This seminar was established by Alexander Frei and Laura Mančinska, and currently running by Laura Mančinska, David Roberson and Taro Spirig.
If you wish to be added to the mailing list and for more infos, feel free to contact:
Laura Mancinska or David Roberson or Taro Spirig
May 6, 2025:
Itay Shalit, Clifford strategies in interactive protocols are classically simulatable, slides
April 8, 2025:
Pieter Spaas, Gap-preserving reductions from synchronous games to independent set games, slides
March 25 - April 1, 2025:
Yuming Zhao, Stability of anti-commutation relation: from groups to algebras, slides
March 11, 2025:
David Roberson, Projective Packing Number: An operational interpretation and an open problem, slides
March 4, 2025:
Xingjian Zhang, Unconditional quantum magic advantage in shallow circuit computation, slides
February 20, 2025:
Sam Harris, Reducing synchronous games to 3-coloring games in near-perfect setting
February 13, 2025:
Honghao Fu, The effect of noise on MIP*, slides
January 16, 2025:
Victoria Snow, Algebras associated with non-local games, slides
December 12, 2024:
Ranyiliu Chen, Complex self-testing, slides
December 5, 2024:
Eric Culf, RE-completeness of entangled constraint satisfaction problems, ref, slides
November 27 , 2024:
Matthijs Vernooij, Lifting assumptions for robust self-testing, slides
October 15, 2024:
Amaury Freslon, Quantum groups and non-local games
October 10 and 17, 2024:
Sigurd Storgaard, Parallel repetition and self-testing, slides
October 3, 2024:
Li Liu, Yuming Zhao, A brief introduction to the GNS construction, slides
September 26, 2024:
Simon Schmidt, A bound on the quantum value of compiled nonlocal games, ref, slides
August 22, 2024:
Victor Barizien, Quantum statistics in the minimal scenario, ref, slides
June 20, 2024:
Tina Zhang, Succinct arguments for QMA from standard assumptions via compiled nonlocal games, ref, slides
June 11, 2024:
Priyanga Ganesan, Nonlocal games with quantum input and output
June 4, 2024:
Kieran Mastel, Two prover perfect zero-knowledge for MIP*, ref, slides
May 28, 2024:
Ranyiliu Chen, Compiled nonlocal games, ref1, ref2, ref3, slides
May 21, 2024:
Itai Leigh, Free Non-locality, ref, slides
May 7, 2024:
Connor Paddock, Near-perfect strategies for constraint system nonlocal games and approximate representations, ref, slides
April 30, 2024:
Prem Nigam Kar, NPA hierarchy for graph isomorphism and homomorphism indistinguishability, slides
April 23, 2024:
David Cui, A computational Tsirelson's theorem for the value of compiled XOR games, ref, slides
April 16, 2024:
Harold Nieuwboer, The NPA hierarchy and non-local games, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, slides
April 9, 2024:
Li Liu, C*-model for infinite dimensional quantum systems, ref 1, ref 2, slides
March 19, 2024:
Daniel Gromada, Quantum symmetries of quantum channels
March 12, 2024:
Taro Spirig, Approximation algorithm for noncommutative constraint satisfaction problems, reference, slides
March 5, 2024:
Yuming Zhao, Positivity, sum of squares, and decision problems in quantum information, reference, slides
Feb 27, 2024:
Owidiusz Makuta, Network-based definition of genuine multipartite nonlocality, slides
Feb 20, 2024:
Sigurd Storgaard, Device-independent certification of 2log(d) bits of randomness
Feb 13, 2024:
Josse van Dobben de Bruyn, Graphs with trivial automorphism group and non-trivial quantum automorphism group, ref, slides
Feb 7, 2024:
Carlos Ortiz Marrero, Variational methods for computing non-local quantum strategies, reference here
Dec 14, 2023:
Manaswi Paraashar, Complexity of Boolean function via certificate games, reference here, slides here
Dec 7, 2023:
Arthur Mehta, Quantum delegation with an off-the-shelf device, reference here, slides here
Nov 30, 2023:
Sigurd Storgaard, Delegated quantum computation, reference here, slides here
Oct 30, 2023:
Prem Nigam Kar, Pauli braiding test (part3), reference here
Oct 23, 2023:
Prem Nigam Kar, Pauli braiding test (part2), reference here
Oct 16, 2023:
