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.
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