammia*, University of Sydney
    (1139-81-307)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Polynomial-time classical simulation of quantum ferromagnets.
    Sergey Bravyi*, IBM Research
    David Gosset, IBM Research
    (1139-81-375)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The complexity of distributions.
    Emanuele Viola*, NEU
    (1139-68-139)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Localizable Mutual Information: Tensor Networks meets Dynamical Systems.
    Fernando Brandao*, Pasadena
    (1139-81-502)

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