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at the Fields Institute during the year July 2009 - June 2010. (For other years, please
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- October 6, 2009: Ignacio Grossmann, Center for Advanced Process Decision-making, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh:
Mathematical Programming Approaches to Enterprise-wide Optimization of Process Industries
- November 3, 2009: Jean-Francois Hétu, Industrial Materials Institute, National Research Council of Canada:
Putting CFD to work in industry: issues and challenges for optimization
- October 6, 2009: Larry Megan, Advanced Control and Operations Research R&D, Praxair Inc.:
Optimizing the Industrial Gas Supply Chain Across Organizational Boundaries
- November 3, 2009: Dominique Pelletier, Canada Research Chair on Analysis, Characterization and optimization of Complex Flow Systems, École Polytechnique de Montréal:
Simulation-Based Engineering Analysis and Design: Issues and Challenges
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- Saugata Basu, Purdue University:
Polynomial hierarchy, Betti numbers and a real analogue of Toda's theorem
- Carlos Beltrán, Universidad de Cantabria:
Path-following methods for solving Smale's 17th problem. Recent progress and open questions
- Peter Bürgisser, Universität Paderborn:
Condition- Lecture 2
- Felipe Cucker, City University of Hong Kong:
Condition - Lecture 1
- Peter Bürgisser, Felipe Cucker, Universität Paderborn, City University of Hong Kong:
Condition - Lecture 3
- Alexandre D'Aspremont, Princeton University:
Tractable performance bounds for compressed sensing
- Jean Pierre Dedieu, Universite de Toulouse:
Complexity of Bezout's Theorem and the Condition Number - Lecture 1
- Jean Pierre Dedieu, Universite de Toulouse:
Complexity of Bezout's Theorem and the Condition Number - Lecture 2
- Jean Pierre Dedieu, Universite de Toulouse:
Complexity of Bezout's Theorem and the Condition Number - Lecture 3
- Marc Giusti, Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau:
On the geometry of polar varieties
- Askold Khovanskii, University of Toronto:
An interplay between Algebraic Geometry and Convex Geometry - Lecture 1
- Askold Khovanskii, University of Toronto:
An interplay between Algebraic Geometry and Convex Geometry - Lecture 2
- Myong-Hi Kim, SUNY at Old Westbury:
The average cost of one variable root finding polynomial
- Gregoire Lecerf, Université de Versailles:
Symbolic deformation techniques for polynomial system solving-Lecture 1
- Gregoire Lecerf, Université de Versailles:
Symbolic deformation techniques for polynomial system solving - Lecture 2
- Gregoire Lecerf, Université de Versailles:
Symbolic deformation techniques for polynomial system solving - Lecture 3
- Renato Monteiro, Georgia Institute of Technology:
Algorithms for large scale structured optimization problems-Lecture1
- Renato Monteiro, Georgia Institute of Technology:
Algorithms for large scale structured optimization problems - Lecture 2
- Renato Monteiro, Georgia Institute of Technology:
Algorithms for large scale structured optimization problems - Lecture 3
- Bernard Mourrain, INRIA Sophia Antipolis:
Isolation of real roots of polynomial systems, complexity and condition number
- Luis Miguel Pardo, Universidad de Cantabria:
On the work of Jean-Pierre Dedieu
- Marie-Francoise Roy, Universite de Rennes 1:
Certificates of positivity in the Bernstein basis
- Andrew Sommese, University of Notre Dame:
Zebra Fish, Tumor Growth, and Algebraic Geometry
- Joris van der Hoeven, Université Paris-Sud:
On the art of guessing
- Yinyu Ye, Stanford University:
On the complexity of L-p norm minimization for p less than 1
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- Peter Abrams, University of Toronto:
A review of research on adaptive movement and an overview of open questions
- Peter Abrams, University of Toronto:
Impacts of movement costs on between-patch movements and ecological interactions
- Priyanga Amarasekare, UCLA:
Non-random dispersal strategies in multi-tropic communities
- Steve Cantrell, University of Miami:
How biased density dependent movement of a species at the boundary of a habitat patch mediates its within-patch dynamics
- Peter Chesson, University of Arizona:
The effects of adaptive predator movement on coexistence of prey species in a spatially varying environment
- Chris Cosner, University of Miami:
Evolutionary aspects of directed movement in reaction-advection-diffusion models and their discrete analogues
- Ross Cressman, Wilfrid Laurier University:
Time Scales and Stability in Models of Coevolution
- Sam Flaxman, University of Colorado:
