Workshop on

Quantum Information Theory
and
Quantum Statistical Inference

17-18 November, 2005,
University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan

Koshiba Hall Faculty of Science Bldg.1 17, 18(Morning)
3F Seminar Room D, Faculty of Engineering Bldg.618(Afternoon),
Sponsored by the 21st Century COE by MEXT,
COE Project `Information Science and Technology Strategic Core', the University of Tokyo
and by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(1)
`Mathematical Statistical Foundation of Quantum Statistical and Its Applications'
Headed by Professor Masafumi Akahira

in cooperation with
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) `Superrobust Computation' by MEXT (see this page)
ERATO Quantum Computation and Information Project

General

The workshop highlights the state-of-the-art of quantum information theory in a two-day meeting organized by the COE project, and features invited talks from the viewpoint of the Superrobust computation subproject, such as quantum error-correcting codes and quantum-information-theoretic treatment of decoherence and noises in quantum information processing. The workshop also focuses on quantum statistical inference, the theory of quantum communication, distinguishability and entanglement, including topics such as channel capacities and resource tradeoffs, quantum source coding and data compression, quantum channel coding and error-correcting codes, state and channel distinguishability and tomography, entanglement and entanglement measures, additivity/nonadditivity results, quantum cryptographic theory, teleportation and entanglement-assisted communication, and interaction as a communication primitive.

Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline: 1st October 2005
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: 17th October 2005

Invited Speakers:

• Igor Devetak, University of Southern California
"Dualities in Quantum Information Theory"
Madalin Guta, University of Nijmegen
"Minimax estimation of the Wigner function in quantum homodyne tomography"
Akihisa Hayashi, Fukui Univ.
"State discrimination without classical knowledge"
Masato Koashi, Osaka Univ.
"Unconditional security of QKD and uncertainty principle"
Damian Markham, Univ. of Tokyo
"Local Discrimination and Multipartite Entanglement Measures"
Hiroshi Nagaoka, Univ. of Electro-Communications
"Differential geometrical aspcets of quantum estimation theory"
Masanao Ozawa, Tohoku Univ.
"Quantum noise, universal uncertainty principle and modal interpretation of quantum mechanics"
Paolo Perinotti, Univ of Pavia
"Programming quantum devices"
Seiichiro Tani, ERATO QCI project/NTT
"An Application of Entanglement to Leader Election in Anonymous Networks"
Akihisa Tomita, ERATO QCI project/NEC
"Characterization of entangled photon pairs generated by spontaneous parametric down conversion"
Jon Yard, McGill University/Caltech
"Network Quantum Shannon Theory"

Program

Organizing Committee:

• Masahito Hayashi (Chair), ERATO & Univ. Tokyo
• Hiroshi Imai, Univ. Tokyo & ERATO
• Keiji Matsumoto, NII & ERATO
• Jun Hasegawa (Local Arrangements), Univ. Tokyo & ERATO
• Mami Takahashi (Local Arrangements), Univ. Tokyo