Workshop Program
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All talks will be taking place in Lecture Theatre B. Enter the Computer Science Department via the e-Research Centre entrance on Keble road, and you will be directed where to go.

This is a preliminary program. The schedule of speakers may change before the workshop. If you have been scheduled on a day you cannot attend, please contact the organisers at qisw@cs.ox.ac.uk.

Monday, 26 March »

• Session 1 » 11:30 – 13:00
  • Elham Kashefi - Unconditionally Verifiable Blind Computation
  • Dan Browne
• Session 2 » 14:30 – 16:00
  • Matthew Hoban - Non-locality Masquerading as Circuitry
  • Terry Rudolph
• Session 3 » 16:45 – 19:00
  • Nicholas Cerf - Proving that Vacuum is a Minimum-Disorder State using Majorization Theory
  • Jamie Vicary - A 2-Categorical Formalism for Quantum Information [slides]
  • Bob Coecke - Graphical and Automated Reasoning About Quantum Algorithms and Protocols [slides]

Tuesday, 27 March »

• Session 1 » 9:30 – 11:00
  • Ian Walmsley
  • Myungshik Kim
• Session 2 » 11:30 – 13:00
  • Ross Duncan - Verifying MBQC Programs in the ZX-calculus
  • Simon Perdrix - Quantum Secret Sharing
• Session 3 » 14:30 – 16:00
  • Aleks Kissinger - Strongly Complementary Observables and Mermin-style Nonlocality Theorems
  • Antonio Acin - Local Orthogonality: A Multipartite Principle for Correlations [slides]
• Session 4 » 16:45 – 19:00
  • Caslav Brukner - Quantum Information Meets Gravity
  • Simon Benjamin - "Simon's Mystery Talk" (Leggett Garg inequalities/fault-tolerent quantum networks) [slides]
  • Sandu Popescu

Wednesday, 28 March »

• Session 1 » 9:30 – 11:00
  • Pablo Arrighi - The Physical Church-Turing Thesis and the Principles of Quantum Theory
  • Martin Plenio
• Session 2 » 11:30 – 13:00
  • Philip Walther - Photonic Quantum Simulations and Quantum Cloud Computing
  • Christoph Marquardt - Versatile Sources of Light for Quantum Information Processing
• Session 3 » 14:30 – 16:00
  • Eugene Polzik
  • Tom Reinecke - Optical Quantum Dots for Quantum Information [slides]
• Session 4 » 16:30 – 18:00
  • Richard George
  • Keye Martin - Retractive Groups

Thursday, 29 March »

• Session 1 » 9:30 – 11:00
  • Samson Abramsky - A Unifying Principle for Bell Inequalities
  • Jon Barrett - What is the quantum state? [slides]
• Session 2 » 11:30 – 13:00
  • Mauro D'Ariano - Physics from Informational Principles
  • Peter Hines - Quantum Circuits for Coherent Conditional Iteration [slides]
• Session 3 » 14:30 – 16:00
  • Serge Massar - Random Number Generation Certified by Bell's Theorem
  • Markus Hennrich - Quantum Information and Controlled Decoherence with Trapped Ions
• Session 4 » 16:45 – 19:00
  • Jens Eisert - Timing Dissipation: New Perspectives for Dissipative Quantum Information Processing
  • Winfried Hensinger - Scalable Ion Quantum Technology
  • Leonardo DiCarlo

Friday, 30 March »

• Session 1 » 9:30 – 11:00
  • Ilja Gerhardt
  • Andreas Wallraff - Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits [slides]
• Session 2 » 11:30 – 13:00
  • Stephen Brierley - A Remarkable Representation of the Clifford Group [slides]
  • Markus Aspelmeyer