TopMath Events

TopMath Talk
Public talks, usually on Thursday evenings  (MI building, Campus Garching) 

See TopMath news page for details.

Upcoming Events

December 3rd, 2013
QCCC is inviting to the 5th ENB Forum, in the Grand Aula of LMU with three lectures by our guests Dr. Frank Schirrmacher, Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller and Dr. Richard von Schirach on the topic "Big Data and Responsability".

Some Past Events

October 17th - 21st, 2013
QCCC Closing Symposium and Workshop on Campus Garching / in Prien am Chiemsee

September 9th, 2013
Three lectures on "Quantum Measurement Theory" by Rob Spekkens, Paul Busch and Teiko Heinosaari, supported by QCCC.

July 19th, 2013
Business Meeting regarding the 4th QCCC Workshop in Prien.

July 5th, 2013
Seminar by Daniel Reitzner on "Quantum Measurements and Joint Measurability".

May 14th, 2013
Seminar by Thorsten Wahl on "Localizable Entanglement & Gaussian Fermionic PEPS".

February 18th/19th, 2013
QCCC & TMP Block Course by Michael Keyl on "Quantum Information Theory in Infinite Dimensions: An Operator-Algebra Approach".

February 14th, 2013
Seminar by Oleg Szehr on "Spectral Convergence Bounds for Finite Classical and Quantum Markov Chains".

February 8th, 2013
Seminar by Michael Keyl on "Mathematical Physics with \hbar".

February 8th, 2013
Inaugural Lecture by Michael Wolf on "Short Stories from Quantum Information Theory".

January 9th, 2013
TUM Mathematics Colloquium by David Gross on "Compressed Sensing and Matrix Completion: From Single Pixel Cameras to Quantum State Tomography".

December 7th, 2012
Seminar by David Reeb on "Fault-Ignorant Algorithms".

November 30th, 2012
Seminar by Marc Cheneau on "Spin Physics in Optical Lattices".

October 19th, 2012
Seminar by Christian Sames on "Controllable Single‐Atom Phase Shifter Working in the Single‐Photon Level".

September 7th, 2012
Seminar by Daniel Lercher on "Gaussian superactivation requires squeezing".

August 31st, 2012
Seminar by Juan Bermejo on "A Gottesman-Knill Theorem for all Finite Abelian Groups".

June 29th, 2012
Seminar by Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen on "Reachability under Noise Control".

June 28th, 2012
Seminar by Prof. Mark Sherwin from Santa Barbara on "Extreme Optics in Semiconductors: When Quasiparticles Collide, and 1+1=11".

June 6th, 2012
Seminar by Dr Oleg Szehr on "Perturbation Theory for Fixed Points of Quantum Channels".

June 5th, 2012
Seminar by Dr David Gross.

April 13th, 2012
Seminar by Dr Markus Grassl on "Polynomial Invariants of Three-Qubit Systems".

October 7th - 10th, 2011
3rd QCCC Workshop in Bernried

September, 4th - 9th, 2011
Invitation to the Coqus Summer School.

September, 4th - 9th, 2011
Invitation to the Heraeus Summer School "Modern Statistical Methods in QIP", 22-26 August 2011, Bad Honnef.

July 22nd, 2011
Seminar by Michael-James Kastoryano on Convergence of Quantum Processes: going beyond the gap .

July 19th, 2011
ENB Forum: From the Nobel Prize to Being Entrepreneur
Lectures by

  • Theodor W. Hänsch: Passion for Precision
  • Ronald Holzwarth: Firmerngründung mit Nobelpreistechnologie

June 27th, 2011
Seminar by Bogdan Pirvu on MPS-Simulations of Translationally Invariant Spin Chains with Periodic Boundary Conditions.

June 7th, 2011
Seminar by Christian Gogolin on Thermalization in nature and on a quantum computer .

June 6th, 2011
Seminar by Volkher B. Scholz on Information theoretic questions on von-Neumann algebras.

May 31st, 2011
Guided Lab Tour.

March 29th, 2011
Seminar by John Marriott on Optimal control theory and its application to maximizing contrast in magnetic resonance imaging.

March 10th, 2011
Seminar by Christine Tobler on A Matlab toolbox for tensors in hierarchical Tucker format and its application to the solution of high-dimensional linear systems.

December 21st, 2010
Seminar by Boris Khoromskij on Quantics-TT approach to high-dimensional SPDEs and to DMRG in quantum molecular dynamics.

December 20th, 2010
Seminar by Yuval Sanders on Relative quantifiers of quantum informational resources.

December 15th, 2010
Seminar by Xinhua Peng on Spin qubits for quantum simulation – Simulating physical phenomena on a quantum computer.

December 15th, 2010
Seminar by Martin Plenio on Describing system environment interactions in the non-perturbative regime.

October 22nd, 2010
Seminar by Haidong Yuan on Optimal Control of Quantum Systems.

September 24th, 2010
Seminar by Corey O'Meara on Geometric Properties of Special Classes of Completely Positive Linear Maps.

