Program

Monday 26th October – Focus Session: Discord & Macroscopicity

9:30 – 10:00 Registration – Lobby of Room 315, FIT Building.
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 Vlatko Vedral – Welcome and introductory talk
11:30 – 12:30 Nana Liu – Power of one qumode (Talk + Discussion)
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Ma Jia Jun – Linking quantum coherence consumption to creation of quantum correlations. (Talk + Discussion)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Benjamin Yadin – A general framework for quantum macroscopicity in terms of coherence (Talk + Discussion)
17:00 – 18:00 Panel discussion

Tuesday 27th October

8:45 – 10:00 Panel discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 Wonmin Son – TBA
11:30 – 12:30 Felix Tennie – Physical Relevance of Generalised Pauli Constraints (Talk + Discussion)
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Kihwan Kim – UNOT gate and modular quantum computation in a trapped ion system (Talk + Discussion)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Thomas Elliot – Engineering Quantum Many-Body Systems with Quantum
Light (Talk + Discussion)
17:00 – 18:00 Park Jung Jun – Szilard Engines with Quantum Memory (Talk + Discussion)

Wednesday 28th October

8:45 – 10:00 Panel discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:00 – 10:40 Workshop Photo – FIT Main Lobby
10:40 – 11:40 Sun Luyan – Superconducting Qubits at IIIS (Talk + Discussion)
11:40 – 12:40 Man Hong Yung – Single-Shot Detection Limits of Quantum Illumination
12:40 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 18:00 Panel discussion

Thursday 29th October

8:45 – 10:00 Panel discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 Oscar Dahlsten – ‘Deriving single-shot worst-case work equality from Crooks theorem’ (Talk + Discussion)
11:30 – 12:30 Felix Binder – Quantum speed limits and powerful quantum battery charging (Talk + Discussion)
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Fan Heng – TBA
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Xiao Yuan – Replicating the Effects of Time Travel with Closed Timelike Curves (Talk + Discussion)
17:00 – 18:00 Panel discussion

Friday 30th October – Focus Session: Statistical Complexity

8:45 – 10:00 Panel discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 Mile Gu – Occam’s Quantum Razor: Quantizing Statistical Complexity (Tutorial)
11:30 – 12:30 Suen Whei Yeap – Quantifying Complexity of the 1D Spin System (Talk + Discussion)
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Andrew Garner – When is simpler thermodynamically better? (Talk + Discussion)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Jayne Thompson – Simplifying input-output processes with quantum mechanics. (Talk + Discussion)
17:00 – 18:00 Panel discussion
18:00 – 21:00 Conference dinner