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PRACQSYS 2008
The Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems


25-27 August 2008
Eugene, Oregon


Please note:
Talks will run from Monday morning until Wednesday afternoon. Thus, we recommend arrival on Sunday 24 August and departure on the evening of Wednesday 27 August or Thursday 28 August.

All events will take place in the Erb Memorial Union (in the ballroom on the second floor), except for the banquet, to be held in the main atrium of Willamette Hall (across 13th Ave. from the Union), and of course the outing. Also see the campus map for workshop locations.

A printable agenda is here, and a printable list of abstracts is here.


Monday, 25 August

Session: 10:30-12:00 (Chair: Daniel Steck)
Sean Barrett, Controlling Coherence Using the Internal Structure of Hard Pi Pulses (10:30-11:15)
Lorenza Viola, Dynamically error-corrected gates for accurate quantum control and computation (11:15-12:00)

Poster Session Lunch: 12:00-1:30 (catered lunch)

Session: 1:30-5:00 (Chair: Hideo Mabuchi)
Steffen Glaser, Optimal Control of Spin and Pseudo-Spin Systems (1:30-2:15)
Seth Merkel, Control and Measurement of Hyperfine Spins with Coherent Electromagnetic Fields (2:15-3:00)

Coffee break: 3:00-3:30

Anne Nielsen, Time evolution of the state of atomic systems subjected to measurements (3:30-4:15)
Yanbei Chen, Quantum Control in Gravitational-Wave Detectors (4:15-5:00)


Tuesday, 26 August

Session: 8:30-12:00 (Chair: Klaus Mølmer)
John Gough, Quantum Feedback Networks (8:30-9:15)
Hideo Mabuchi, Experimental coherent-feedback quantum control: opportunities and challenges (9:15-10:00)

Coffee break: 10:00-10:30

Navin Khaneja, Bilinear Control with Periodic Drift: Solid State NMR (10:30-11:15)
Ian Walmsley, Coherent control of decoherence (11:15-12:00)

Lunch: 12:00-1:30 (small groups, self-organized, local restaurants)

Free Time/Outing: Vineyard tasting/tour or hike up Spencer's Butte (1:30-)
Meet tour buses at 1:30 in front of the Student Recreation Center (see the campus map).

Conference Banquet: 6:30-, Willamette Hall Atrium


Wednesday, 27 August

Session: 8:30-12:00 (Chair: Steven van Enk)
Hendra Nurdin, Network synthesis of linear dynamical quantum stochastic systems (8:30-9:15)
Masahiro Yanagisawa, Quantum Networks, Coherent Control, Model Reduction, and Parameterization of Quantum Stabilizing Controllers Based on Transfer Functions (9:15-10:00)

Coffee break: 10:00-10:30

Dan Stamper-Kurn, Quantum cavity micro-mechanics with ultracold atoms (10:30-11:15)
Michael Raymer, Photon Wave Mechanics and Spin-Orbit Interaction in Single Photons (11:15-12:00)

Lunch: 12:00-1:30 (small groups, self-organized, local restaurants)

Session: 1:30-3:00 (Chair: Daniel Steck)
Haidong Yuan, Time optimal control of spin systems (1:30-2:15)
Howard Wiseman, What is quantum about quantum trajectories? (2:15-3:00)

Coffee break: 3:00-3:30

Session: Wrap-Up, 3:30-5:00 (Chair: Hideo Mabuchi)
Ian Petersen, Coherent H infinity control for a class of linear complex quantum systems (3:30-4:10)
Group Discussion (4:10-)