NITheP Workshop

Relativistic Quantum Information

Program



Monday, March 7, 2011
09:45—10:00 Prof Francesco Petruccione (NITheP-KZN) Welcome Address
10:00—11:00 Prof Gerard Milburn (University of Queensland) Estimating the metric in curved spacetime with quantum fields
Tea and Coffee
Discussion
13:00
Lunch
14:30—15:30 Dr Kamil Bradler (McGill University) Unruh effect from the quantum Shannon theory point of view
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
10:00—11:00 Prof Michael Duff (Imperial College) Black holes and qubits
Tea and Coffee
Discussion
13:00
Lunch
14:30—15:30 Dr Nicolas Menicucci (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) Relationalism and the Thermal Time Hypothesis: clocks and the emergence of a metric notion of time
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
10:00—11:00 Prof Lajos Diosi (Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics) Continuous wave function collapse in QED? — 5 years later
Tea and Coffee
Discussion
13:00
Lunch
Excursion to the Tala Game Reserve
Thursday, March 10, 2011
10:00—11:00 Dr Jason Doukas (Kyoto University) The Unruh effect as an open system
Tea and Coffee
Discussion
13:00
Lunch
14:30—15:30 Prof Ivette Fuentes (University of Nottingham) Redistribution of particle and anti-particle entanglement in non-inertial frames
Friday, March 11, 2011
10:00—11:00 Dr Andrzej Dragan (University of Nottingham) Making life relativistically easy with single-mode detectors
Tea and Coffee
Discussion
13:00
Lunch