Workshops

Spring 2020

Quantum Protocols: Testing & Quantum PCPs

Mar 30, 2020 to Apr 2, 2020

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The workshop is being live streamed on this page. To participate fully in the workshop (with the capacity to ask questions), join the Zoom webinar.

All talk times are in Pacific Time.

Monday, March 30th, 2020
8:50 am – 9:00 am		Welcome Remarks
9:00 am – 10:00 am		Learning Many-Body Quantum Systems From Local Measurements Itai Arad (Technion)
10:00 am – 10:15 am		Break
10:15 am – 11:15 am		A General Introduction to Quantum Tomography -- and a Specialized Report on Property Testing Under Clifford Symmetry David Gross (University of Cologne)
11:15 am – 11:30 am		Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm		Predicting Many Properties of a Quantum System from Very Few Measurements Richard Kueng (Caltech)
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm		Computational Pseudorandomness and Constraints on the Ads/Cft Duality A dam Bouland (UC Berkeley)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
8:50 am – 9:00 am		Welcome Remarks
9:00 am – 10:00 am		Non-Local Binary Games With Noisy Epr States Are Decidable Penghui Yao (Nanjijng University)
10:00 am – 10:15 am		Break
10:15 am – 11:15 am		Self-Testing as an Approach to Certifying Quantum Systems Andrea Coladangelo (Caltech)
11:15 am – 11:30 am		Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm		MIP* = RE Part 1: The Quantum Low-Degree Test Anand Natarajan (Caltech)

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
11:35 am – 11:45 am		Welcome Remarks
11:45 am – 12:45 pm		Quantum PCPs Meet Derandomization Alex Bredariol Grilo (CWI & QuSoft)
12:45 pm – 1:00 pm		Break
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm		The Algebraic Side of MIP* = RE William Slofstra (University of Waterloo)
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm		Break
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm		MIP* = RE Part 2: PCPs and Introspection John Wright (Caltech)
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm		MIP* = RE: Putting Everything Together Zhengfeng Ji (University of Technology Sydney)

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
11:35 am – 11:45 am		Welcome Remarks
11:45 am – 12:45 pm		Cross-Platform Verification of Intermediate Scale Quantum Devices with Randomized Measurements Andreas Elben (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm		Cycle Benchmarking: The New Paradigm for Assessing All Relevant Errors and Error Correlations Under Specific Quantum Operation on Large-Scale Quantum Computers Joseph Emerson (University of Waterloo)
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm		Break
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm		Not All Benchmarks Are Created Equal Robin Blume-Kohout (Sandia National Labs)
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm		Efficient Learning of Pauli Channels Steve Flammia (University of Sydney)