From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5670 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Coecke Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: QICS School: Foundational Structures in Quantum Comp & Inf, May 24-28, Oxford (followed by Quantum Physics and Logic workshop) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:07:15 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: Reply-To: Bob Coecke NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269721057 1695 80.91.229.12 (27 Mar 2010 20:17:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:17:37 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sat Mar 27 21:17:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvcRn-0002N9-KP for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:17:31 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NvbrA-0005uY-IF for categories-list@mta.ca; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:39:40 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5670 Archived-At: Spring School that marks the end of an EU FP6 FET STREP on: Foundational Structures in Quantum Computation and Information May 24-28, 2010, Oxford University, UK http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Bob.Coecke/QICS_School.html It consists on extended tutorials on the main research strands within QICS, namely: * Structures and methods for measurement-based quantum computation * Categorical semantics, logics, diagrammatic methods * Classical-quantum interaction and information flow * Quantum automata, machines, calculi Topics that will be covered include: * measurement-based quantum computing (MBQC); properties of graph states; MBQC and condensed matter physics; blind quantum computation; determinism in MBQC; measurement-based classical computation and non-locality; * monoidal categories, Frobenius algebras, and their graphical calculus; (co)algebra of complementary observables and multipartite quantum entanglement, and applications to MBQC; phase groups and non-locality; * classical simulation of quantum circuits; categorical topological quantum computation; graphical calculus for measurements and channels; generalized probabilistic theories; convex operational models and non-locality; * quantum cellular automata (QCA); QCAs and causality; higher types in quantum computing; quantum logics and quantum machines; colagebraic methods; Confirmed lecturers include (more to be announced closer to date): Samson Abramsky (Oxford), Pablo Arrighi (Grenoble), Howard Barnum (Perimeter), Jonathan Barrett (Bristol, TBC), Dan Browne (UCL - London), Bob Coecke (Oxford), Ross Duncan (Oxford), Joe Fitzsimons (Oxford), Akimasa Miyake (Perimeter), Prakash Panangaden (McGill), Simon Perdrix (Grenoble), Peter Selinger (Dalhousie), Maarten van den Nest (Max-Planck, TBC), Reinhard F. Werner (Hannover) If you are interested in attending the QICS School please write Ross Duncan . Please feel free to forward this message to your group or on relevant local mailing lists. --------- Satellite workshop: Quantum Physics and Logic, May 29-30. http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Bob.Coecke/QPL_10.html Invited speakers: - John Baez (UCR & Singapore) - Louis Crane (Kansas State) - Benjamin Schumacher (Kenyon College) PC chairs: - Bob Coecke (Oxford) - Prakash Panangaden (McGill) - Peter Selinger (Dalhousie) [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]