International School and Conference on Quantum Information

  • ORGANIZERS

    Pankaj Agrawal, IOP, Arun K. Pati, IOP

    DATE

    04 - 12 Mar 2008

    VENUE

    Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar

Quantum Information science has emerged as one of the frontier areas of research in recent years where scientists all over the world are trying to harness the power of information processing using laws of quantum mechanics. In last twenty years or so this field has grown tremendously because of its inter disciplinary character.

The school and conference aim at covering all areas in Quantum Information Science. We plan to have introductory lectures in the school followed by invited talks in the conference on advanced research topics that include theoretical aspects of Quantum computing, and Experimental activities, Quantum communication, Quantum information processing protocols and related issues. Invited talks will be delivered by world class experts from India and abroad in the field. All the researchers interested in Quantum Information Science can participate. In addition to invited talks we can have oral and poster presentations by young researchers.

The ISCQI-2008 will be held at Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Orissa from March 4th-12th, 2008. The school will be from March 4th to 7th and the conference will be during March 9th to 12th. There will be a one day break on March 8th for local sightseeing. Interested participants may please contact organisers.

There is no registration fees for ISCQI. All the participants will be provided local hospitality during their stay. We encourage all the participants to get the travel support from their home Institutions. However, in case of extreme difficulties we may be able to provide limited travel support.

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Invited Speakers for the SCHOOL

Following is the list of lecturers. There will be four or five lectures every day of one-and-half hour duration each.

# SPEAKERS INSTITUTION TOPIC
1 Adan Cabello Univ. de Sevilla, Spain Bell Inequalities (2 lectures)
2 Sibasish Ghosh IMSc, Chennai, India Quantum Information (3 lectures)
3 Jozef Gruska Czech Rep. Quantum Computing (5 lectures)
4 Guru Prasad Kar ISI, Kolkata, India Quantum Communication and Cryptography (3 lectures)
5 Sandu Popescu Univ. of Bristol, UK Quantum Entanglement (3 lectures)
6 M. Sacchi Univ. of Pavia, Italy Discrimination of States (2 lectures)
7 D. Sarkar Univ. of Kolkata, India Quantum Entanglement – Fundamental Aspects (1 lecture)

Invited Speakers for the CONFERENCE

The list of invited speakers who have accepted the invitation so far is as follows. This list will be updated periodically.

# SPEAKERS INSTITUTION
1 S. Anwar LUMS, Pakistan
2 Sougato Bose UC, UK
3 Caslav Brukner U. of Wein, Austria
4 Adan Cabello U. de Sevilla, Spain
5 S. Chadurvedi U. of Hyderabad, India
6 S. Ghosh IIMSc, Chennai, India
7 D. Goswami IIT, Kanpur, India
8 Jozef Gruska Czech Rep.
9 P. Joag Univ. of Pune, India
10 Guru Prasad Kar ISI, Kolkata, India
11 Anil Kumar IISc, India
12 A. S. Majumdar S. N. Bose Center, India
13 R. Nair CPFS, India
14 S. Pal IITKgp, India
15 P. Panigrahi PRL, India
16 T. P. Pareek HRI, India
17 A. Patel IISc, India
18 S. Popescu Univ. of Bristol, UK
19 Daowen Qiu Zhongshan Univ., China
20 A. K. Rajagopal GMU, USA
21 M. F. Sacchi Univ. of Pavia, Italy
22 Debasis Sarkar Calcutta U., India
23 Norbert Schuch MPI, Germany
24 R. Simon IIMSc, Chennai, India
25 R. Srikanth PPISR, India
26 C. S. Unnikrishnan TIFR, India
27 A. R. Ushadevi Bangalore U., India
28 S. Virmani Hertfordshire U., UK
29 Karol Zyczkowski Poland
  • S. Balakrishnan (NIT, Trichy)
  • Indrani Chattopadhyay (NSOU, Kolkata)
  • Chirag Dhara (TIFR, Mumbai)
  • Swagatika Das (KSE, Bhubaneswar)
  • Pijush K. Ghosh (Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan)
  • Aditya Girla (TIFR, Mumbai)
  • Sandeep Goyal (IMSc, Chennai)
  • N. L. Gupta (GC, Ajmer)
  • Ali Hasan (University of Pune, Pune)
  • J. Solomon Ivan (IMSc, Chennai)
  • Pradeep Kumar (IIT, Chennai)
  • Behzad Lari (University of Pune, Pune)
  • Daniele Magnani (University of Studies of Pavia, Italy)
  • Swarnali Majumder (NIAS, Bangalore)
  • Sandeep K. Maurya (IIT, Kanpur)
  • Bala Nagrajan (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad)
  • H. D. Parab (BARC, Mumbai)
  • Sushil Parida (IIT, Kharagpur)
  • K. C. Pati (NIT, Rourkela)
  • Soumya R. Patra (KSE, Bhubaneswar)
  • R. Prabhu (Bangalore University, Bangalore)
  • Ramij Rahaman (ISI, Kolkata)
  • Swapan Rana (ISI, Kolkata)
  • Biswajit Ransingh (NIT, Rourkela)
  • Masud R. Rashel (UIU, Bangladesh)
  • Umamaheswari Rajendran (Bangalore)
  • Ritabrata Sengupta (IIT, Chennai)
  • Raj Setia (DEI, Agra)
  • Namrata Shukla (University of Allahabad, Allahabad)
  • Prabhakar Vaidya (NIAS, Bangalore)
Conference (Only) Participants
  • Satyabrata Adhikari (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
  • Anindita Banerjee (JIIT, Noida)
  • Indranil Chakrabarty (HIT, Kolkata)
  • Manjula Gandhi (CIT, Coimbatore)
  • Manu Gupta (Accenture, Bangalore)
  • Preeti Parashar (ISI, Kolkata)
  • Pranaw Rungta (IISc, Bangalore)
  • Swarnamala Sirsi (University of Mysore, Bangalore)
  • Ashok Vudayagiri (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad)
Institute of Physics Participants
  • Pankaj Agrawal (IOP, Bhubaneswar)
  • Arun Jayannavar (IOP, Bhubaneswar)
  • Arun Pati (IOP, Bhubaneswar)
  • Biswajit Pradhan (IOP, Bhubaneswar)
  • Ajit M. Srivastava (IOP, Bhubaneswar)
  • Pradip K. Sahu (IOP, Bhubaneswar)

