Quantum Information

CS 6604

Spring 2022

Instructor: Jamie Sikora

Email: sikora@vt.edu (Please include "CS 6604" in the subject)

When: 11am - 12:15pm Tuesdays and Thursdays

Where: McBryde 655

Office hours: Wednesdays 4pm-5pm, Fridays 12pm-1pm. In-person (2160E Torgersen) and via Zoom.

Weekly syllabus sketch


We will closely follow the lecture notes by John Watrous (which can be found here)


Week 1: Covid break

Week 2: Math preliminaries

Week 3: Math and quantum preliminaries

Week 4: States, measurements, channels, and purifications

Week 5: Measurements and channels

Week 6: Semidefinite programming and applications

Week 7: Bit commitment and coin flipping

Week 8: Spring break

Week 9: Oblivious transfer and quantum money

Week 10: Entropy and compression

Week 11: Information theory

Week 12: Separable states, maps, and LOCC

Week 13: Entanglement measures

Week 14: Completely bounded norms

Week 15: Class presentations

Week 16 (half week): Class presentations