Education

 

PhD            

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2001, advisor Ronnie Kosloff

 

RNDr         

Comenius University, Czechoslovakia, 1990, advisor Ludovit Treindl

Masaryk University, Czechoslovakia

 

 

Academic employment

 

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

SFI Research Fellow

Topological phases and quantum computation

11/2005 -

 

University of California, Berkeley       

Assistant Specialist III

Fault-tolerant quantum computation                 

6/2005 - 10/2005

 

University of California, Berkeley

Postdoctoral Scholar                            

Quantum computation science and technology

9/2001 - 3/2005     

 

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Graduate Research Student              

Quantum and coherent control

10/1996 - 9/2001   

 

Brno University of Technology

Research and Teaching Associate        

Molecular electronic structure

9/1995 - 10/1996

 

 

Visiting Appointments

 

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, 2/2006-5/2006

 

Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech, Pasadena, 7/2003 and 4/2005

 

ITAMP, Harvard University, Cambridge, 7/2002 and 8/2003

 

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 8/2002-12/2002

 

Laboratoire Aime Cotton, CNRS, Orsay, 9/1998-11/1998

 

 

Fellowships and Awards

 

President of Ireland Young Researcher Award 2005-2010

 

Hebrew University Graduate Research Studentship 1996-2001

 

Arc-en-Ciel/Keshet Visiting Fellowship 1998

 

BUT Grant for Development of Science and Art 1995

 

Honor of Comenius University Rector for Excellence in Study 1990

 

Third Place in Czechoslovak Student Scientific Competition 1988

 

Third Place in Czechoslovak Chemical Olympiade 1984

 

 

Professional Activities

 

Reviewer for         

Physical Review Letters

Physical Review A

Physical Review B

Physics Letters A

 

Organizer of

Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Seminar 2001-2005

CONQUEST Workshop, Berkeley, 4/2004 (with J. Zhang)

 

Member of

          International Association for Mathematical Physics

          American Mathematical Society

American Physical Society

          American Chemical Society

 

 

Talks

 

Invited Talks at Scientific Meetings

 

2006  Topological Quantum Computation

          Tutorial Presentation, Symposium on Quantum Technologies, University of Cambridge, UK

 

CONQUEST at NUI Maynooth

          Mid-term Review Meeting of EU Network CONQUEST, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

 

Spectral Properties of the Extended Hubbard Model

          Topological Phases and Quantum Computation Program, KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

2004  Control and Decoherence of Quantum Molecular Vibrational Motion

CONQUEST Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

2003 Control and Universality in Quantum Information Processing

Theory in Quantum Computation (THINQC), Harpers Ferry, WV.

 

Initialization of a Quantum Computer of Neutral Atoms in an Addressable Optical Lattice

QuIST DARPA Site Visit, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

Geometric Theory of Nonlocal Two-qubit Operations

Southwest Quantum Information and Technology (SQuInT) Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.

 

2002  Quantum Computing with Optical Lattices

QuIST DARPA Site Visit, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

1997  Towards Control of Photochemical Reactions in Solution

Ecole de Physique, Les Houches, France, invited student presentation.

 

 

Contributed Talks at Scientific Meetings

 

2003 Two-qubit Module Design for a Universal Quantum Compiler

ERATO Conference of Quantum Information Science, Kyoto, Japan.

 

2001  Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm with Rovibrational Molecular Wave Packets

International Conference on Quantum Information, Rochester, NY.

 

 

Seminars and Lectures

 

2006  Topological Quantum Computation, Decoherence-Free Subspaces and Encoded Universality

          Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

2005  Topological Quantum Computation

          Department of Mathematical Physics Seminar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

 

Topological Quantum Computation

          PYIRA Interview Presentation, Science Foundation Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

 

Topological Phases for Quantum Computation: Their Properties and Physical Realization

IQI Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

 

2004  Quantum Computation with Neutral Atoms  in an  Addressable Optical Lattice

Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

Scalable Quantum Computation and Simulation with Neutral Atoms

Yamamoto Group, Department of Physics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

 

Scalable Quantum Computation and Simulation with Neutral Atoms

Department of Physics Colloquium, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA.

 

Fractional Statistics - Tutorial

Topological Quantum Computation Focus Group Meeting

Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

Control and Decoherence of Molecular Quantum States

Berkeley Quantum Control Seminar (EE 298-14),

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

Quantum Error Correction of a Qubit Loss

          Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

          Quantum Control and Quantum Information Processing – How Can These Be Helpful in Chemistry?

Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

 

2003  Optical Lattice Quantum Computing

Quantum Information Science Course (graduate course Phys 191, Chem 191, CS 191),

University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms  in Addressable Optical Lattices

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science Seminar (graduate seminar Phys 290),

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

Two-qubit Module Design for a Universal Quantum Compiler

MagiQ Technologies, Inc., Boston, MA.

 

Two-qubit Module Design for a Universal Quantum Compiler

Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.

 

Two-qubit Module Design for a Universal Quantum Compiler

Quantum Information Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA.

 

Geometric Theory of Two-qubit Operations and its Control Applications

Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

2002  Encoded Universality

JILA Seminar, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

 

Quantum Computing with Optical Lattices

Quantum Lunch, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

2001  Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm with Rovibrational Molecular Wave Packets

Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

2000  Coherent Control of Alkali Atom Photoassociation and Cold Molecule Formation using Chirped Field

Department of Physics Seminar, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

 

Coherent Control of Alkali Atom Photoassociation and Cold Molecule Formation using Chirped Field

Fritz Haber Research Center Seminar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

1999  Impulsive Generation of Second Harmonic Molecular Vibrational Motion

Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group Seminar, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

 

1998  Towards Control of Cold Molecule Formation

Cold Molecule Group Seminar, Laboratoire Aime Cotton, CNRS, Orsay, France

within International Collaboration Project Arc-en-Ciel/Keshet.

 

 

Poster Presentations

 

2005  Spectral Properties of Topological Phases for Naturally Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation

DARPA Quantum Information Science and Technology (QuIST), Program Review Meeting,

St. Augustine, FL.

 

Ultracold Collisions Induced by Frequency-Chirped Light: the Influence of Chirp Direction

(co-author, presented by M. Wright)

36th Annual Meeting of DAMOP, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE,

abstract published in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Spring 2005.

 

2004  Scalable Quantum Computation with Neutral Atoms in an Addressable Optical Lattice

Opening Meeting of the Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center

University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

Ultracold Collisions Induced by Frequency-Chirped Light (co-author, presented by M. Wright)

35th Annual Meeting of DAMOP, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ,

abstract published in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Spring 2004.

 

Quantum Error Correction of a Qubit Loss

Gordon Conference on Quantum Information Science, Ventura, CA.

 

2003  Two-qubit Module Design for a Universal Quantum Compiler

Gordon Conference on Quantum Control of Light and Matter, MA.

 

Initialization of a Quantum Computer of Neutral Atoms in an Optical Lattice of Large Lattice Constant

Gordon Conference on Quantum Information Science, Ventura, CA.

 

Geometric Theory of Nonlocal Two-qubit Operations

Gordon Conference on Quantum Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion, MA.

 

Geometric Theory of Nonlocal Two-qubit Operations

Gordon Conference on Quantum Information Science, Ventura, CA.

 

An Omniscient Maxwell Demon (co-author, presented by D.S. Weiss)

Annual Meeting of DAMOP, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO,

abstract published in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Spring 2003

 

2002  Encoded Universality with Generalized Anisotropic Exchange Interaction

Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing  (QCMC), MIT, Cambridge, MA.

 

Encoded Universality with Generalized Anisotropic Exchange Interaction

Southwest Quantum Information and Technology (SQuInT) Meeting, NIST, Boulder, CO.

 

Encoded Universality with Generalized Anisotropic Exchange Interaction

Quantum Information Processing (QIP), IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY.

 

2001  Impulsive Generation, Detection and Applications of Molecular Vibrational Non-Classical States

Gordon Conference on Quantum Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion, MA.

 

2000  Coherent Time-Domain Control of Photoassociation and Applications

Annual Meeting of DAMOP, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT,

abstract published in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Supplement Summer 2000

 

Controlling and Probing Impulsively Induced Ground State Vibrational Dynamics

(co-author, presented. by E. Gershgoren)

Twelfth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Charleston, SC.

 

Impulsive Vibrational Second  Harmonic Generation in Trihalide Systems

Pitzer Memorial Symposium, University of California at Berkeley, CA.

 

Control of Cold Molecule Formation through Photoassociation

Pitzer Memorial Symposium, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

 

1999  Control of Cold Molecule Formation through Photoassociation

Workshop Prospects in Cold Molecules, Heidelberg, Germany.

 

Towards Control of Cold Molecule Formation: Photoassociation Process

Gordon Conference on Quantum Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion, NH.

 

Towards Control of Cold Molecule Formation: Photoassociation Process

International Conference of Photon, Electron and Atom Collisions, Tokyo, Japan.

 

1998  Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Trihalide Ion Systems as Consequence of Solvent Effect

Molec Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom.