Thursday, March 7
6:30 -- 9:00 PM: Check in at the Millennium Hotel
Friday, March 8
8:30 -- 9:00 AM: Continental breakfast at NIST
9:00 -- 10:30 AM: SQUBITS (Chair: Sae Woo Nam)
Michel Devoret, Yale, Observation of Ramsey fringes in a novel charge-flux qubit
John Martinis, NIST Boulder, Rabi oscillations in large-area Josephson junctions
Jon Dowling, JPL, Quantum logic gates based on Coulomb blockade devices
10:30 -- 11:00 AM: Coffee break
11:00 AM -- 12:30 PM: Macro-ensembles, Nano-fabrication, and Femto-pulses (Chair: Richard Hughes)
Ike Chuang, MIT, Experimental implementation of Shor's algorithm with NMR
Michael Roukes, Cal Tech, Nanomechanical systems towards quantum measurements
Henry Kapteyn, Univ. Colorado, Coherent control of quantum systems using shaped light pulses
12:30 -- 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 -- 3:30 PM: Trapped Charged Particles (Chair: Dana Berkeland)
John Goodkind, UCSD, Status of device development for electrons on helium
Rainer Blatt, Innsbruck, Towards quantum information processing with trapped Ca+ ions
Brian DeMarco, NIST Boulder, Trapped-ion quantum-state processing experiments at NIST
3:30 -- 4:00 PM: Snack break
4:00 -- 5:30 PM: Poster previews (Chair: Ivan Deutsch)
6:00 -- 7:30 PM: Poster session at Millennium Hotel
Saturday, March 9
8:30 -- 9:00 AM: Continental breakfast at NIST
9:00 -- 10:30 AM: Quantum Algorithms, Information, and Error Correction (I) (Chair: Colin Williams)
Julia Kempe, UC Berkeley, Encoded universality -- an overview
Andrew Doherty, Cal Tech, Distinguishing separable and entangled states
Salman Habib, LANL, Quantum conditional dynamics applications to feedback control and the quantum-classical transition
10:30 -- 11:00 AM: Coffee break
11:00 AM -- 12:30 PM: Quantum Algorithms, Information, and Error Correction (II) (Chair: Carl Caves)
Ivan Deutsch, Univ. New Mexico, Physical resource requirements for scalable quantum computation
Andrew Landahl, Cal Tech, Continuous-time quantum error correction
Lu Ming Duan, Cal Tech, Physical implementation of quantum repeaters and many-party entanglement with laser manipulation of atomic ensembles
12:30 -- 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 -- 3:30 PM: Quantum Information Processing with Atoms (Chair: Mike Holzscheiter)
Poul Jessen, Univ. Arizona, Continuous measurement and feedback on atomic motion in optical traps
Carl Williams, NIST Gaithersburg, Quantum computing with neutral atoms
Dan Stamper-Kurn, UC Berkeley, Toward deterministic cavity QED with magnetically trapped atomic clouds
3:30 -- 4:00 PM: Snack break
4:00 -- 5:30 PM: Special Session on BEC (Chair: Dave Wineland)
Carl Wieman, CU/JILA, Bose-Einstein condensates with adjustable interactions
Eric Cornell, CU/JILA, Highly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates
7:30 PM: Banquet at Millennium Hotel
Sunday, March 10
8:30 -- 9:00 AM: Continental breakfast at NIST
9:00 -- 10:30 AM: Condensed Matter (Chair: Daniel James)
Chris Hammel, LANL, Progress toward a silicon-based quantum computer
Mark Phillips, Univ. Oregon, Spin coherence and electromagnetically-induced transparency via exciton correlations
Hari Manoharan, Stanford, Manipulating spins at the spatial limit
10:30 -- 11:00 AM: Coffee break
11:00 AM -- 12 noon: Photons (Chair: Hideo Mabuchi)
Richard Hughes, LANL, Free-space quantum key distribution over 10 km
Aephraim Steinberg, Univ. Toronto, Nonlinear optics in the quantum limit
12 noon -- 2:00 PM: Lunch