Prem Nigam Kar, Pauli braiding test (part1), reference here
Oct 9, 2023:
David Roberson, Quantum Perfect Matching, slides here
Oct 2, 2023:
Ranyiliu Chen, Lifting common assumptions in self-testing, slides here
Sept 28, 2023:
Randy (Junqiao Lin), Tracial embedded strategy, towards proving MIPco=coRE, slides here
June 20, 2023:
Led by Josse van Dobben de Bruyn, Paper reading: Rounding near-optimal strategies to strategies using maximally entangled states, eps 5
June 13, 2023:
Led by Pieter Spaasen, Paper reading: Rounding near-optimal strategies to strategies using maximally entangled states, eps 4
May 30, 2023:
Led by Freek Witteveen, Paper reading: Rounding near-optimal strategies to strategies using maximally entangled states, eps 3
May 23, 2023:
Led by Freek Witteveen, Paper reading: Rounding near-optimal strategies to strategies using maximally entangled states, eps 2
May 16, 2023:
Led by Peter Zeman, Paper reading: Rounding near-optimal strategies to strategies using maximally entangled states, eps 1
May 9, 2023:
J.P. McCarthy, A quantum Frutch theorem? slides here, appendix here
May 2, 2023:
Simon Schmidt, Polytope compatibility, reference here
April 25, 2023:
Laura Mančinska, Counterexamples in self-testing, slices here
April 18, 2023:
Jitendra Prakash, A Hierarchy of Multipartite Nonlocality and Device-Independent Effect Witnesses, slides here
March 21, 2023:
Yuming Zhao, An operator-algebraic formulation of self-testing, slides here
March 14, 2023:
Prem Nigam Kar: Transitive non-local games, slides here
March 7, 2023:
David Roberson: Group Invariant Quantum Latin Squares
Feb 21, 2023:
Freek Witteveen, Gowers-Hatami and CHSH, reference here
Feb 14, 2023:
Ranyiliu Chen, Robust pure self-testing implies robust mixed self-testing, part 2
Feb 1, 2023:
Simon Schmidt, Robust pure self-testing implies robust mixed self-testing, part 1
March 23, 2022:
Samuel Harris, Non-local games with equivalent winning strategies
March 16, 2022:
Jurij Volcic and Thor Gabelgaard Nielsen: Self-testing: quantum commuting model, part 2
March 9, 2022:
Jurij Volcic and Thor Gabelgaard Nielsen: Self-testing: quantum commuting model, part 1
February 17, 2022:
Adam Bene Watts: Noncommutative Nullstellensätze and Perfect Games
February 10, 2022:
David R. Lolck: Purity of strategies in self-testing, slides here
February 3, 2022:
Ranyiliu Chen, Seperation: complex and real quantum world, slides here
February 1, 2022:
Simon Schmidt, Robust self-testing
January 20, 2022:
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi, Generalization of CHSH, slides here
January 18, 2022:
Alexander Frei, Cqa^bs = cl( Cq^bs ) ?
January 6, 2022:
Rubén Martos Prieto, Bisynchronous games, part 2 (after Paulsen-Rahaman)
December 16, 2021:
Rubén Martos Prieto, Bisynchronous games (after Paulsen-Rahaman)
December 9, 2021:
David E. Roberson, Quantum coloring and independent sets
December 2, 2021:
Simon Schmidt, Graph isomorphism games
November 18, 2021:
Thor Gabelgaard Nielsen, Introduction to self-testing
November 11, 2021,
Alexander Frei, Russel's reduction, sums of projections, and the strong Tsirelson conjecture
October 28, 2021:
Thor Gabelgaard Nielsen, The I_3322 inequality, slides here
Oct 14 and Oct 28, 2021:
Juriij Volčič, Estimating values , slides here
Sep 24 and Oct 1, 2021:
Alexander Frei, Non-local games, slides here
[PSSTW-2016] Estimating quantum chromatic numbers
[Collins-Gisin-2004] Relevant two-qubit Bell inequality
[Pal-Vertesi-2009] Maximal violation of I3322
[AABST-2020] Scalable Bell inequalities and robust self-testing
[Russel-2020] Two-outcome synchronous correlation sets and the CEP
[Kruglyak-Rabanovich-Samoilenko-2002] On sums of projections
[Paulsen-Rahaman-2019] Bisynchronous games
[Harris-2017] Connes embedding problem for XOR-games
[Harris-2021] Synchronous games with isomorphic game algebras
[Dykema-Paulsen-Prakash-2019] Non-closure of the Set of Quantum Correlations via Graphs
[Musat-Rørdam-2020] Non-closure of quantum correlation matrices and factorizable channels ...