Coevolution of predator and prey movement mechanisms in an individual based model
- John Fryxell, University of Guelph:
Sociality, movement, and predator-prey dynamics in the Serengeti ecosystem
- Richard Gomulkiewicz, Washington State University:
Evolution of spatial correlations among interacting species
- Robert Holt, University of Florida:
The influence of adaptive movement on coevolutionary dynamics
- Christopher Klausmeier, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University:
Adaptive movement of phytoplankton in vertical gradients and light and nutrients
- Mathew Leibold, University of Texas:
Metacommunity perspective on the consequences of adaptive dispersal
- Mark Lewis, University of Alberta:
First passage time: Connecting random walks to functional responses
- Frithjof Lutscher, University of Ottawa:
Population dynamics of central place foragers
- Barney Luttbeg, Oklahoma State University:
Adaptive predator and prey movement rules in a spatial game
- Kevin McCann, University of Guelph:
The Critical Role of Movement in Large and Small Ecosystems
- Roger Nisbet, UCSB:
Adaptive movement and spatial scales in advection-dominated systems
- Sebastian Schreiber, U.C. Davis:
Evolution of predator and prey movement in heterogenous environments
- Yuan Lou, Ohio State University:
Evolution of conditional dispersal in spatially heterogeneous habitats
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- David H. Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab:
High-Precision Arithmetic and Experimental Mathematics
- Dan Bernstein, University of Illinois at Chicago:
Addition laws on elliptic curves
- Jon Borwein, University of Newcastle:
Exploratory Experimentation and Computation
- Andrew Bremner, Arizona State University:
Rational points on y2 = xn + k
- Timothy Caley, University of Waterloo:
The Prouhet-Tarry-Escott Problem over the Gaussian Integers
- Marc Chamberland, Grinnell College:
Beautiful Sums: from Ramanujan to Apery
- Morley Davidson, Kent State University:
From covering congruences to the superflip: a distributed computing experiment
- Bart de Smit, Universiteit Leiden:
Searching for ABC triples
- Karl Dilcher, Dalhousie University:
Mod p3 analogues of theorems of Gauss and Jacobi on binomial coecients
- Michael Filaseta, University of South Carolina:
Open Problems on Covering Systems
- David Freeman, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands:
Pairing{friendly hyperelliptic curves and Weil restriction
- Hester Graves, Queen's University:
Euclidean Ideals in Imaginary Quadratic Fields
- Richard Guy, University of Calgary:
Talk on recent work
- Patrick Ingram, University of Waterloo:
Periodic points for polynomials over number elds
- Jeff Lagarias, University of Michigan:
Ternary Expansions of Powers of 2
- Tanje Lange, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven:
Edwards curves for ECM
- Hendrik Lenstra, Mathematisch Instituut, Universiteit Leiden:
Pro nite Fibonacci numbers
- James McKee, Royal Holloway, University of London:
Totally Positive Algebraic Integers of Small Trace
- Michael Mossinghoff, Davidson College:
Wieferich Madness
- Ram Murty, Queen's University:
Ramanujan and the ζ-function
- Nathan Ng, University of Lethbridge:
Talk on recent work
- Georges Rhin, Université de Metz:
On the totally real algebraic integers with diameter less than 4
- Igor Schparlinski, Macquarie University:
Possible Group Structures of Elliptic Curves
- Chris Smyth, University of Edinburgh:
Intersecting plane curves with the Euclidean algorithm
- Cam Stewart, University of Waterloo:
Neighbouring Powers
- Graeme Taylor, University of Edinburgh:
Integer Matrices with Constrained Eigenvalues
- Michael Yampolsky, University of Toronto:
Diophantine conditions and computability in polynomial dynamics
- Soroosh Yazdani, McMaster University:
On Szpiro's Conjecture
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- Panos Aliferis, IBM Watson Research Center:
Talk on recent work
- Panos Aliferis, IBM Watson Research Center:
Talk on recent work
- Jonathan Baugh, University of Waterloo:
NMR Quantum Information Processing
- Jonathan Baugh, University of Waterloo:
Advances and prospects in QIP implementations
- Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute:
Quantum Error Correction
- Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute:
Quantum Error Correction cont.
- David Kribs, University of Gueph:
Quantum information basics
- Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California:
Hybrid quantum error prevention, reduction, and correction methods
- Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California:
Hybrid quantum error prevention, reduction, and correction methods cont.
