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COMBINING VIEWPOINTS IN QUANTUM THEORY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 19-22 March 2018 Edinburgh, United Kingdom http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cheunen/cvqt/ FINANCIAL SUPPORT Financial support to cover accommodation is available for PhD students and early career researchers. Preference will be given to those who match the topic of the workshop, minorities, and those with caring duties. Email chris.heu...@ed.ac.uk to apply. PROGRAMME * Ramon Alonso-Sanz (Madrid): Collective quantum games * Stijn de Baerdemacker (Ghent): ZXZ decompositions of quantum and classical reversible circuits * Niel de Beaudrap (Oxford): Quantum computation in the hall of mirrors * Alejandro Diaz-Caro (Quilmes): Two recent approaches to quantum control * Pau Enrique Moliner (Edinburgh): Tensor topology * Tobias Fritz (Leipzig): Measurement functors * John Harding (New Mexico): Boolean subalgebras of orthoalgebras * Martin Idel (TNG): Sinkhorn's theorem in quantum theory * Martti Karvonen (Edinburgh): Dagger limits * Viv Kendon (Durham): TBA * Mark Lawson (Edinburgh): Non-commutative Stone dualities and etale groupoids * Bert Lindenhovius (Tulane): Posets of commutative C*-subalgebras * Frank Oertel (London): A statistical interpretation of Grothendieck's inequality and its relation to the size of of nonlocality in quantum mechanics * Pedro Resende (Lisbon): Quanta and qualia * Manny Reyes (Bowdoin): Towards a functorial quantum spectrum for noncommutative algebras * David Reutter (Oxford): Quantum combinatorics and the Morita theory of quantum graph isomorphisms * Phil Scott (Ottawa): AF C*-algebras, many-valued logics, and effect algebras * Rui Soares Barbosa (Oxford): Contextuality as a resource * Ekaterina Turilova (Kazan): Choquet order and abelian subalgebras * Benoit Valiron (Paris): From symmetric pattern-matching to quantum control * Jamie Vicary (Birmingham&Oxford): Higher structures and formal proof * Bas Westerbaan (Nijmegen): Effectus theory - an introduction, a reconstruction, and possibilistic equivalences Additionally there will be a wine reception on the Monday, a social excursion on Wednesday afternoon, and a dinner on Wednesday evening. See the website for the full programme and abstract. REGISTRATION There is no registration fee. Tea, coffee, and lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please email chris.heu...@ed.ac.uk. <http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cheunen/cvqt/> TOPIC Quantum informatics lies at the interface of mathematics, computer science, and physics. Understanding quantum computing in enough detail to allow its large-scale deployment will clearly transform our society, but there are several obstructions. The most fundamental ones run straight to the heart of the counterintuitiveness of quantum theory: one can only extract data from a quantum system from one classical viewpoint at a time. Learning more requires combining measurements from multiple classical viewpoints. Addressing this issue will advance our theoretical understanding of nature and at the same time has practical benefits to quantum technology. This workshop brings together researchers working on this topic and thematically related areas. It aims to inspire new collaborations and provide an opportunity for young researchers to expand their horizons. This is an interdisciplinary workshop, and not a specialist conference. The goal is not to preach to the converted but to reach out to others. The programme leaves plenty of opportunities for discussion.
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