Joint Workshop in PARIS September 2008
Date: 25-26 September 2008

The first Workshop of the JST-CNRS "Quantum Computation: Theory and Feasibility" project will be held in Paris on September 25-26 at the Institute Henri Poincare. Our project is collaboration between Japanese and French research groups, to investigate the fundamental abilities of Quantum Computation and the feasibility of large-scale Quantum Information Processing.

The Workshop is co-organized by the Group de Travail "Informatique Quantique", whose goal is to enhance the collaboration between Computer Scientists in France who work in the area of quantum information and computation (http://www.lri.fr/quantum/gt-iq/index.html).

The program consists mostly of invited presentations, however there is a number of slots for contributed talks and posters. Please contact Iordanis Kerenidis (jkeren(at)lri.fr) in order to submit your work for presentation.

Registration
There are no registration fees. In order to facilitate the better organization, please email Iordanis Kerenidis (jkeren(at)lri.fr) if you are planning to attend.

TIME TABLE

Thursday
TimeSpeakerTitle
09:30-09:50Coffee/snacks
09:50-10:00Welcome
10:00-10:45Kae Nemoto
10:45-11:30Julia Kempe "New Upper Bounds on the Noise Threshold for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing "
11:30-12:15Simon Devitt"Topological optical Cluster state computation with the photonic module."
12:15-14:00LUNCH
14:00-14:45Kazuo Iwama"Quantum Counterfeit Coin Problems"
14:45-15:30Rudy RAYMOND Harry Putra"Quantum Query Complexity of Boolean Functions with Small On-Set"
15:30-16:00Frederic Prost"A logical analysis of entanglement and separability in quantum higher-order functions."
16:00-16:30Coffee
16:30-17:00Marc Kaplan"the communication complexity of non-signaling distributions."
17:00-17:45Ronald de Wolf"Quantum computing and Locally Decodable Codes"


Friday
TimeSpeakerTitle
09:30-10:00Coffee/snacks
10:00-10:45Damian Markham"Overview of Measurement Based Quantum Information Processing"
10:45-11:30Mehdi Mhalla"Finding optimal flows efficiently"
11:30-12:15Yu Tanaka"Authorized quantum computation"
12:15-14:00LUNCH
14:00-14:45Eleni Diamanti"Security and implementation of continuous variable quantum key distribution systems"
14:45-15:30Takeshi Koshiba"On quantum oblivious transfer"
15:30-16:00Minato Hagiwara"Relations between Orthogonality and Linear Independence"
16:00-16:30Coffee
16:30-17:00Atushi Tanaka"Adiabatic quantum computation along Cheon's holonomies"
17:00-17:45Howard Barnum"Quantum simulated annealing "

>>PROGRAM PAGE(includes abstracts) .

Practical Information
Date: 25-26 September 2008
Time: 9h - 18h
Place: Institut Henri Poincare (IHP), amphitheater Darboux, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 Paris
Contact: Iordanis Kerenidis (jkeren@lri.fr)

Directions to IHP can be found here

List of hotels in the area
Hotel Cluny Sorbonne 8 rue Victor Cousin (5e) 01 43 54 66 66; Web site
Hotel des 3 colleges 16 rue Cujas (5e) 01 43 54 67 30; Web site
Hotel de la Sorbonne 6 rue Victor Cousin (5e) 01 43 54 58 08 FAX 01 40 51 05 18 Web site
Les Jardins du Luxembourg 5 impasse Royer-Collard (5e) 01 40 46 08 88 FAX 01 40 46 02 28 124
Hotel Dacia-Luxembourg 41 Bd Saint-Michel (5e) 01 53 10 27 77; Web site
Hotel Cardinal (Comfort Inn) 20 rue Pascal (RER Port-Royal) 01 47 07 41 92
Port Royal Hotel 8 Bd de Port-Royal 01 43 31 70 06, Fax 01 43 31 33 67

Food suggestions near IHP
Le Café de la Nouvelle Mairie 19, rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques near the Panthéon. A lovely café that serves lunch
(generous slalad plates). Nice Parisian style café on a charming little square, with a good atmosphere.

Le Soufflot, 16, rue Soufflot, just across from the Pantheon. The menu consists of salads, sandwiches, coffee and other drinks.

Le Pré Verre 8, rue Thénard, between Métros Cluny-sorbonne and Maubert Mutualité. A good place for a nice dinner.
The food here is French with a twist of spices, very good without being too pretentious. Expect about 40 Euro per person
including wine.

Académie de la Bière 88-bis Boulevard De Port-Royal near RER Port-Royal. A very laid back place, serving light meals
(moules frites and croque monsieur). This is the best place to have Belgian and other beers in Paris. They have
Westmalle Dubbel on tap.

Boulangerie Jean-Pierre Cosnier, 8 rue Gay-Lussac, near RER Luxembourg, makes good Parisian style sandwiches.

Man'Ouché 21 rue Saint-Jacques. A small take-out place that makes good Lebanese mannaeesh, a flat bread best with
zaatar (a mixture made of an herb related to marjoram and oregano, sesame and sumac) and labne (yogurt cheese).

Christian Constant 37 rue d'Assas, near the Luxembourg gardens makes really good chocolate.

Le Boulanger de Monge 123 rue Monge near Censier Daubenton has some of the best bread in Paris.

Berthillon, 31rue Saint Louis en l'Ile on the island of Saint-Louis is the reference when it comes to ice cream in Paris.


Last updated 25th September 2008.