Main Program
(All times are California time PST)
Speakers, please send slides to beyondiid2020@gmail.com
Monday, Nov. 9
8:50am - 9am — Welcome and introductory remarks (slides) — Mark M. Wilde
9am - 9:35am — A functional approach to the study of strong converses in quantum information theory (invited talk) (slides) — Nilanjana Datta
9:40am - 10:05am — Upper bounds on device-independent quantum key distribution rates and a revised Peres conjecture (slides) — Rotem Arnon-Friedman
10:10am - 10:35am — Second-order asymptotics of the partially smoothed conditional min-entropy & application to quantum compression (slides) — Dina Abdelhadi
10:35am - 10:50am — Break
10:50am - 11:15am — Energy-constrained discrimination of unitaries, quantum speed limits and a Gaussian Solovay-Kitaev theorem (slides) — Cambyse Rouzé
11:20am - 11:45am — Decay estimates for relative entropy along continuous time evolution (slides) — Marius Junge
11:50am - 12:15pm — Putting resource theories to work: Using thermomajorization to bound a molecular switch’s probability of switching (slides) — Nicole Yunger Halpern
12:15pm - 1:15pm — Break
1:15pm - 1:50pm — Sharp geometric and entropic inequalities (invited talk) (slides) — Thomas Courtade
1:55pm - 2:20pm — Non-additivity in classical-quantum wiretap channels (slides) — Arkin Tikku
2:20pm - 2:35pm — Break
2:35pm - 3:35pm — Open problems
Tuesday, Nov. 10
7:30am - 7:55am — Bounding the quantum capacity with flagged extensions, merged with Pursuing the fundamental limits for quantum communication (slides) — Marco Fanizza / Xin Wang
8:00am - 8:45am — Lightning talks
8:45am - 9am — Break
9am - 9:35am — Multimode quantum Gaussian observables: structure and capacities (invited talk) (slides) — Alexander Holevo
9:40am - 10:05am — The modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality for quantum spin systems: classical and commuting nearest neighbours interactions (slides) — Cambyse Rouzé
10:10am - 10:35am — Covariant quantum error correcting codes via reference frames (slides) — Yuxiang Yang
10:35am - 10:50am — Break
10:50am - 11:15am — General mixed state quantum data compression with and without entanglement assistance (slides) — Zahra Baghali Khanian
11:20am - 11:45am — How one-shot quantum Shannon theory saves holography (slides) — Chris Akers
11:50am - 12:15pm — New perspectives on covariant quantum error correction: quantum channel estimation and quantum resource theory (slides) — Sisi Zhou
12:15pm - 1:15pm — Break
1:15pm - 1:50pm — Testing and estimating discrete distributions under local information constraints (invited talk) (slides) — Jayadev Acharya
1:55pm - 2:20pm — Playing games with multiple-access channels (slides) — Felix Leditzky
Wednesday, Nov. 11
7:30am - 7:55am — One-shot inner bounds for the unassisted quantum multiple access channel via simultaneous decoding and rate splitting (slides) — Sayantan Chakraborty
8:00am - 8:45am — Lightning talks
8:45am - 9am — Break
9am - 9:35am — Quantum divergences using convex optimization (invited talk) (slides) — Hamza Fawzi
9:40am - 10:05am — Convergence rates for the quantum central limit theorem (slides) — Ludovico Lami
10:10am - 10:35am — Fault-tolerant coding for quantum communication (slides) — Alexander Müller-Hermes
10:35am - 10:50am — Break
10:50am - 12:15pm — Lagniappe session
12:15pm - 1:15pm — Break
1:15pm - 1:50pm — Direct and indirect causal effects – An information-theoretic perspective (invited talk) — Todd Coleman
1:55pm - 2:20pm — The quantum Wasserstein distance of order 1 (slides) — Giacomo de Palma
2:20pm - 2:35pm — Break
2:35pm - 3:09pm — Lightning talks
Thursday, Nov. 12
7:30am - 7:55am — Application of the resource theory of channels to communication scenarios (slides) — Ryuji Takagi
8:00am - 8:45am — Lightning talks
8:45am - 9am — Break
9am - 9:35am — From Wigner-Yanase-Dyson, to Audenaert-Datta and Carlen-Frank-Lieb (invited talk) (slides) — Haonan Zhang
9:40am - 10:05am — Computing capacity of channels with memory using neural estimation (slides) — Ziv Aharoni
10:10am - 10:35am — Asymptotic reversibility of thermal operations for interacting quantum spin systems via generalized quantum Stein's lemma (slides) — Philippe Faist
10:35am - 10:50am — Break
10:50am - 11:15am — On asymptotic state transformations of continuous variable resources, merged with Operational quantification of infinite-dimensional resources in quantum mechanics and beyond (slides 1 | slides 2)— Giovanni Ferrari / Bartosz Regula
11:20am - 11:45am — Geometric Renyi divergence and its applications in quantum channel capacities, merged with Chain rule for the quantum relative entropy (slides) — Kun Fang
11:50am - 12:15pm — Single-particle enhancement of the quantum multiple-access channel (slides) — Yujie Zhang
12:15pm - 1:15pm — Break
1:15pm - 1:50pm — Toward finite-blocklength analysis of LDPC coding performance in point-to-point and multiple access communication (invited talk) — Michelle Effros
1:55pm - 2:20pm — New methods for studying quantum capacity (slides) — Vikesh Siddhu
2:20pm - 2:35pm — Break
2:35pm - 3:09pm — Lightning talks
Friday, Nov. 13
7:30am - 7:55am — Finite block length analysis on quantum coherence distillation and incoherent randomness extraction (slides) — Masahito Hayashi
8:00am - 8:45am — Lightning talks
8:45am - 9am — Break
9am - 9:35am — Entropic proofs of Singleton bounds for quantum error-correcting codes (slides) — Andreas Winter
9:40am - 10:05am — When are adaptive strategies in asymptotic quantum channel discrimination useful? (slides) — Farzin Salek
10:10am - 10:35am — Quantum Brascamp-Lieb dualities (slides) — David Sutter
10:35am - 10:50am — Break
10:50am - 11:15am — Information storage capacity of interacting particle systems (slides) — Ziv Goldfeld
11:20am - 11:45am — Tools for one-shot information theory under convexity conditions — Mokshay Madiman
11:50am - 12:15pm — From communication complexity to an entanglement spread area law in the ground state of gapped local Hamiltonians (slides) — Anurag Anshu
12:15pm - 1:15pm — Break
1:15pm - 1:50pm — Information constrained optimal transport: from Talagrand, to Marton, to Cover (slides) — Xiugang Wu
1:55pm - 2:20pm — Universal recovery and p-fidelity in von Neumann algebras, merged with Recoverability for optimized quantum f-divergences (slides 1 | slides 2)— Nicholas LaRacuente / Li Gao
2:20pm - 2:25pm — End of conference / Farewell for now