[Coladangelo-Stark-2020] An inherently infinite dimensional quantum correlation
[Coladangelo-Stark-2018] Unconditional separation of finite and infinite dim correlations (arxiv version of the above)
[Coladangelo-Stark-2018] Robust self-testing for linear constraint system games
[Cui-Mehta-Mousavi-Nezhadi-2019] A generalization of CHSH and the algebraic structure of optimal strategies
[Mancinska-Nielsen-Prakash-2021] Glued magic games self-test maximally entangled states
[Nielsen-2021] Convex self-testing of glued magic games (Master thesis)
[Nielsen-2020] Representation theoretic approach to robust self-testing
[Helton-Watts-2020] 3 player XOR-games with perfect quantum commuting implies perfect quantum tensor
[Helton-Klep-Watts-2020] Noncommutative Nullstellensätze and Perfect Games
[Cleve-Mittal-2014] Characterization of Binary Constraint System Games
[Cleve-Liu-Slofstra-2017] Perfect commuting-operator strategies for linear system games
[Cleve-Liu-Paulsen-2016] Perfect embezzlement of entanglement
[Cleve-Collins-Liu-Paulsen-2018] Constant gap for self-embezzlement
[Brannan-Ganesan-Harris-2020] Quantum-to-classical graph homomorphism game
[Brannan-Harris-Todorov-Turowska-2021] Synchronicity for quantum non-local games
[Bochniak-Kasprzak-Sołtan-2021] Quantum correlations on quantum spaces
Further suggestions.
[Harris-Kim-2018] Crossed products of operator systems
[Gao-Harris-Junge-2017] Quantum teleportation and superdense coding in operator algebras
2021 BIU Winter School: Cryptography in a Quantum World
Many interesting talks! ( slides and videos / lecture notes / etc )
2018 UC San Diego spring school: Quantum Computing
Lectures by Aharonov, Gosset and Vidick: slides and notes
Henry Yuen: homepage, Entanglement complexity, Youtube playlists
Quantum info courses: Advanced topics 2020, Quantum Computing 2021, Quantum Complexity and Cryptography 2022
Particular projects: LCS-games and sofic groups
Russo–Slofstra–Yuen: nonlocal podcast
2022 Isaac Goldbring, lecture series at Yonsei: Connes embedding <=> Kirchberg <=> Tsirelson => MIP*=RE
Very illuminating explanations: relation between Connes and Kirchberg, relation between Connes and continuous logic / MIP*=RE
2011 workshop in Chennai, India:
Gilles Pisier: Operator spaces
Vern Paulsen: Operator systems
Parthasarathy: Quantum entanglement
Andreas Winter: Quantum information
Youtube playlist and Springer proceedings (freely available)
William Slofstra at QuICS: Arkhipov's theorem
Richard Cleve:
Articles and preprints: useful collection
Quantum Information Processing: Lecture notes and Youtube recordings
Tobias Fritz: Tsirelson and Connes / Kirchberg: Banff 2012, Singapore 2011, Bonn 2010
Conferences and workshops:
IPAM 2022 Quantum Cryptography: upcoming summer school
IPAM 2022 Quantum Numerical: workshop
IPAM 2018 Quantitative Linear Algebra: tutorials, workshop I, workshop II, workshop III, culminating workshop
Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual:
Entanglement in Action 2022: workshop (perhaps online)
MPI Informatics in Saarbrücken:
Quantum Lecture Series: Thomas Vidick, Andrew Childs, Matthias Christandl, Renato Renner, Ashley Montanaro and Aram Harrow.)