| SUNDAY |
| 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Quantum Algorithms |
| 7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion Leader: Peter Shor (MIT) |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Andrew Childs (University of Waterloo)
"Evaluating formulas with a quantum computer" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew U.)
"New Directions in Quantum Computation" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Quantum Information and Cosmology |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Discussion leader: Wojciech Zurek (Los Alamos National Labotatory) |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Patrick Hayden (McGill University)
"Black Holes as Mirrors" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Andrzej Grudka (Gdansk University of Technology)
"The problem of quantumness of states - connections with thermodynamics" |
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:50 am | Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute)
"Continuous vs. Discrete Oracles" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Atomic Systems |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion leader: Ivan Deutsch (University of New Mexico) |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Trey Porto (NIST/Gaithersburg)
"Coherent, global control of pairs of neutral atoms in a double-well optical lattice" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | David Weiss (Penn State University)
"Site-addressable 3D optical lattices for quantum computation" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Solid State Systems |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Discussion Leader: Robert Schoelkopf (Yale University) |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Charles Marcus (Harvard University)
"Spin Qubits in GaAs and Carbon Nanotubes" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Andrew Briggs (Oxford U.)
"Manipulation of spin qubits in molecular nanomaterials" |
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:50 am | John Clarke (UC Berkley)
"1/f Flux Noise in SQUIDs and Qubits: An Ongoing Saga" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Topological Quantum Computing |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion Leader: Sander Bais (U. Amsterdam) |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Michael Freedman (Microsoft)
"A surprising distinction between topological phases in two and three dimensions" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | Chetan Nayak (UCLA)
"Topological Quantum Computing and the Quantum Hall Effect" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Trapped Ions |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Discussion Leader: Emanuel Knill (NIST) |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | David Wineland (NIST/Boulder)
"Quantum information processing and quantum metrology with trapped ions" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Rainer Blatt (University of Innsbruck)
"Quantum Information Science with Trapped Ca+ Ions" |
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:50 am | Dzmitry Matsukevich (JQI / University of Maryland)
"Quantum Networks with Ions and Photons" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Atom-Photon Interface & Metrology using Entanglement |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion Leader: Eugene Polzik (Niels Bohr Inst.) |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Klaus Molmer (University of Aarhus)
"Ensemble encoding of quantum information" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | Michael Lukin (Harvard University)
"Spin qubits in diamond: new physics and applications" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Entanglement in Quantum Many Body Systems |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Discussion Leader: Hans Briegel (University of Innsbruck) |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics)
"Wuantum computing and state engineering via dissipation" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Matthew Hastings (Los Alamos National Laboratories)
"Entanglement and Dynamics in Quantum Systems Far From Equilibrium" |
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:50 am | Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck)
"Quantum Information with Driven Dissipative Quantum Optical Systems" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Photon Based Quantum Information Processing |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion Leader: Raymond Laflamme (University of Waterloo) |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Dirk Bouwmeester (UC Santa Barbara)
"Cavity QED with Charge-Tunable Quantum Dots" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | Gerhard Rempe (Max-Planck Insitute for Quantum Optics)
"Cavity QED with one atom and two photons" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
