ICMS

Quantum Probability, Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Information

Jan 16, 2012 - Jan 18, 2012

ICMS, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AA

Organisers

Name	Institution
Belton, Alexander	Lancaster University
Dritschel, Michael	University of Newcastle
Lindsay, Martin	Lancaster University
Sinha, Kalyan	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

The final meeting of the UKIERI Research Network.

Over the past four years the UKIERI Researach Network Quantum Probability, Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Information has undertaken fundamental research in quantum probability and noncommutative geometry, and developed new applications in quantum information and quantum control. It has built upon and strengthened links between leading researchers from across India and the UK, and has led to new and higher levels of engagement between these two countries. This final meeting will allow research findings to be presented, new developments to be discussed and further collaborations to be planned. Distinguished speakers from inside and outside the network will take part, and there will also be opportunities for younger researchers to present their work.

The meeting will consist of invited speakers and registered participants, and will be limited to 40 people. The event is sponsored by the British Council's UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI).
 

Arrangements

Please note that this workshop will commence with Registration at lunchtime on Monday 16 January to enable UK and some European participants to travel to Edinburgh in the morning of that day.  The workshop will close late afternoon on Wednesday 18 January to allow for travel home that evening. 

Participation
Participation is by invitation only.  Invited Speakers and Participants will receive an email which will have a link to a personalised on-line registration form.

Venue
The workshop will be held at 15 South College Street, Edinburgh.  You may also find this map useful for the workshop.  All lectures will be held in the Newhaven Lecture Theatre.  To view this room and a list of the visual equipment available click here.  In addition, two blackboards have recently been installed.  The projector and one board may be used simultaneously.  

Travel
Information about travel to the UK and Edinburgh is available here.  This map may also be useful.

Please note that it is your responsibility to have adequate travel insurance to cover medical and other emergencies (volcanic ash disruptions) that may occur on your trip.

A taxi directly from the airport will cost approximately 15.00 to 20.00 GBP to the city centre for a one-way journey.     There is also a bus service direct from the airport to the city centre which will cost 3.50 single or 6.00 GBP return - the Airlink 100.  This is a frequent service (every 10 minutes during peak times) and will bring you close to Waverley Railway Station, only a short walk to the accommodation and the workshop venue (see map in 'Venue' section above). 

Lothian buses charge £1.30 for a single, £3.20 for a day ticket. Please note that the exact fare is required and no change is given.

If travelling by train, please note that Edinburgh has two railway stations - Waverley Railway Station being the main station and closest to the workshop venue at 15 South College Street. If you alight at Edinburgh Waverley, the workshop venue is an easy 10 minute walk over North and South Bridge. The second railway station is called Haymarket and is at the West End of the city centre.

Accommodation
Please refer to your individual invitation email for information about accommodation.   Those staying from Monday onwards will be housed in Masson House at Pollock Halls of Residence.  Unless otherwise notified by email, those arriving before Monday will be housed until the Sunday night at the Minto Hotel, moving to Masson House at Pollock Halls on the Monday.   Please click here for a map showing the location of both Masson House and the Minto Hotel.  

Catering
Refreshments will be provided during the coffee breaks for the duration of the event.  The workshop will commence with Registration and a light lunch in the Chapterhouse of 15 South College Street.  It is intended that lunch will be provided on all days of the workshop. There will be a conference dinner at Blonde Restaurant, 75 St Leonards Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9QR on Tuesday 17 January at 19.30.  

Wireless Access
On arrival at Registration you will be given instructions and a code for accessing the wireless network.  For those without laptops, there will also be a couple of computers available for you to check your emails. 

Financial Matters
The UKIERI grant will cover the cost of bed and breakfast accommodation for participants.  Refreshments and lunch will be also be provided each day.

 

Programme

To download a PDF file of the abstracts for this workshop, please click here

Monday 16 January

11.30-12.45	Registration opens
12.45-13.45	Lunch in Chapterhouse, Level 1
13.45-14.00	Martin Lindsay - Welcome and opening remarks
	Session chair: Alexander Belton
14.00-14.40	Uwe Franz                 Lévy processes on compact quantum groups and their symmetries
14.45-15.10	Claus Köstler Quantum coin tosses and their central limit theorems
15.15-15.40	Biswarup Das Quantum stochastic dilation of Markov semigroups on compact quantum groups
15.45-16.15	Coffee/Tea in Chapterhouse, Level 1
	Session Chair: Rajarama Bhat
16.15-16.40	Alexander Belton Multiplier cocycles and quantum Feynman–Kac formulae
16.45-17.10	Kalyan Sinha Stochastic Trotter–Kato-type product formula