August 20th, 2010
Seminar by Patrick Rebentrost on The Role of Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Energy Transfer.

July 22nd, 2010
Workshop on Optomechanics (programme)

July 16th, 2010
Seminar by Frank Wilhelm on Quantum optics on a chip - photon counters and NOON states.

June 18th, 2010
Seminar by Noomen Belmechri on Single atom interferometry with neutral atoms in a state-selective 1D optical lattice.

May 27th, 2010
Seminar by Prof. M. Christandl on The Uncertainty Principle in the Presence of Quantum Memory.

May 21st, 2010
Seminar by Dr. Robert Zeier on Dynamical Quantum Systems: Controllability, Symmetries, and Representation Theory

March 1st, 2010
Seminar by Dr. Ilya Kuprov on "Squeezing the Matrix: efficient spin dynamics simulation algorithms".

February 18th, 2010
Seminar by Prof. Bernard Bonnard on "The Energy Minimization Problem in the Control of Dissipative Spin-1/2 Particles".

January 14th, 2010
Seminar by Prof. Jr-Shin Li on Ensemble Controllability and by Justin Ruths on A Pseudospectral Method for Optimal Control of Open Quantum Systems

January 15th, 2010
Seminar by Corey O'Meara on Schur Maps and Self-Dual Quantum Channels

December 11th, 2010
Seminar by Volkher Scholz on Anderson Localization in Disordered Quantum Walks

December 4th, 2009
Seminar by Shai Machnes on "Optimal control for superfast cooling of trapped ions, using a Matlab toolbox for quantum information calculations"

November 20th, 2009
Seminar by Prof. Mikio Nakahara on Topological Quantum Computing with p-Wave Superfluid

October 10th - 14th, 2009
2nd QCCC Workshop in Bad Tölz

September 18th, 2009
Seminar by Fernando Pastawski on How Long Can Passive Quantum Memories Withstand Depolarizing Noise?

September 11th, 2009
Seminar by Sebastian Nauerth on the Exploration of Side Channels in our BB84 Freespace Quantum Key Distribution System

September 8th, 2009
Seminar by Pierre de Fouquieres on Limitations of Quantum Optimal Control.

July 30th, 2009
Seminar by Louis H. Kauffman on Topological Quantum Information Theory.

July 23rd, 2009
Seminar by Howard Carmichael on "Open Quantum Systems: Cavity QED with Dissipation".

April 30th, 2009
Seminar by Mercedes Rosas on The Reduced Kronecker Coefficients of the Symmetric Group.

April 22nd, 2009
Seminar by Wu Xing on "Experiments on a Superconducting Atom Chip".

March 26th, 2009 (MPQ seminar)
Seminar by Dmitry Yudin on Dynamics of a dilute Fermi-Bose condensed gas mixture.

March 13th, 2009
Seminar by Matthias Christandl on Post-selection technique for quantum channels with applications to quantum cryptography.

March 11th, 2009
Seminar by Matthew B. Hastings on "A Counterexample to Additivity of Minimum Output Entropy" (How to kill a most famous conjecture in quantum information - alternative title, not by the author).

January 16th, 2009
Seminar by Angela Meyer on Localisable Entanglement of 1D Cluster States.

January 9th, 2009
Seminar by Dominique Sugny on Geometric optimal control of dissipative quantum systems.

November 19th, 2008
Seminar by Ulrich Schollwöck on Disentangling Many-Body Quantum Systems and Large-Scale Linear Algebra.

November 14th, 2008
Seminar by Andreas Eberlein on The Charge-Density Wave Behaviour in the t-J-Holstein Model.

October 23rd, 2008
Seminar by Guifre Vidal on Entanglement Renormalization.

September 8 - 12th, 2008
Summer School "Complex Quantum Systems" hosted as a CoQuS-QCCC get-together by the CoQuS Phd programme of excellence at the University of Vienna.

August 28th, 2008
Seminar by Peter Pemberton-Ross on Controllability of Spin Systems.

August 13th, 2008
Seminar by Anne Nielsen on State Preparation by Means of Optical Measurements

August 5th, 2008
Seminar by Daniel Burgarth on Quantum Control of Coupled Spin Systems: Algebraic and Open System Approach

July 21st, 2008
Guest lecture by Louis H. Kauffman on Quantum Computing and Quantum Topology

July 12th, 2008
Elite-Cup 2008 (ENB soccer tournament) in Neufahrn near Freising

June 4th, 2008
QCCC Miniworkshop on "Mathematical Control Theory and Quantum Applications" (with TopMath)

June 2nd, 2008
Talk by Amr Fahmy on "Thermal State Quantum Computing"

May 5 - 10th, 2008
Guest professor Marek Zukowski

Marhc 31 - April 4th, 2008
Guest professor Reinhard Werner

October 27 - 30th, 2007
QCCC Workshop on "Foundations and Future Prospects of QIP"
For details see the workshop page.