Seminar Mathematical Optimization and Quantum Information Theory

Monday, May 8, 3:30 pm, Institute of Theoretical Physics
1. Introduction to quantum information theory (Gross)
2. Introduction to convex optimization (Vallentin)
3. Distribution of topics

List of topics

Some literature for the basics
1. John Watrous’s Lecture Notes (Theory of Quantum Information, Introduction to Quantum Computation)
2. John Watrous – Semidefinite Programming iin Quantum Information

Schedule for block seminar at Physikzentrum Bad Honnef

Monday (August 7)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Violation of Bell inequalities (Philipp Baaden, Paula Belzig)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Talk by Mateus Araujo
17:00 – 18:00 Talk by David de Laat
18:00 – 20:00 Dinner
20:00 – 21:00 Cleanup session

Tuesday (August 8)

08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30 Entanglement detection (Lukas Groß, Lukas Winkel)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Quantum steering (Arne Heimendahl, Felipe Montealegre)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Quantum state estimation via compressed sensing (Lea Kowsky, Tobias Schrader)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00 The quantum chromatic number (Felix Kirschner, Simon Nietz, Fabian Portner)
18:00 – 20:00 Dinner
20:00 – 21:00 Talk by Richad Kueng

Wednesday (August 9)

08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:45 Talk by Sander Gribling
09:45 – 10:30 Talk by David Gross
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Quantum speed-ups for semidefinite programming (Daniel Brosch, Markus Heinrich)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Financial support by QM2 and SFB TRR 191.