- Norbert Lutkenhaus, University of Waterloo:
Quantum Key Distribution: Theory and Practice
- Michele Mosca, University of Waterloo:
Quantum Computer Algorithms
- Michele Mosca, University of Waterloo:
Quantum Computer Algorithms
- Barry Sanders, University of Calgary:
Implementing quantum information in silicon
- Guifre Vidal, University of Queensland:
Entanglement
- Guifre Vidal, University of Queensland:
Entanglement in quantum many-body systems
- John Watrous, University of Waterloo:
Quantum Computational Complexity part 1
- John Watrous, University of Waterloo:
Quantum Computational Complexity part 2
- Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory:
Asymptotic theory of quantum communication
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- James Agler, UCSD:
Shur models, realizations and the generalization of theorems of Catatheodory, Julia and Wolf to several variables
- William Arveson, UC Berkeley:
Standard Hilbert modules and the K-homology of algebraic varieties
- Joseph Ball, VPISU:
Hardy algebras associated with W-correspondences: examples and applications
- Shibananda Biswas, Indian Statistical Institute:
Invariants for semi-Fredholm Hilbert module
- Vladimir Bolotnikov, The College of William and Mary:
Functional-model realizations for contractive multipliers of the Drury-Arveson space
- Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto:
Joint spectral circles
- Kenneth Davidson, University of Waterloo:
Commutant Lifting for Commuting Row Contractions
- Ronald Douglas, TAMU:
On Resolutions of Hilbert Modules
- Lawrence Fialkow, SUNY New Paltz:
Positivity of Riesz functionals and solutions of quadratic and quartic moment problems
- Palle Jorgensen, University of Iowa:
Representations of the Cuntz algebras, and some of their applications
- Michael Jury, University of Florida:
The commutative operator algebra of a finite-dimensional operator space
- Elias Katsoulis, East Carolina University:
Semicrossed products of the non-commutative disc algebras
- Matthew Kennedy, University of Waterloo:
Wandering vectors and the hyper-reflexivity of the free semigroup algebras
- Derek Kitson, Trinity College Dublin:
A collection of Browder joint spectra
- Greg Knese, University of California, Irvine:
Rational inner functions on the bidisk
- Terry A. Loring, University of New Mexico:
Noncommutative Semialgebraic sets
- Meghna Mittal, University of Houston:
Operator Algebra of Functions
- Mihai Putinar, UCSB:
Extremal pluriharmonic functions in the unit ball
- Justin R. Peters, Iowa State University:
Semicrossed products of Exel type
- Stefan Richter, University of Tennessee:
Extremals for families of commuting operators
- Roger Roybal, CSU Channel Islands:
The joint defect index of a symmetric operator tuple
- Kristian Seip, Trondheim University:
Bounded analytic functions on the infinite polydisc
- Orr Shalit, University of Waterloo:
Representing a product system representation as a contractive semigroup and applications to dilation theory
- Subrata Shyam Roy, Indian Statistical Institute:
Homogeneous Operators, Jet Construction and Similarity
- Tavan Trent, University of Alabama:
On the Taylor spectrum of n-tuples of Toeplitz operators on the polydisk
- Dror Varolin, Stony Brook University:
Weighted-L2 extension of holomorphic functions from hypersurfaces in Cn
- Hugo J. Woerdeman, Drexel University:
Classes of tuples of commuting contractions satisfying the multivariable von Neumann inequality
- Bamdad Yahaghi, University of Golestan:
An overview of trangularizability results on collections of compact
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- Girish S. Agarwal, Oklahoma State University:
How Much Quantum Noise is Detrimental to Entanglement
- Alain Aspect, Groupe d'Optique Atomique:
From Einstein's LichtQuanten to Wheeler's delayed choice experiment: quantum weirdness brought to light
- Stephen Bartlett, The University of Sydney:
Quantum computers: A new state of matter?
