| Date | Who | Topic |
| 19 Feb 02 | Aram Harrow | Communication cost of entanglement dilution. See quant-ph/9511030, quant-ph/9902045, quant-ph/9707038. |
| 26 Feb 02 | Lin Tian | M. Nielsen, Universal quantum computation using only projective measurement, quantum memory, and preparation of the 0 state, quant-ph/0108020. See also Nature 402, 390 (1999) and quant-ph/0111122. |
| 5 Mar 02 | Enrico Deotto | Quantum search by measurement. |
| 12 Mar 02 | Bill Kaminsky | Smelyanskiy and Toussaint, Number partitioning via adiabatic quantum computation, quant-ph/0202155. |
| 19 Mar 02 | Andrew Childs | S. Wiesner, Conjugate coding, SIGACT News 15, 77 (1983). |
| 26 Mar 02 | Spring break - no meeting. | |
| 2 Apr 02 | Wim van Dam | Quantum communication complexity of the disjointness problem. References: quant-ph/9802040, Ambainis et al., Razborov. |
| 9 Apr 02 | No meeting - Kitaev talk ran late. | |
| 16 Apr 02 | Aram Harrow | Solovay-Kitaev |
| 23 Apr 02 | Sasha Wait | Teleportation |
| 30 Apr 02 | Adam Smith | Bit commitment. References: primarily quant-ph/9711065 but optionally also quant-ph/9712023, quant-ph/9806031, another paper or even quant-ph/0109055, |