The Retreat is an educational activity, with pedagogical and overview lectures geared towards newcomers to the field. In addition, it is intended to provide an opportunity for new students in the field to become acquainted with their peers from other research groups and to establish grass roots connections between the increasing number of research groups active in this field -- hence the name: Summer School and Retreat.

Chair

Todd Brun

Co-Chairs

Ivan Deutsch (UNM) and JM Geremia (CalTech)

Student Members

• Bilal Shaw– graduate student in Computer Science, USC
• Anthony Miller – graduate student in Physics, Caltech
• Seth Merkel – graduate student in Physics, UNM

Speakers

• Todd Brun (USC) - The "big picture" - Basics of Quantum Information
• Carl Caves (UNM) - Where does quantum computing get it's power?
• Ivan Deutsch (UNM)- Quantum computing with atoms and ions
• JM Geremia (Caltech) - Quantum measurement: Theory and Experiment
• Gavin Brennen (NIST) - Cluster states and cellular automata
• Richard Hughes (LANL) - Quantum key distribution
• Dave Bacon (SFI) - Quantum algorithms
• Andrew Landahl (MIT) - Quantum Error Correction
• Salman Habib (LANL) - Quantum chaos

Program

Wednesday 6 July 2005
1500-1900 Check in to rooms
1900-2100 Welcome BBQ, registration

Thursday 7 July 2005
0730-0900    Breakfast
0900-0930    Welcoming remarks and information
0930-1030    The "big picture"-Basics of Quantum Information 1 (Todd Brun)
1030-1100    Break
1100-1200    Basics of Quantum Information 2 (Todd Brun)
1200-1430    Lunch break
1430-1530    Entanglement and the Power of Quantum Computation 1 (Carl Caves)
1530-1545    Break
1545-1645    Entanglement and the Power of Quantum Computation 2 (Carl Caves)
1645-1700    Break
1700-1800    Quantum Key Distribution 1 (Richard Hughes)
1800-1930    Dinner break
1930-2030    Quantum Key Distribution 2 (Richard Hughes)

Friday 8 July 2005
0730-0900    Breakfast
0930-1030    Quantum Algorithms 1 (Dave Bacon)
1030-1100    Break
1100-1200    Quantum Algorithms 2 (Dave Bacon)
1200-1300    Lunch
1300-1800    Excursion to King Tut exhibit at LA County Museum of Art
1800-1900    Dinner (a box dinner for those who go on the excursion)
1900-2000    Quantum computing with atoms and ions (Ivan Deutsch)
2000-2015    Break
2015-2115    Quantum Measurement 1:  Theory (JM Geremia)

Saturday 9 July 2005
0730-0900    Breakfast
0930-1030    Quantum Measurement 2:  Experiment (JM Geremia)
1030-1100    Break
1100-1200    The Quantum to Classical Transition (Salman Habib)
1200-1300    Lunch
1300-1800    Excursion to 3rd Street Pier, Santa Monica
1800-1900    Dinner
1900-2000    Quantum Error Correction 1 (Andrew Landahl)
2000-2015    Break
2015-2115    Quantum Error Correction 2 (Andrew Landahl)

Sunday 10 July 2005
0730-0900    Breakfast
0900-1000    Quantum Chaos (Salman Habib)
1000-1100    Cluster states and cellular automata 1 (Gavin Brennen)
1100-1130    Break
1130-1230    Cluster states and cellular automata 2 (Gavin Brennen)
1230-1400    Lunch

Participants

• Allen, Ned, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Beaird, Robert, Louisiana State University
• Blakestad, Brad, NIST Boulder
• Boixo, Sergio, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Clark, Robert, MIT
• Cook, Robert, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Czakon, Nicole G., Caltech
• Datta, Animesh, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Denney, Aaron, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Di Rosa, Michael, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Elliott, Matt, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Faraon, Andrei, Stanford University
• Franko, Jennifer, Indiana University
• Gopalkrishnan, Manoj, University of Southern California
• Grados, Robert, University of Southern California
• Greenbaum, Benjamin, Columbia University
• Hagge, Tobias, Indiana University
• Hayes, David, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Hosten, Onur, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
• Hsieh, Min-Hsiu, University of Southern California
• Huver, Sean, Louisiana State University
• Keyes, Roy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Krovi, Hari, University of Southern California
• Ku, Zahyun, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Leary, Cody, University of Oregon
• Merkel, Seth, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Miller, Anthony, Caltech
• Mottonen, Mikko, University of California, Berkeley
• Oreshkov, Ognyan, University of Southern California
• Owens, Israel J., Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Oza, Neal N., University of California, Santa Barbara
• Partridge, Syd, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Pattanayak, Arjendu, Carleton College
• Raghunathan, Shesha, University of Southern California
• Rangarajan, Radhika, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
• Rappert, Iris, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Rice, Pat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Roumpos, Georgios, Stanford University
• Shaw, Bilal, University of Southern California
• Shaw, Matthew, University of Southern California
• Shende, Vivek, University of California, Berkeley
• Strain, Doug, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Trail, Collin M., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Varbanov, Martin, University of Southern California
• Vinjanampathy, Sai, Louisiana State University

Lecturers

• Bacon, David, University of Washington
• Brennen, Gavin, NIST
• Brun, Todd, University of Southern California
• Caves, Carl, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Deutsch, Ivan, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Geremia, J.M., Caltech
• Habib, Salman, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Hughes, Richard, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Landahl, Andrew, MIT