PRACQSYS 2006
The Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems

August 7-12, 2006
Harvard University Campus, Cambridge, MA

7:00 - 8:15 Registration and Breakfast, Lobby of Maxwell Dworkin

8:15 – 8:30 Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Opening Remarks
8:30 - 9:15 Roger Brockett, Concepts in Control Theory
9:15 - 10:15 Alex Pines, Iterative Control of Spin and Vehicles

10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:15 Robert Griffin, Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
11:15 – 12:00 Malcom Levitt, Control of Nuclear Spin Systems from Compensating Pulses to Symmetry Based Pulse Sequence Design  http://www.mhl.soton.ac.uk/public/research/topics/CompositePulses/index.html

12:00 – 2:30 Lunch Break

2:30 – 3:15 Michael Mehring, Phase Coherent Control of Quantum States
3:15 – 4:00 Gerhard Wagner, Challenges and Opportunities in Biomolecular NMR

4:00 – 4:15 Break

4:15 – 5:00 Navin Khaneja, Optimal Control in Magnetic Resonance
5:00 – 5:45 Steffen Glaser, Optimal Control of Spin Systems
5:45 – 6:30 Niels Nielsen, Optimal Control in Solid State NMR
6:30 – Welcome Reception

7:45 – 8:30 Breakfast, Lobby of Maxwell Dworkin

8:30 – 9:15 Roger Brockett, Stochastic Control
9:15 – 10:15 Gerard Milburn, Measurement and feedback control of quantum electromechanical systems

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:15 Hideo Mabuchi, Wonham Filters and Stablizer Codes
11:15 – 12:00 Viacheslav Belavkin, Quantum Filtering and Feedback Control Without Measurement

12:00 – 3:00 Lunch Break
3:00 – 3:45 Howard Wiseman, Surprises in the Measurement and Control of a Qubiti
3:45 – 4:30 Andrew Doherty, Getting a Handle on a Single Qubit
4:30 – 4:45 Break
4:45 – 5:30 John Baras, What Quantum Computation Can Do for Nonlinear Filtering and Stochastic Control

5:30 – 6:15 Matt James, H-Infinity Control of Linear Quantum Systems
6:15 – 7:00 PM Discussion (Krishnaprasad and Hideo)

7:45 – 8:30 Breakfast, Lobby of Maxwell Dworkin

8:30 – 9:15 Roger Brockett, Optimal Control
9:15 – 10:15 Marlan Scully, Quantum Control of Directionality of Collective Emission

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:15 Chris MonroeUltrafast control of trapped Ion Qubits
11:15 – 12:00 Mikhail Lukin, Quantum control of individual electron and nuclear spins in diamond lattice
12:00 – 3:00 Lunch Break

3:00 – 3:45 Paul Jessen, Quantum Control and Quantum State Estimation of Atomic Spin Ensembles
3:45 – 4:30 Chitra Rangan, Controllability and Information Processing in Infinite-dimensional Quantum Systems

4:30 – 4:45 Break

4:45 – 5:30 Witold Respondek, Non-integrability of the optimal control problem for n-level quantum systems

5:30 – 6:15 Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Quantum Computation for Quantum Chemistry

7:45 – 8:30 Breakfast, Lobby of Maxwell Dworkin

8:30 – 9:15 Navin Khaneja, Non-linear Controllabilty and Control of Inhomogeneous Spin Ensembles

9:15 – 10:15 David Tannor Quantum Control of Chemical Reactions

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:15 Gustav Gerber, Optimal Control of Photochemistry in the Gas Phase, Liquid Phase and on Surfaces

11:15 – 12:00 Tom Weinacht, Understanding strong field closed loop learning control experiments.

12:00 – 3:00 Lunch Break
3:00 – 3:45 Seth Lloyd, Robustness of Adiabatic Quantum Computing
3:45 – 4:30 Michael Nielsen, Quantum Control and Quantum Gate Complexity

4:30 – 4:45 Break

4:45 – 5:30 Lorenza Viola, Quantum Dynamical Decoupling with Unconventional Controllers

5:30 – 6:15 T.J Tarn, System Theoretical Approach to Quantum Feedback Control of Decoherence

6:15 – 7:00 Discussion (Anthony Block and Tomasso Calarco)

7:45 – 8:30 Breakfast, Lobby of Maxwell Dworkin

8:30 – 9:15 Roger Brockett, Geometric Control
9:15 – 10:15 Charlie Marcus, Quantum Control of Electron Spins

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:15 Frank Wilhelm, Optimizing One and Two-Qubit gates for Superconducting Architectures

11:15 – 12:00 David Cory, Magnetic resonance examples of coherent control

12:00 – 3:00 Lunch Break

3:00 – 3:45 Uwe Helmke, The Local C-numerical Range: A New Concept from Quantum Control

3:45 – 4:30 Thomas Schulte-Herbrueggen Quantum Control of Decoherence, time reversal and local C-numerical ranges
4:30 – 4:45 Break
4:45 – 5:30 Ramon Van Handel, Separation Theorems in Quantum Control
5:30 – 6:15 Jacob Taylor, Single Spins in Mesoscopic Environment from Quantum Control to Quantum Information