Aashish Clerk, McGill University
Slow neutrons are used in a very broad spectrum of scientific investigations. I will discuss how neutrons are liberated from nuclei and lowered in energy to regimes of interest. I will also discuss some examples of experiments, mainly motivated by questions in nuclear/particle/astrophysics.
Helen Fay Dowker, Imperial College London
We provide the first two-party protocol allowing Alice and Bob to evaluate privately even against active adversaries a completely positive, trace-preserving map F, given as a quantum circuit, upon their joint quantum input state. Our protocol leaks no more to any active adversary than an ideal functionality for F provided Alice and Bob have the cryptographic resources for active secure two-party classical computation.
Pragya Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Jonathan Friedman, Amherst College
David Gosset, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
Melanie Jensenworth, University of Washington
A welded tree is a graph consisting of two binary trees "welded"
together with a random cycle between the leaves. In 2003, Childs et
al. showed that a quantum walk has an exponential speedup over
classical algorithms when traversing the graph from one root vertex to
the other. I give evidence that related graphs also have an
exponential gap between classical algorithms and the quantum walk.
Vadym Kliuchnikov, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
TBD
Guoxing Miao, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)