Tuesday 17 January

	Session chair: Robin Hudson
09.00-09.40	Giovanni Landi Geometry of quantum projective spaces
09.45-10.10	Jyotishman Bhowmick                                            Quantum groups of unitaries and quantum gauge groups
10.15-10.40	Adam Skalski On some quantum symmetry groups related to liberations
10.45-11.15	Coffee/Tea in Chapterhouse, Level 1
	Session chair: Adam Skalski
11.15-11.40	Srinivasan Raman Hilbert von Neumann modules
11.45-12.10	Tirtha Bhattacharyya Operators with the symmetrised bidisc as a spectral set
12.15-12.40	Sourav Pal A functional model and a complete unitary invariant of a Γ contraction
12.45-14.00	Lunch in Chapterhouse, Level 1
	Session chair: Tirtha Bhattacharyya
14.00-14.40	László Zsidó Non-commutative Wermer-type maximality theorems
14.45-15.10	Volkher Scholz Tsirelson's problem and Connes' embedding problem
15.15-15.40	Gadadhar Misra Homogeneous operators
15.45-16.15	Coffee/Tea in Chapterhouse, Level 1
	Session chair: Gadadhar Misra
16.15-16.40	Arup Chattopadhyay Koplienko trace formula for unbounded operators
16.45-17.10	Joachim Zacharias On topological versions of Rokhlin's lemma
19.30	Conference Dinner at Blonde Restaurant, 75 St Leonards Street, Edinburgh

 

Wednesday 18 January

	Session chair: Kalyan Sinha
09.00-09.40	Reinhard Werner Index theory of quantum cellular automata
09.45-10.10	Bernhard Neukirchen Continuous-time limit of repeated quantum observations
10.15-10.40	Mădălin Gută Asymptotic statistics for quantum Markov processes
10.45-11.15	Coffee/Tea in Chapterhouse, Level 1
	Session chair: Claus Köstler
11.15-11.40	Oliver Margetts Quasifree martingales
11.45-12.10	Stephen Wills Subordinate E-semigroups
12.15-12.40	Robin Hudson Quantum Lévy area as a quantum martingale limit
12.45-14.00	Lunch in Chapterhouse, Level 1
	Session chair: Mădălin Gută
14.00-14.40	Hans Maassen Entanglement of completely symmetric quantum states
14.45-15.10	John Gough Quantum feedback networks
15.15-15.40	Rolf Gohm Weak Markov processes as linear systems
15.45-16.15	Coffee/Tea in Chapterhouse, Level 1
	Session chair: Martin Lindsay
16.15-16.40	Slava Belavkin A representation theorem for noncommutative Itô algebras
16.45-17.10	Rajarama Bhat Roots of states
17.30	Conference ends

 

To download a PDF file of the abstracts for this workshop, please click here

 

Participants

Name	Institution
Alrashed, Maryam	Public Authority for Applied Education and Training
Barbarski, Pawel	University of Gdansk
Belavkin, Slava	Nottingham Univesrsity
Belton, Alexander	Lancaster University
Bhat, Rajarama B V	Indian Statistical Institute
Bhattacharyya, Tirthankar	Indian Institute of Science
Bhowmick, Jyotishman	University of Oslo
Catana, Catalin	University of Nottingham
Chattopadhyay, Arup	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research
Das, Bata Krishna	Lancaster University
Das, Biswarup	Lancaster University
Franz, Uwe	Université de Franche-Comté
Gnacik, Michal	Lancaster University
Gohm, Rolf	Aberystwyth University
Gough, John	Aberystwyth University
Guta, Madalin	University of Nottingham
Hawkins, Andrew	University of Nottingham
Hudson, Robin	Loughborough University
Jones, Paul	Loughborough University
Koestler, Claus	Aberystwyth University
Landi, Giovanni	University of Trieste
Lindsay, Martin	Lancaster University
Maassen, Hans	Radboud University Nijmegen
Margetts, Oliver	Lancaster University
Misra, Gadadhar	Indian Institute of Science
Mukherjee, Mithun	Lancaster University
Neukirchen, Bernhard	Leibniz Universität Hannover
Pal, Sourav	Indian Institute of Science
Raman, R Srinivasan	Chennai Mathematical Institute
Scholz, Volkher	Leibniz University Hannover
Shyam Roy, Subrata	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Sinha, Kalyan	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Skalski, Adam	Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Tylec, Tomasz	University of Gdansk
van Horssen, Merlijn	University of Nottingham
Werner, Reinhard	Leibniz Universität Hannover
Wills, Stephen	University College Cork
Zacharias, Joachim	University of Nottingham
Zsidó, László	Universita' di Roma