- Daniel Burgarth, Imperial College London:
Scalable quantum computation via local control of only two qubits
- Kyung Soo Choi, California Institute of Technology:
Coherent control and characterization of entanglement with atomic ensembles
- Susan Clark, Stanford University:
Ultrafast optical spin echo for electron spins in semiconductors
- David G. Cory, MIT:
The Design and Function of Quantum Information Processors
- Steve Flammia, Perimeter Institute:
Ultrafast quantum state tomography
- Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University:
Entanglement and nonlocality in multiqubit pure states
- Nicolas Gisin, Université de Genève:
Solid-state quantum memories for quantum repeaters
- Lucien Hardy, Perimeter Institute:
Operational Computation with Quantum Stuff
- Seogjoo Jang, Queens College of the City University of New York:
Theory of coherent resonance energy transfer for coherent initial condition
- Thomas Jennewein, Institute for Quantum Computing:
Quantum Communication and Information Processing with Photons - Experiments and Outlook
- Masato Koashi, Osaka University:
Complementarity and security of quantum key distribution
- Jordan Kyriakidis, Dalhousie University:
Non-adiabatic quantum control of multiple quantum dots embedded in cavities with global femtosecond optical pulses
- Anthony Laing, University of Bristol:
Quantum Process Discrimination, Waveguides, and Fault Tolerant Quantum Processes
- Jeff Lundeen, National Research Council, Institute for National Measurement Standards:
Designed photons from birefrigent waveguides
- Alberto M. Marino, NIST:
Applications of Four-Wave Mixing in Quantum Information
- John Martinis, University of California Santa Barbara:
Synthesizing arbitrary photon states in a superconducting resonator: The quantum digital to analog converter
- Ross McKenzie, University of Queensland:
Electronic excited states in optically active biomolecules: functional quantum systems with a tuneable environment interaction
- Akimasa Miyake, Perimeter Institute:
Quantum matchgate computation is as powerful as space-bounded quantum computation
- Chris Monroe, University of Maryland:
Quantum Networks with Ions, Phonons, and Photons
- Marcus Motzkus, University of Marburg:
Spectroscopy of biological molecules using coherent control
- P.K. Pathak, Queen's University:
Merging photonic crystal cavities and single quantum dots: a practical source of entangled photon pairs
- Terence Rudolph, Imperial College London:
A photonic cluster state machine gun
- Masahide Sasaki, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology:
Going beyond Gaussian limits on continuous variable processing and measurement
- Gregory Scholes, University of Toronto:
Coherently wired light-harvesting in a photosynthetic marine alga at ambient temperature
- Evgeny Shapiro, The University of British Columbia:
``Piecewise'' vs. ``Coherently controlled'' adiabatic passage
- Christoph Simon, University of Calgary:
Quantum Repeaters
- Martin J. Stevens, NIST:
Measuring High-Order Coherences of Chaotic and Coherent Optical States
- Hiroki Takesue, NTT Corporation:
Unconditionally secure entanglement-based quantum key distribution experiment
- Wolfgang Tittel, University of Calgary:
Photon-Echo Quantum Memory and Controlled State Manipulation
- Yuuki Tokunaga, NTT, Osaka University:
Complete process tomography of experimental one-way quantum computation
- Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University:
Quantum dots in photonic crystals: from quantum information processing to optical switching at a single photon level
- Andrew White, University of Queensland:
Quantum Chemistry on a Quantum Computer: First Steps and Prospects
- Nathan Wiebe, University of Calgary:
Quantum Computer Simulations of Time Dependent Hamiltonians
- Lian-Ao Wu, University of the Basque Country:
Looking into the relation between quantum phase transition and entanglment via density functional theorey
- Ting Yu, Stevens Institute of Technology:
Disentanglement and Control of Qubit Systems
- Ran Zhao, Georgia Institute of Technology:
Long-lived Quantum Memories
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- Devon N. Biggerstaff, Institute for Quantum Computing:
Optical implementation of a POVM measurement for photonic cluster-state quantum computing
- Aharon Brodutch, Macquarie University:
Zero Discord
- Chen-Fu Chiang, University of Central Florida:
A Quantum Algorithm for Approximating Partition Functions
- Jason Crann, University of Guelph:
The Geometry of Anticoherent Spin States
- Nathaniel Johnston, University of Guelph:
The Multiplicative Domain in Quantum Error Correction
- Nathan Killoran, IQC:
Remote state preparation: Quantum vs. Classical
- Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Universite de Montreal:
Decoherence Supression via environment preparation
- Lauri Lehman, Macquarie University:
Quantum walks with anyons
- Easwar Magesan, University of Waterloo:
Characterizing the Quantum Gate Fidelity
- Evan Meyer-Scott, Institute for Quantum Computing:
Quantum Key Distribution at 810 nm Through Installed Fibre Optics
- Osama Moussa, Institute for Quantum Computing:
Testing contextuality on quantum ensembles with one clean qubit
- Nishan Mudalige, University of Guelph:
The Geometry of The Higher-Rank Numerical Range and its Implications in Quantum Data Error Correction
- Corey O'Meara, University of Guelph:
The geometry of Schur maps and their application to the description of random unitary channels
- Gina Passante, University of Waterloo:
Approximating the Jones polynomial: an NMR experiment
- Jibran Rashid, University of Calgary:
Optimal Protocols for Non-locality Distillation
- Ressa S. Said, Macquarie University:
Atomic phase estimation using a composite method of adaptive feedback and multiple phase shifts
- Anya Tafliovich, University of Toronto:
Predicative Quantum Programming
- Borzumehr Toloui, University of Calgary:
Frameness of Formation for Single Qubits
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- Koenraad Audenaert, University of London:
Variance bounds and commutators
- Fernando Brandao, Imperial College London:
Quantum hypothesis testing of non-i.i.d. states and its connection to reversible resource theories
- Benoit Collins, University of Ottawa:
Random quantum channels: almost sure confinement of the eigenvalues
- Toby Cubitt, University of Bristol:
Superactivation of the Zero-Error Classical Capacity of a Quantum Channel
- Edward Effros, UCLA:
Introduction to operator spaces
- Patrick Hayden, McGill University:
A liberation process for quantum mutual information
- Marius Junge, University of Illinois:
Mixed Lp-norms and minimal entropy
- Nilufer Koldan/ Christopher King, Northeastern University:
Comments on Hastings' additivity counterexamples-1
- Christopher King, Northeastern University:
Comments on Hastings' additivity counterexamples-2
- Vladimir Korepin, Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics:
Entanglement in Quantum Spin Chains
- David Kribs, University of Guelph:
Introduction to some operator structures relevant to quantum information
- Debbie Leung, University of Waterloo:
Continuity of quantum channel capacities
- Milan Mosonyi, National University of Singapore:
Discriminating correlated states of quantum lattice systems
- Ion Nechita, University of Ottawa and Université Lyon 1:
Majorization, entanglement catalysis, stochastic domination and $\ell_p$ norms
- Ion Nechita, University of Ottawa and Université Lyon 1:
Random quantum channels: graphical calculus
- Igor Bjelakovic/ Janis Noetzel, Technische Universitaet Berlin:
Universal quantum channel coding
- Carlos Palazuelos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid:
Operator Spaces: A natural language for Bell Inequalities
- Mary Beth Ruskai, Tufts University:
LOCC in operator language
- Volkher Scholz, LUH:
Tsirelson's problem
- M.E. Shirokov, Steklov Mathematical Institute:
The stability property of the set of quantum states and its applications
- Graeme Smith, IBM TJ Watson Research Center:
Introduction to quantum channel capacities
- Erling Stormer, University of Oslo:
Mapping cones of positive maps of B(H) into itself with H finite dimensional
- John Watrous, University of Waterloo:
Semidefinite programs for completely bounded norms
- Stephanie Wehner, Caltech:
A strong converse for classical channel coding using entangled inputs
- Michael Wolf, Copenhagen University:
Short stories on concatenated quantum channels
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- Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University:
Quantum computer simulation for chemical dynamics and molecular electronic structure
- Paul W. Ayers, McMaster University:
Variational Reduced Density Matrix Theory: Successes and Failures
- Bastiaan Braams, Emory University:
The reduced density matrix method and some complexity issues
- Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, Cornell University:
The DMRG and Correlator Product States
- Matthias Christandl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München:
Estimating the spectrum of an operator - a technique for the analysis of spectral relations via representation theory
- Robert Erdahl, Queen's University:
Reduced density matrices, the lower bound method and the contracted Schroedinger equation
- Alexander Klyachko, Bilkent University:
Quantum marginal problem
- Alexander Klyachko, Bilkent University:
The Pauli exclusion principle and beyond
- Robert Koenig (Caltech), Graeme Mitchison (University of Cambridge):
de Finetti theorems for quantum states
- Allen Knutson, University of California, San Diego:
Schubert Calculus short course
- Allen Knutson, University of California, San Diego:
Schubert Calculus short course part 2
- Allen Knutson, University of California, San Diego:
Schubert Calculus short course part 3
- Allen Knutson, University of California, San Diego:
Schubert Calculus short course part 4
- Yi-Kai Liu, California Institute of Technology:
N-representability is QMA-complete
- Peter Love, Haverford College:
QMA-complete problems for stoquastic Hamiltonians and Markov matrices
- Stefano Pironio, University of Geneva:
Non-commutative polynomial optimization and the varianional RDM method
- Renato Renner, ETH Zurich:
De Finetti and entropies
- Mary Beth Ruskai, Tufts University:
transition remarks
- Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna:
Density matrices in real-space renormalization group methods
- Tzu-Chieh Wei, University of Waterloo:
Bosonic N-representability problem is also QMA-complete
- Andreas Winter, University of Bristol:
A new inequality for the von Neumann entropy
- Michael M. Wolf, Niels Bohr Institute:
Bell inequalities and joint measurability - relating classical and quantum marginal problems
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