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Mathematics

Working Seminar on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

Fall 2019

 

Date:September 9, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Organizational Meeting and Overview
Abstract:We'll make some plans for the semester and then I'll start discussing William Slofstra's paper titled ``The set of quantum correlations is not closed'', https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08618.

Date:September 16, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Kari Eifler, TAMU
Title:The set of quantum correlations is not closed
Abstract:We'll start working through the preliminaries of https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08618: group theory, approximate representations and hyperlinearity, linear system games, solution groups etc.

Date:September 23, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:Bloc 624
Speaker:John Weeks, TAMU
Title:The embedding theorem

Date:September 30, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Samuel Harris, TAMU
Title:

Date:October 21, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:Bloc 624
Speaker:Li Gao, TAMU
Title:Non-closure of quantum correlation matrices and factorizable channels that require infinite dimensional ancilla
Abstract:We will go over the paper of Musat and Rordam: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10242

Date:October 28, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:Bloc 624
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Factorizable maps and traces on the universal free product of matrix algebras
Abstract:We will survey some results from the paper by Musat and Rordam with the same title.

Date:November 4, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Bisynchronous correlations and factorizable maps
Abstract:We'll continue on with our discussion of factorizable channels and state some questions/conjectures about those arising from bisynchronous correlations.

Date:November 11, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Li Gao, TAMU
Title:Quantum Brascamp-Lieb Inequalities

Date:November 18, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:BOC 624
Speaker:Xiaoyu Su, TAMU
Title:Brascamp-Lieb duality for quantum relative entropies

Date:November 25, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:LI Gao, TAMU
Title:Quantum Brascamp-Lieb - The final showdown

Date:December 2, 2019
Time:12:30pm
Location:Bloc 624
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Haagerup Inequalities and Super-Additivity of the Regularized Minimum Output Entropy
Abstract:I will present some work of Collins-Youn on applications of the Haagerup inequality on free groups to the construction of quantum channels which witness super-addivity of the regularized minimum output entropy.