Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA
January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1077

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Saturday January 7, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Theory of Control of Quantum Systems, I
  Clarendon, 3rd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Francesca Albertini, University of Padua
  Domenico D'Alessandro, Iowa State University daless@iastate.edu
  Raffaele Romano, University of Trieste
  Francesco Ticozzi, University of Padua
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quantum Circuits at Nash Equilibrium.
    Faisal Shah Khan*, Khalifa University
    Simon J. D. Phoenix, Khalifa University
    (1077-81-745)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Engineering Pointer States in Open Quantum Systems.
    Lorenza Viola*, Dartmouth College
    (1077-93-1544)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Encoded weak quantum Zeno effect for quantum computation and control.
    Gerardo A. Paz-Silva, University of Southern California
    Ali T. Rezakhani, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran
    Jason M. Dominy*, University of Southern California
    Daniel A. Lidar, University of Southern California
    (1077-93-2078)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stabilization of stochastic quantum dynamics via open and closed loop control.
    Francesco Ticozzi*, University of Padova and Dartmouth College
    (1077-93-619)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Real-time feedback control of a mesoscopic superposition.
    Kurt Jacobs*, University of Massachusetts at Boston
    Justin Finn, University of Massachusetts at Boston
    Sai Vinjanampathy, University of Massachusetts at Boston
    (1077-00-270)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convergence of quantum random walks with decoherence.
    Sheng Xiong*, Edward Waters College
    Shimao Fan, Temple University
    Zhiyong Feng, Philadelphia, PA
    Wei-Shih Yang, Temple University
    (1077-81-1273)
• Saturday January 7, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Theory of Control of Quantum Systems, II
  Clarendon, 3rd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Francesca Albertini, University of Padua
  Domenico D'Alessandro, Iowa State University daless@iastate.edu
  Raffaele Romano, University of Trieste
  Francesco Ticozzi, University of Padua
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Are traps lurking on quantum control landscapes to impede reaching the objective?
    Herschel Rabitz*, Princeton University
    (1077-81-1511)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Gradient flow in quantum control problems and the role of singular controls.
    Ruixing Long*, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
    (1077-49-680)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Indirect controllability of quantum systems; General Lie algebraic conditions and some special cases.
    Domenico D'Alessandro*, Iowa State University
    Raffaele Romano, Department of Physics, Universita' di Trieste, Italy
    (1077-93-624)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symmetry Principles in Quantum Systems Theory with Applications in Simulation and Control.
    Thomas Schulte-Herbrueggen*, TU-Munich (TUM)
    (1077-49-349)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Controllability with Periodic Pulsing.
    Philip Owrutsky*, Harvard University
    Navin Khaneja, Harvard University
    (1077-93-1992)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Adiabatic control of the Schroedinger equation via conical intersections of the eigenvalues.
    Ugo Boscain*, CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, and INRIA team GECO
    Mario Sigalotti, INRIA team GECO, CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique
    Paolo Mason, LSS-Supelec, CNRS
    Francesca Chittaro, DIGITEO, CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique
    (1077-81-1512)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Weakly coupled bilinear quantum systems.
    Thomas Chambrion*, IECN, INRIA, Nancy University
    (1077-93-37)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Control by quantum dynamics on graphs.
    Chris Godsil, University of Waterloo
    Simone Severini*, University College London
    (1077-05-1906)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On efficiency of Hamiltonian--based quantum computation for low--rank matrices.
    Zhenwei Cao*, Virginia Tech
    Alexander Elgart, Virginia Tech
    (1077-81-2783)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion