QIPC2 II 2013

Second Announcement
Pumula Beach Hotel, Umzumbe, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Workshop on Quantum Information Processing, Computing and Control

Dates

25 30 November 2013

Location Pumula Beach Hotel, KwaZulu-Natal, Umzumbe, South Africa Program School on Quantum Optics, International Speakers, Presentations by South African community of researchers in QIPCC Funding Available for students please apply via website Invited Speakers Prof. Luis Orozco (Joint Quantum Institute, Maryland, USA) Dr. Valentyn Prokhorenko (Department of Chemistry and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto) Prof. Dr. Rienk van Grondelle (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Prof. Andreas Buchtleiner (Deparment of Mathematics and Physics, University of Freiburg) Mag. Dr. Rupert Ursin (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences) Local Organizing Committee Prof. Francesco Petruccione, Prof. Heinrich Schwoerer, Dr. Hermann Uys Registration Closes 18 October 2013, Abstract submission closes 1 October 2013 Conference Website: http://quantum.ukzn.ac.za/events/quantum-information-processing-communication-and-control-2

Preliminary Programme
Workshop on Quantum Information Processing, Computing and Control 2013
Monday 25 Nov
08:30 - 09:20 Attendee Arrivals

Tuesday 26 Nov
(School session) Luis Orozco Quantum correlations of intensity and field in CQED (School session) Andreas Buchleitner Introduction to quantum processes in biosystems Tea Invited Speaker Talk Ultrafast Physics

Wednesday 27 Nov
(School session) Luis Orozco Conditional dynamics in CQED

Thursday 28 Nov
(School session) Robert Ursin Towards a loophole-free Bell experiment Invited Speaker Talk Luis Orozco - Quantum feedback in cavity QED

Friday 29 Nov
Invited Speaker Talk Rupert Ursin Free space quantum communication and space

09:30 - 10:20 Attendee Arrivals

(School session) Rienk van Grondelle Introduction to light harvesting

Open quantum systems

10:20-10:50

Tea

Tea Invited Speaker Talk Andreas Buchleitner: Quantum processes in biosystems

Tea

Tea Invited Speaker Talk Rienk van Grondelle The quantum design of Photosynthesis

10:50-11:40

Attendee Arrivals

Quantum Communication

11:45 - 12:30

Attendee Arrivals

Ultra-fast physics

Quantum measurement

Quantum Communication

Entanglement

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch Parallel session (1) Biophysics/Quantum Technology/Energy Meeting (2) Miscellaneous talks

14:00 - 14:50

(School session) Luis Orozco Semi-classical cavity QED

Ultra-fast physics

Quantum in biosystems

Quantum Communication

14:50 - 15:40

(School session) Valentyn Prokhorenko Introduction to ultrafast physics

Open quantum systems

Quantum in biosystems

Strongly correlated systems

Parallel session (1) Biophysics/Quantum Technology/Energy Meeting (2) Miscellaneous talks

15:40-16:10 16:10-17:00 17:00 - 18:00 18:30 - 20:00

Tea Ultra-fast physics

Tea Cold atoms Poster Session

Tea Cold atoms Poster Session Dinner

Tea Open quantum systems Poster Session Dinner

Tea Closing discussion

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner