# THEMATIC PROGRAMS

July 31, 2021

## July 6-10, 2009 Workshop on Operator Structures in Quantum Information

Organizing Committee:
Patrick Hayden (McGill)
Marius Junge (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
David Kribs (Guelph)
Debbie Leung (Waterloo)
Mary Beth Ruskai (Tufts)
Andreas Winter (Bristol & Singapore)
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 Monday July 6 9:00 - 9:20 am Welcome and Introduction 9:20 - 10:10 David Kribs (University of Guelph) Introduction to some operator structures relevant to quantum information 10:10 - 10:40 Break 10:40 - 11:30 John Watrous (University of Waterloo) Semidefinite programs for completely bounded norms 1130 - 12:20 pm Carlos Palazuelos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Operator Spaces: A natural language for Bell Inequalities 12:20 - 2:30 Lunch Break 2:30 - 3:20 Erling Stormer (University of Oslo) Mapping cones of positive maps of B(H) into itself with H finite dimensional 3:20 - 3:50 Vladimir Korepin (Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics) Entanglement in Quantum Spin Chains 3:50 - 4:20 Break 4:20 - 4:50 pre-poster announcements Jon Tyson (Harvard University) Two-sided bounds on minimum-error quantum measurement, quantum conditional min-entropy, and on the reversibility of quantum dynamics using the first Jezek-Rehacek-Fiurasek-Hradil iterate Marco Piani (Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo) All entangled states are useful for channel discrimination Yingkai Ouyang (University of Waterloo) Upper bounds on the rate of nondegenerate p-ary stabilizer codes Raisa Karasik (University of California, Berkeley) Multi-particle decoherence free subspaces and incoherently generated coherences Cedric Beny (National University of Singapore ) Quantum error correction on infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces 4:50 - 5:00 Man-Duen Choi (University of Toronto) The Stinespring Theorem made difficult 5:00 - 6:30 Reception and Poster Session Fields Institute Tuesday July 7 9:00 - 9:50 am Edward Effros (UCLA) Introduction to operator spaces 9:50 - 10:20 Volkher Scholz (LUH) Tsirelson's problem 10:20 - 10:50 Break 10:50 - 11:40 Marius Junge (University of Illinois) Mixed Lp-norms and minimal entropy 11:40 - 12:10 Nilufer Koldan/ Christopher King (Northeastern University) 12:10 - 2:30 pm Lunch Break 2:30 - 3:20 Ion Nechita (University of Ottawa and Université Lyon 1) Majorization, entanglement catalysis, stochastic domination and $\ell_p$ norms 3:20 - 3:50 Mary Beth Ruskai (Tufts University) LOCC in operator language 3:50 - 4:20 Break 4:20 - 5:10 Fernando Brandao (Imperial College London) Quantum hypothesis testing of non-i.i.d. states and its connection to reversible resource theories Wednesday July 8 9:00 - 9:50 am Graeme Smith (IBM TJ Watson Research Center) Introduction to quantum channel capacities 9:50 - 10:30 Debbie Leung (University of Waterloo) Continuity of quantum channel capacities 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:40 Toby Cubitt (University of Bristol) Superactivation of the Zero-Error Classical Capacity of a Quantum Channel 11:40 -12:30 Christopher King (Northeastern University) Comments on Hastings' additivity counterexamples Free Afternoon Thursday July 9 9:00 - 9:50 am Stephanie Wehner (Caltech) A strong converse for classical channel coding using entangled inputs 9:50 - 10:40 Patrick Hayden (McGill University) A liberation process for quantum mutual information 10:40 - 11:10 Break 11:10 - 11:50 Ion Nechita (University of Ottawa and Université Lyon 1) Random quantum channels: graphical calculus 11:50 - 12:20 Benoit Collins (University of Ottawa) Random quantum channels: almost sure confinement of the eigenvalues 12:20 - 2:30 pm Lunch Break 2:30 - 3:20 Milan Mosonyi (National University of Singapore) Discriminating correlated states of quantum lattice systems 3:20 - 3:50 Break 3:50 - 4:40 Igor Bjelakovic/ Janis Noetzel (Technische Universitaet Berlin) Universal quantum channel coding 4:40 - 5:10 open prob discussion Friday July 10 9:00 - 9:50 am Michael Wolf (Copenhagen University) Short stories on concatenated quantum channels 9:50 - 10:40 M.E.Shirokov (Steklov Mathematical Institute) The stability property of the set of quantum states and its applications 10:40 - 11:10 Break 11:10 - 12:00 Koenraad Audenaert (University of London) Variance bounds and commutators 12:00 - 12:30 pm WRAP-UP