International Advisory Committee

  • D. Abbott (University of Adelaide, Australia)
  • G. S. Agarwal (Oklahoma State University, USA)
  • S. L. Braunstein (University of York, UK)
  • G. M. D’Ariano (University of Pavia, Italy)
  • M. Hayashi (University of Tohoku, Japan)
  • D. Home (Bose Institute, Kolkata)
  • Seth Lloyd (MIT, USA)
  • G. Milburn (University of Queensland, Australia)
  • M. Plenio (Imperial College, UK)
  • S. Popescu (University of Bristol, UK)
  • A. K. Rajagopal (George Mason University, USA)
  • S. M. Roy (JNU, New Delhi)
  • Barry Sanders (Director, Center for Quantum Information, Canada)
  • R. Simon (IMSc, Chennai)

National Organising Committee

  • P. Agrawal (IOP, Bhubaneswar)
  • Arvind (IIT, Chennai)
  • R. Ghosh (JNU, New Delhi)
  • D. Goswami (IIT, Kanpur)
  • G. P. Kar (ISI, Kolkata)
  • A. Kumar (IISc, Bangalore)
  • S. P. Pal (IIT, Kharagpur)
  • P. K. Panigrahi (PRL, Ahmedabad)
  • A. Patel (IISc, Bangalore)
  • A. K. Pati (IOP, Bhubaneswar)
  • R. Srikanth (PISR, Bangalore)
  • C. S. Unnikrishnan (TIFR, Mumbai)

Aim and Scope of the School

    The school will consist of five consecutive days of talks that cover the basics of quantum information science.

  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Cryptography
  • Quantum Error Correction
  • Experimental Implementations
  • Quantum Teleportation and Communication Protocols
  • Quantum Games

Aim and Scope of the Conference

    The conference will have several invited talks by experts from India and abroad. These talks will cover both theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum information science, including but not limited to the following topics:

  • Quantum Computation and Algorithms
  • Quantum Error-Correction and Decoherence
  • Quantum Cryptography
  • Quantum Information Theory
  • Quantum Entanglement
  • Non-locality and Bell Inequalities
  • Experimental Quantum Information

    • In addition to these, we can have invited talks in the area of Quantum Measurement, Geometric Quantum Computation, Continuous variable Quantum Information, Relativistic Quantum Information, Quantum Information Theoretic ideas in other areas like Black Hole physics and many more.

Local Information

Local Information

The school and the conference will take place in the campus of the Institute of Physics. The participants and some of the invited speakers would be accommodated on the campus. The rest will be staying at Hotel Suryansh. You would be informed about your place of stay.

Emergency Phone Numbers

In case of any problem that you may face on arrival and need to contact the organizers, you can do so using the following phone numbers.

Institute of Physics: 2301058, 2301823, 2301205
Bhubaneswar Code: 0674, India Code: 91

Name Office Extn. Home Mobile
Pankaj Agrawal 214 2301197 9937372473
Arun K. Pati 273 2301194 9861048134

Meals

The lunch and the dinner would be served in the institute campus. The place for the breakfast would depend on the accommodation. Those staying in the campus would be served breakfast on campus near the library. Those staying in the hotel would be served breakfast at the hotel.

Talks

For your talks, LCD projectors would be available. A laptop or a PC can be connected to these projectors. If you so choose, you can bring your own Laptop, or a talk can be loaded to a local Laptop or PC for display.

Computer Facilities

If you bring your own Laptop with a wireless access card, you can get access to the Internet easily. There will be areas available for wireless Internet connectivity. A number of PCs for Internet access and computation would also be available.

Travel Information

AIR
There are regular INDIAN AIRLINES, AIR DECCAN, and IndiGo flights connecting Bhubaneswar and major cities of India. One can also search at travel-portal such as Yatra.
Travellers from outside India can arrive at Delhi, Mumbai, or Kolkata and then take a connecting flight to Bhubaneswar.

RAIL
INDIAN RAILWAYS connect Bhubaneswar with most towns and cities of India.

ROADS
Bhubaneswar is located on the national highway NH5. This highway connects Kolkata and Chennai.