All-Island Conference on Quantum Information Science and Technology National University of Ireland at Maynooth April 19-20, 2007

Organizers: Thomas Busch Jiri Vala

Participants/Confirmed Speakers(*) DIAS Tony Dorlas (*) Anne Ghesquiere Ciara Morgan NUIM Ahmed Bolukbasi Graham Kells (*) Derek McHugh (*) Niall Moran Jiri Vala (*) QUB Paul Delaney Carlo di Franco (*) Elinor Irish (*) Myungshik Kim Petr Marek (*) Jim McCann Domhnall Murphy Chris Ogden (*) Mauro Paternostro (*) Sean Springer Mark Tame (*) UCC/Tyndall/CIT Thejesh Bandi Nagabhushan Thomas Busch (*) Kieran Deasy John Goold (*) Suzanne McEndoo Micheal Morrissey (*) Sile Nic Chormaic Brian O'Sullivan Jonathan Ward (*) Distinguished Guests Professor Shiqi Jin Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics Chinese Academy of Sciences Associate Professor Li Peng Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics Chinese Academy of Sciences

Location Program	Renehan Hall *** click here for NUIM South Campus map ***	South Campus, NUI Maynooth *** click here for NUIM Location & Transport Information ***
	Thursday April 19
9:00- 9:30	Registration
9:30-10:15	Thomas Busch (UCC)	Quantum State Preparation in Microtraps
10:15-11:00	John Goold (UCC)	Quantum Engineering in Low-Dimensional Quantum Gases
11:00-11:15	*** Tea & Coffee
11:15-11:35	Shiqi Lin (CAS, Shanghai)	Dynamic properties of dark resonance systems
11:35-12:00	Shiqi Lin (CAS, Shanghai)	Two-photon Interference: From HBT Interferometer Toward Incoherent Diffraction ImagingTBA
12:00-12:30	Jonathan Ward (CIT/Tyndall)	Optical bistability and upconversion processes in erbium doped glass microspheres
12:30-13:00	Micheal Morrissey (CIT/Tyndall)	Atomic absorption from the evanescent field of a sub-micron taper
13:00-14:30	*** Lunch
14:30-15:15	Tony Dorlas (DIAS)	Generalisation of the HSW Theorem
15:15-16:00	Carlo Di Franco (QUB)	Noise resilience and entanglement evolution in two non-equivalent classes of quantum algorithms
16:00-16:45	Mark Tame (QUB)	Fault-tolerant one-way quantum computation with minimal resources
16:45-17:00	*** Tea & Coffee
17:00-17:45	Mauro Paternostro (QUB)	A quantum dynamo for entanglement
17:45-18:30	Derek McHugh (NUIM)	Entanglement of Continuous Variable Mixed States
	Friday April 20
9:00- 9:45	Peter Marek (QUB)	Experimentally feasible deterministic universal squeezing operation
9:45-10:30	Chris Ogden (QUB)	Concentration and purification of entanglement for qubit systems with ancillary cavity fields
10:30-10:45	*** Tea & Coffee
10:45-11:30	Elinor Irish (QUB)	Coupled Cavity QED
11:30-12:15	Graham Kells (NUIM)	Kitaev Honeycomb Lattice Model: Numerical Observations