CMI Enterprisers
Josh Jacobs
Wed Jan 5 thru Wed Jan 12, 08am-10:00pm, Durham, England
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 28-Oct-2004
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: For MIT undergraduates
CMI Enterprisers is a week-long residential retreat at Durham University in England that builds self-confidence, creativity, and networks to allow participants to create new enterprises, whether corporate or social. The program is free and open to MIT undergraduates in any course; it is not related to the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. Other participants are from UK universities. Preference will be given to students with interest and some experience in building a new venture, whether it be a student organization, business, or other activity. Up to 10 will be selected. Info session with free food and past participants: Tuesday 26 October, 5:30-6:30 PM, 8-403. Applications due to the website listed on Thursday 28 October.
Web: http://www.cmi-enterprisers.org
Contact: Josh Jacobs, 8-403, x3-2959, jsjacobs@mit.edu
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Feedback Control of NMR Spin Systems: A Control-Theoretic Perspective
Claudio Altafini, SISSA-ISAS International School for Advanced Studies
Tue Jan 11, Wed Jan 12, Tue Jan 18, Wed Jan 19, 10:30am-12:00pm, NW14-1112
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Assuming that ensemble measurements can be performed in real time, the control of an NMR spin system can be studied within the paradigm of classical control theory. Adopting this perspective, these lectures will discuss several aspects of the "state manipulation problem", including controllability, model-based open loop control, real-time state estimation (tomography) based on incomplete and/or noisy data, and the synthesis of feedback mechanisms which can stabilize the system within a desired state.
Web: http://www.sissa.it/~altafini
Contact: Timothy F. Havel, NW14-2218, (617) 253-8309, tfhavel@mit.edu
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On the Duality Between Quantum States and Quantum Maps
Karol Zyczkowski Perimeter Institute - Waterloo, Ontario and Institute of Phy
Tue Jan 18, Wed Jan 19, 09-10:30am, NW14-1112
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
These lectures will describe the theory of positive maps and its applications to quantum entanglement, in particular: (1) Positive, completely positive (CP), and completely co-positive (CcP) maps;
(2) Characterization of a map by its dynamical (or Choi) matrix;
(3) Dual cones and superpositive maps;
(4) The Jamiolkowski isomorphism between CP-maps and density matrices on an extended Hilbert space;
(5) An analogous relation between classical maps and discrete probability distributions;
(6) Decomposable maps and the Stormer-Woronowicz theorem;
(7) The positive partial transpose criterion for separability;
(8) Unistochastic operations determined by unitary matrices of an extended dimensionality.
Contact: Tim Havel, NW14-2218, (617) 253-8309, tfhavel@mit.edu
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